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  • Health Education that Breaks Through Language Barriers Prototyping and Evaluation of Childcare-related ICT Self-learning Resource –

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    This paper explores the findings of a study into the telecommunications environment in Mongolia. It was hoped that an effective self-learning resource for the prevention of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in infants for distribution to parents in that country could be created and evaluated using these findings. Based on a field survey conducted in Mongolia, the most effective format this resource should take was identified. A prototype was created that featured video taken from both a third-person and parent’s (first person) perspective. After further evaluation, this prototype is to undergo revisions that will be assessed in Japan and Mongolia before a final version is distributed utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT). It was found that a visual message that did not rely on written language was the most effective means of communicating the desired message. With input from nursing staff in Mongolia, the Sapporo City University School of Design and School of Nursing came to leverage their respective strengths to create an effective prototype that will be used as the basis for a resource for relaying this preventive information to the target audience.
    Creator/Author:
    Mikami, Tomoko; Anzai, Toshinori; Yakubo, Takanobu; Matsuura, Kazuyo, and Uemura, Kouta
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    01/30/2018
    Date Modified:
    05/23/2019
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • A Framework for Smart Servicescape: A Case of Smart Home Service Experience

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    Article
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    The rapid development of IoT technology has accelerated the growth of smart services. Despite the proliferation of smart services, academic research is still in its early stage particularly in terms of service experience and service design. Concerning a service experience viewpoint, it is essential to consider the context and environment of smart services, namely “smart servicescape,” as this can influence users’ entire experience. Moreover, the smart servicescape will have different characteristics due to the convergence of online and offline connected environments. With this background, this study aimed to propose a framework for the smart servicescape by identifying new dimensions that reflect the characteristics of smart services. Accordingly, an initial analytic framework of service experience blueprint was established on the basis of the conventional servicescape and service blueprinting. Twenty movie clips on smart home services officially produced by ICT corporations were collected, were analyzed through grounded theory, and were classified according to the analytic framework. Through a series of qualitative analysis, the framework structure was improved to make it more suitable for the smart servicescape. Finally, this study proposed a framework for the smart servicescape derived from the smart home service experience blueprint. The values of this framework can be identified in two aspects: (1) by identifying new dimensions to reflect the characteristics of smart services such as Smart device, Datascape, and Connected scape; and (2) by suggesting the structure of the service experience blueprint infused with the perspective of service experience, which consists of service encounters and the servicescape.
    Creator/Author:
    Kwon, Gyu Hyun; Kang, Hyo-Jin; Park, Eunohk, and Kim, Bora
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    01/30/2018
    Date Modified:
    05/23/2019
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Don Norman Keynote

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    IASDR 2017 Keynote- Design in the 21st Century: Complex Sociotechnical Systems Use Related Links URL to access presentation video Don Norman is Director of the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego. He is co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, former Vice President of Apple and former executive at Hewlett Packard. Norman serves as an IDEO Fellow, an honorary professor of Design and Innovation at Tongji University (Shanghai), and is an advisor or board member of numerous companies. At UC, San Diego, he served as chair of the Psychology Department and founder and chair of the Cognitive Science Department. At Northwestern University, he is the Breed Professor of Design, emeritus. He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of Industrial Design at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He has honorary degrees in psychology from the University of Padua (Italy) and in Design from the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands) and the University of the Republic of San Marino. He received a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from SIGCHI and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia). He is a member of the American National Academy of Engineering, and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Association for Computing Machinery, American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, and the Design Research Society. He serves on the Board of Trustees at IIT's Institute of Design in Chicago. He is well known for his books "The Design of Everyday Things," "Emotional Design," and "Living with Complexity." He lives at  www.jnd.org.
    Creator/Author:
    Dugan, Dan
    Submitter:
    Monica Salguero
    Date Uploaded:
    01/26/2018
    Date Modified:
    03/22/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Patient 360: Collaborating on Cancer Care

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    Article
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    *Use Related Links URL to access presentation video Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Premera Blue Cross show you how we conducted design research to build a collective understanding of the cancer care experience. We will provide detailed instructions, with checklists, on how to recreate a similar collaboration, including how we worked and what we worked on. You will walk away knowing how we shared skills and resources, built credibility and equal playing fields, and delivered research insights to both our organizations from multiple perspectives and vantage points. Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) brings together the leading research teams and cancer specialists from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children's and UW Medicine. Based in Seattle, SCCA is one of the top five Adult Cancer Care facilities in the United States as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. Shay Ghassemian, User Experience Designer in Digital Health, and Katie Rehfield, Patient Experience Specialist, will be facilitating this workshop. Premera Blue Cross is a not-for-profit health insurance company serving 2 million people across the United States. As the largest health plan in the Pacific Northwest, Premera offers a wide range of products for individuals and families, Medicare recipients, and employers ranging from small business to Fortune 100 companies. Irish Malig, Senior Manager of Experience Strategy, Robert Racadio, Design Research Manager, Design Strategists Sara Bell, Paul Braun, and Ryan Rosensweig, and Darci Brown, Healthcare Implementation Manager in Provider Experience, will all be facilitating this workshop. Presented by Shay Ghassemian and Robert Racadio
    Creator/Author:
    Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Premera Blue Cross
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    01/26/2018
    Date Modified:
    04/24/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Conference Exhibit: Dread & Desire- Urban Futures at the Scale of the Human Body

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    Article
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    It was late on a Friday evening. A great time to avoid crowds. Most people were dining and drinking, absorbing the city’s capacity for pleasure, or maybe relaxing at home. That left the supermarket to me and others whose lives are synchronized differently. But as I stumbled my way through those harshly lit corridors of obscene American consumption, I realized I was among some highly unusual company. In every aisle, there were people—people?—clad in blue uniforms with devices attached to their forearms and fingertips, cables and wires dangling, each methodically filling large specialized carts. These were not shoppers like me. They were employees of the grocery chain operating— operated by?—new software for online ordering and curbside pickup. Surely, this wasn’t such a strange scene in contemporary stores around the world. Yet, it did raise strange—radical? — possibilities: a specter of “before” for an unforeseeable and potentially unpleasant “after.” The unity of the human and the machine, not implanted but merged in the operation, made me wonder: Are they cyborgs? Incipient cyborgs? Is this still a supermarket? Or an altogether different kind of space? One in the process of becoming? But becoming what? The image that flashed to mind was that of an Amazon fulfillment center: a million acres of non-stop conveyor belts with robots finding and retrieving machine-labeled products and filling yellow bins under the supervision of a handful of humans. Robotic automation creating efficiency while eliminating the unpredictable and unproductive complexities of human labor and interactions. Perhaps, supermarkets are undergoing a transformation from spaces where humans browse, compare, select, and purchase to cyborg-operated warehouses. Perhaps this rapid and fundamental revision of function is an inevitable result of the increasing rate of technical reformation of everyday life. Then again, perhaps my lucid vision of this scene as a new-reality- becoming is an example of what has been called “dystopian imagination”—an imaginary projection of “ethical and political concern” [Baccolini & Moylan, 2]. Or maybe it’s only a personal paranoia about the brave new world unfolding.
    Creator/Author:
    Wizinsky, Matthew
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    01/23/2018
    Date Modified:
    04/24/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Driving Medical Device Innovation in a Large Corporation

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    Article
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    Kaleidoscope-Special Sessions Presentation You may have labored for years to achieve your current market success. But as your success grows, so do expectations. Growth targets require both capitalizing on existing business practices and innovating new ones. It can be a challenge to do both. Kaleidoscope's VP of Research and Development, Mike Clem, DVM, Ms shares his understandable, memorable and easy-to- apply "Ships and Castle" model.
    Creator/Author:
    Clem, Michael
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    01/09/2018
    Date Modified:
    03/01/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Empowering the Preschool Children: A Service Platform Design Aiming at the Communication of Balanced Diet Information

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    Article
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    Childhood obesity increases the risk of obesity in adulthood and is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing in China. It is necessary to develop an intervention project for preschool children. Based on a service design project aiming at the communication of balanced diet information to the preschool children in China, this paper discusses how to take advantage of the digital platform and game-based learning to empower the preschool children. It argues for the importance of the DIKW hierarchy for empowerment. It also proposes an innovative model to involve new stakeholders into the whole system and to improve the viability of the project.
    Creator/Author:
    Zhou, Xing
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    01/09/2018
    Date Modified:
    10/15/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Mapping Communication Design through the Web

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    Article
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    Design is by nature an interdisciplinary, dynamic, and fluid discipline (Cross, 1982; Friedman, 2003). To define what design is has proved to be a very difficult—if not impossible and meaningless—exercise (Friedman, 2000), making also the understanding of the evolution of both the design discipline and practice a complex challenge. A rapidly changing technological landscape increases the breadth of design both in geographical terms and by extending to new domains, merging with different and new disciplines. Communication Design especially, being closer to the information and the media spheres, is the most sensitive and receptive design area. Communication Design finds online a fertile ground for its growth and developments, thus the online environment and the Web especially can be explored, dug, and mapped as mirrors of that evolution. The aim of our research is to map through the Web the complexity of the intersections between design as a discipline and design as a field of practice. Our exploration and representation of the online design territory covered four online environments: Behance, Wikipedia, Google, and the websites of the top one hundred design universities. The study has been conducted by using digital, statistical, and visualization methods. This exploration seeks neither to confirm theories nor predict the future, rather, it wants to make explicit and observable what Communication Design has become today. It aims to screenshot the state of the art, the emerging paths, in order to understand where and how it is going to develop. The attempt is to make design as a complex phenomenon visible, through the construction of a set of maps and representations for professors, students, and associations. These representations are tools to trigger reflections on the discipline
    Creator/Author:
    De Rossi, Giulia and Ciuccarelli, Paolo
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    01/09/2018
    Date Modified:
    10/15/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Design for Wellbeing: Generative Visual Music for Anxiety Reduction

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    Article
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    In societies where productivity is prioritized over presence, anxiety abounds. The extensive and alarming effects of anxiety on the mental and physiological wellbeing of bachelor students inspired a cross-disciplinary team to tackle this problem. Using combined expertise in visual design, music technology, psychology, art therapy and mindfulness — a digital tool entitled “Modes” was born. The Modes digital tool is an atmospheric, introspective, and aesthetically sophisticated engagement of three senses: ophthalmoception (sight), audioception (hearing), and tactioception (touch). Through immersive interaction, mesmerizing visual and sound landscapes are generated in order to reduce anxiety in bachelor students. The two measurable outcomes of Modes are 1) the reduction of self-reported anxiety in bachelor students, and 2) the reduction of bachelor student heart rates. Interacting with the Modes digital tool is like playing in a sandbox of dynamic visuals and music. Users begin by selecting and entering one of three digital environments entitled Refocus, Chill, or Energize. Each environment (or mode) offers a unique set of visuals and music designed specifically for anxiety reduction. The design and functionality of Modes are rooted in tenets of mindfulness practice and Ayurveda — an ancient Indian healing system emphasizing inner balance as a method for maintaining health and wellness (Kiefer, 2016). The Refocus, Chill, and Energize modes aim to balance each of three governing principle of Ayurveda that regulate physiological activity. Ultimately, users may combat and control their anxiety in three targeted ways: by refocusing, chilling, or energizing.
    Creator/Author:
    Hebbeler, John and Verba Fischer, Emily
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    12/06/2017
    Date Modified:
    03/01/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Dada posters in a post-colony

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    Article
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    Graphic design is often seen in the commercial context and is discussed through topics linked to software and technology. When we look around us we can realise that billboards, banners, posters and most of the print that surround us in the public space are delivering messages of marketing, corporations, consumerism and other commercially inclined narratives. This, however, is not the only way to comprehend the practice of a graphic designer. Graphic design can take a socio-pedagogical and historical role and distribute alternative messages in the society which are not linked to money and consumption, unless education, reading and studying are considered consumption of sorts. It is obvious that graphic design is a powerful tool that shapes our understanding of reality. This happens through being exposed to the work. Posters are claimed to mirror societies by many theorists and most visual communication is mediated by a graphic designer. Thus, Bonsiepe stated already in 2005 in his speech Design and Democracy that there is an absence of questioning activities linked to design production. It is yet a relevant theme that research needs to approach; also in a post-colony where the printed poster is ubiquitous. A simple sheet of printed paper. A very simple but extremely complex and powerful. There lies an investigation that this paper will start. The outcome of this paper to share knowledge within the researchers about creating new meaningful pathways in understanding globally important practice of graphic design. Art and design are universally important.
    Creator/Author:
    Turtola, Niina
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    12/06/2017
    Date Modified:
    02/08/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International