Browsing by Author "Liu, Tsai Lu"

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A Consumer Participation Approach to the Design of Functional Collector Toys by Incorporating Designer Toy Subculture

Harsadi, Meryl (2009-12-15)

Designer toys have become one of the emerging toy markets since the late 1990’s. Designer toys were designed by artist especially targeted at first to underground art collectors and until now it has been targeted to toy ...

Culturalistic Design: Design Approach to Create Products for Specific Cultural and Subcultural Groups

Allen, Brandon (2009-05-15)

Designers have a unique process for solving problems commonly referred to as design thinking. Design thinking, especially on a cultural level can be used to tackle a wide range of creative and business issues. Design ...

Design Seed: An Approach for the Creation of Design-Based Manufacturing Industries in Under-Industrialized Regions, like, Alabama's Impoverished Black Belt Region

Smith, Mark (2007-08-15)

Almost two hundred years ago, in a crescent shaped region of Alabama that stretches from Alabama’s eastern boundary with Georgia to its western side abutting Mississippi, half of Alabama’s enslaved population of Africans ...

A Guide to Musical Instrument Design for Preschool Children

Smith, Derek (2005-08-15)

In order to improve the ergonomic and aesthetic qualities of musical instruments, intended for preschool children, a guideline, which assists the designer in producing more age-appropriate products, has been be created. ...

Guidelines for the Proper Application of Color and Light in the Health and Fitness Industry for the Purpose of Improving User Experience and Performance

Logan, Joshua (2005-08-15)

Guidelines that demonstrate the proper application of color and light for the purpose of improving user experience and performance with consideration given to equipment selection and layout within the realm of a health and ...

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 ...

Illuminating Music: A Research and Product Design Study Applying Synesthesia and Ambient Peripheral Display Theory to the Violin

Phillips, Foster (2008-05-15)

See. Hear. Taste. Smell. Touch. The senses are the conduit from the external to the internal. There are a select few who live in an almost unimaginable world where two or more of their senses are joined. There are ...

The Research and Design of Pediatric Dental Handpieces That Offer Reduced Apprehension for Pediatric Patients and Enhanced Ergonomics for Dentists

Reynolds, Alexander (2008-05-15)

10.7% of 5 to 11-year-olds are afraid of dental visits (Australian Dental Journal, 2001). Interviews with five dentists revealed that reasons for this include separation from parents, dental workers’ poor bedside manner ...

The Research and Design of Spinal Orthosis to Create a Back Brace for Post Operative Patients

Hicks, Michael (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

Robertson, Jason (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 ...

Sustainable Design for Primary Grade Students in Latin America to Leapfrog into the Twenty-First Century for Economic Development

Haynes, Donna (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 ...

TourBot: A Research and Product Design Study Applying Human Robot Interaction and Universal Design Principles to the Development of a Tour Guide Robot

Terrell, Robert, Jr. (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 ...