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Guideline of Outdoor Exercise Equipment for Elderly and Elderly with Disabilities

Liang, Shuming (2024-05-03)

Aging causes a number of problems that can lead to physical health issues such as musculoskeletal problems in older adults and older adults with disabilities. This thesis examines the benefits of outdoor exercise for older ...

Guideline to refine the product appearance based on analysis of the line shape in the two-dimensional views

Wang, Shijia (2017-07-27)

According to the human perception, humans are more sensitive to the shapes of objects. For the product, the line shape represents the shape of the product in a two-dimensional view, and lines also work as the original and ...

Guidelines and Application for Designing Visually Compelling Products

Zhu, Qianyun (2018-07-30)

Today, with the development of modern civilization, the pursuit of product appearance has never ceased. However, to design a visually compelling product for the majority is a challenge for designers or companies. By studying ...

Guidelines for Designing Handheld Tools for the Elderly

Gong, Lin (2017-11-20)

This thesis includes a set of guidelines on the basis of which to design handheld tools for elderly people. Elderly people are a very special group of costumers. First, their bodies go through many changes with the aging ...

Guidelines for Designing Inclusive Wearable Devices for the Aging Population

Zou, Huilin (2019-04-24)

Wearable technology has rapidly evolved during the past decades and become trendy nowadays. There is a steady increase in wearable devices sales every year; however, unfriendly user experience and high abandonment rates ...

Guidelines for Designing Kitchen Appliances for the Elderly

Raven, Susan (2006-08-15)

The number of elderly people in the United States is growing due to the baby boom. The life span of kitchen appliances is also growing due to new technologies that are developed. Since the elderly will be using their ...

Guidelines for Designing Recreational Vehicles Functionally and Interior for Selected Culture

Li, Zhengxian (2024-05-03)

The thesis is about creating a guideline to help design recreational vehicles for one specific culture or subculture. It covers a brief history of the birth and development of recreational vehicles, including the predecessor ...

Guidelines for Designing Stressful Emotion Relief Toys for Adults

Ma, Jiaxuan (2019-04-23)

Nowadays, the rapid development of society not only fulfill people’s material needs and allow them to focus more on their spiritual needs, but also stress people out. Stressful emotion relief toys are noticed by more and ...

Guidelines for First and Third-Person Mimetic Fantasy Toy Design for Ages 7-12

Gamache, Micah (2018-04-29)

Over the past four decades, toys have slowly moved away from independent story-driven play to media-driven play. Skinning toys to match the most current media or movie has become more significant than story-driven toys ...

Guidelines of Transferring Brutalist Architectural Styles from Mid-20th Century To Furniture Design

Zhu, Jinquan (2023-12-11)

This thesis explores how to transfer mid-20th-century architectural styles into furniture design to create furniture that harmonizes with the architecture itself. This thesis discusses the concept of applying mid-20th-century ...

Guidelines to Change the Cultural Paradigms of Designers Toward Third World People Groups through Missiology to Influence Furniture Design

Moreman, Jacob (2005-12-15)

Third world culture has been invaded by the western world. It is an issue that grows everyday with the media influences of western culture. Industrial designers have developed many of the products and systems which act ...

Guidelines To Develop Product Forms From Chinese Calligraphy

Goh, Yi (2005-12-15)

“Global Westernization” is the most prominent characteristic of the 20th century. World culture, design and art form lean towards the West. Western products, like German products can be seen in markets all over the world. ...

Guidelines to Help Designers Incorporate the Parent-Child Factors into Toy Design

Wei, Haoyi (2019-07-15)

It is reported by the Toy Industry Association that there is a huge toy market in the global market. The total revenue of the global toy market has increased from 78 billion dollars in 2007 to 89 billion dollars in 2017. ...

An Inclusive Design Guideline for Designing Elderly Friendly Smart Home Control Device

Luo, Minxiang (2019-07-19)

Concerns related to age and aging of older people has been lingering around many people’s minds, especially for the older adults who are about to enter their young-old stage of life or already experiencing the physical and ...

Integrating and Communicating Biocides in Products

Ritterling, Landon (2022-12-06) ETD File Embargoed

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sanitation and cleanliness are high on the minds of consumers. Designers must now consider the cleanliness of their products, a consideration that is newer to the field. To aid ...

Mass Customization – An Approach to Designing Product Platforms for Mass Customization

LaPilusa, Marc (2016-12-09)

Over the last several decades, the production industry has experienced a paradigm shift from traditional mass production processes toward mass customization processes; this enables consumers to become an integral part in ...

Mass-Customization Through Digital Manufacturing

Carter, Adam (2013-05-15)

Manufacturing is an ever-evolving process that constantly changes how products are developed. Changes in manufacturing can affect society and companies worldwide resulting in innovative new products and processes. Industrial ...

Product Attachment and Sustainability: A Transitional Method to Extend Product Lifespan

Piper-Kaiser, Dylan (2014-11-18)

The consequences of the unconstrained production and manufacturing undertaken during the 20th century by the Western world are numerous and worrisome. Sustainable solutions to these problems involve not only reducing ...

Product Redesign on the Basis of Fundamental Human Needs by Application of Contrary Thinking

Wang, Wenyue (2014-07-09)

It is a thesis about developing an approach of applying contrary thinking into product redesign based on fundamental human needs.

Recommendations for Designing Spaces to Support Creativity and Design

Goggans, David (2014-12-09)

This thesis explores designing spaces to support creativity and design. It examines supporting the tasks and thinking involved in creative and design processes with the environment. This paper also looks at how individual ...