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  • Allocated Flow Diagramming: A Structured Process and Methods for Teaching Interactive Product Prototyping in Industrial Design

    Article thumbnail: Allocated Flow Diagramming: A Structured Process and Methods for Teaching Interactive Product Prototyping in Industrial Design
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    Description/Abstract:
    Interactive product prototyping has been widely taught in industrial design studio courses to prepare design students in dealing with dynamic interactions of using digital products. While it requires the integration of design and technology, the lack of systematic approaches of the studio curricula creates a great challenge for students who are not familiar with technology in creating interactive prototypes successfully. A theoretical framework is developed from the human-machine interaction model and the sequential flow of task analysis methods. Based on this framework, a human-machine interaction (HMI) flow diagram is proposed with which interaction elements, relationships, and flows are specified and categorized. The flow diagram is utilized to create a storyboard and an allocation flowchart subsequently. A structured design process based on these methods was applied to an interactive product design studio course in an undergraduate industrial design program. Students created working prototypes of interactive products, following the structured design process consisting of an HMI flow diagram, a storyboard, and an allocation flowchart. 104 students (87.4%) among 119 succeeded in translating their ideas to functioning circuits. 74 students (62.2%) successfully integrated electronics components into working physical prototypes while 30 students (25.2%) just made the circuits work. The structured design process makes a transition from initial ideation to programming smooth and incremental. This helps students without previous programming experience to understand the logic flow and to develop algorithms. The HMI flow diagram is useful for analysis, concept development, and the specification of interactions, and helps students to grasp the effect of interactive features on user experience.
    Creator/Author:
    Ghim, Yong-Gyun
    Submitter:
    Yong-Gyun Ghim
    Date Uploaded:
    12/05/2021
    Date Modified:
    12/05/2021
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Parallel Projections

    Article thumbnail: Parallel Projections
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    Description/Abstract:
    Parallel Projections investigates two types of postindustrial site: the architectural and the agricultural; it conflates (projections of and into) spaces as means of making visceral our intellectual comprehension of the relationships between materiality, surface, place and history. Parallel Projections is not meant for specific places but for specific kinds of spaces: defunct industrial buildings, abandoned urban edifices, and mechanized natural landscapes. The authors, living in places (Iowa and Ohio) that have both been radically altered by scalar economic shifts, adapt alien (guest) project components to their native (host) contexts. Both types of spaces, host and guest, as spaces of urban and rural abandonment, share surfaces that are compelling palimpsests. These surfaces are encrusted with nearly-obliterated histories, emptied by changes in production methods and habits of occupation and revealed by ghost texts. In opposition to the idea that these sites should be whitewashed and redrawn, the authors see them as grounds for new layers that can receive projections of phenomena from other postindustrial sites and as repositories for material evidence that deepens, rather than erases, the evidence of their pasts.
    Creator/Author:
    Goché, Peter and Krukowski, Samantha
    Submitter:
    Samantha Krukowski
    Date Uploaded:
    02/06/2019
    Date Modified:
    05/23/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-05
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • On the Substance of Absence: Filling the Historical Void

    Article thumbnail: On the Substance of Absence: Filling the Historical Void
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    Description/Abstract:
    A 1948 exhibition catalogue of the work of Alberto Giacommetti, with an essay by Jean-Paul Sartre, highlights the relationships between sculpture and psychoanalysis, phenomenology, existentialism.
    Creator/Author:
    Krukowski, Samantha
    Submitter:
    Samantha Krukowski
    Date Uploaded:
    02/06/2019
    Date Modified:
    05/23/2019
    Date Created:
    1994
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Bonnie Cashin: Designing The Foundation of Modern Fashion

    Article thumbnail: Bonnie Cashin: Designing The Foundation of Modern Fashion
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    Description/Abstract:
    An overview of Bonnie Cashin's life and work which led to the concept of lifestyle design in fashion during the mid to late 20th century, forming the foundation of contemporary sportswear design.
    Creator/Author:
    Sarofeen, George
    Submitter:
    George Sarofeen
    Date Uploaded:
    12/09/2014
    Date Modified:
    05/23/2019
    Date Created:
    2014-12-09
    License:
    All rights reserved