Browsing by Department "Industrial Design"
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The Research and Design of Spinal Orthosis to Create a Back Brace for Post Operative Patients
(2009-05-15)
There are 11,000 new injuries that affect the back each year. The injuries sustained are often serious and require surgical treatment. The treatment, along with the rehabilitation process, can often be physically and ...
A Scalable Approach For Deciphering Core Rationales as the Foundation of New Product Devleopment
(2009-04-15)
Strategic plans are usually based on traditional statistical research and market segmentations like age, gender, zip code. Those segmentations do not reflect what people think about when they make decisions to buy a product ...
A Study for Playful Product Design
(2012-11-06)
Fuzzy things like sensitivity and emotion have been ignored for decades as topics of scientific study and product design. However, more and more studies are focusing on the emotional side of product design.
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Sustainable Design for Primary Grade Students in Latin America to Leapfrog into the Twenty-First Century for Economic Development
(2007-05-15)
Research has shown that the education of primary grade students in Latin American countries is crucial to their economic growth. Although enrollment gains each year and most Latin American countries boast of literacy rates ...
Sustainable Design Methodology for Industrial Designers within an Organization with no Environmental Policy
(2007-08-15)
Industrial Designers play a pivotal role in shaping the products used, consumed and disposed of. Designers in the United States play an even more important role than most other countries in the world due to our unbalanced ...
A System and Unit Design for Food Distribution During a Disaster Recovery
(2006-08-15)
Because of the steadily increasing population, disaster needs have been steadily increasing in number and scale. This increasing trend intensifies the need for aid in the recovery areas of disaster situations. The development ...
A System Design to Reduce the Amount of Organic Waste Disposed in Trash
(2014-07-11)
The current trend in modern society is to use, consume and discard. People typically generate large portions of trash without fully understanding what they are actually disposing of. The majority of the trash people in the ...
A Systematic Approach For Developing Modular Rehabilitation Products For Facilitating Better Strength Recovery With Focus On Stroke Patients
(2016-04-22)
According advanced medical technologies have enabled ruptured brain vessels to be saved by related procedures for stroke patients. However, most patients will suffer various kinds of sequela, such as muscle atrophy, ...
A Systematic Approach to the Classification of Physical Connections in Product Design
(2016-04-27)
Physical connection plays an important part in product design. This thesis focuses on
discussing physical connection in product design. Physical connection is the junction area of two or multiple parts. This thesis aims ...
TourBot: A Research and Product Design Study Applying Human Robot Interaction and Universal Design Principles to the Development of a Tour Guide Robot
(2009-05-08)
Robots have intrigued the imagination of society since their introduction in 1921 by Czechoslovakian writer Karel Capek in his play, Rossum’s Universal Robots. Since that time, advances in the field of robotics have increased ...
Trellis: A Blog-Based Approach to the Development, Organization, and Visualization of Ideas
(2007-08-15)
The creative process is often indirect. Ideas may come in bursts, evolve gradually, or include missteps and false turns. It is helpful to have a scaffold to maintain a history of thoughts and provide structure onto which ...
User Centered Design Strategy for the Design of Visual Data Displays
(2010-07-30)
In the last thirty years digital technology has revolutionized the way that we interact with products. Most digital products, such as phones, GPS devices, digital music players, and digital video and still cameras, make ...
A User-Centered Approach Integrating an Interactive Product System into the Design of a Grocery Shopping Experience
(2009-11-19)
Health conditions in the United States are continuing to rise. Many of these health conditions can be resolved or suppressed by making healthier food decisions. People rely on Nutrition Fact Labels to give them information ...
User-Centered Design Evaluation by Application of Biofeedback Technology
(2006-12-15)
It is the responsibility of an Industrial Designer to create products that are valuable in usability and aesthetics for the user. Through design evaluation, the designer is able to use techniques of screening out less ...