Emilio Rossi

University of Chieti-Pescara | UNICH · Department of Architecture

La crescente attenzione verso la progettazione di soluzioni inclusive che esaltino i concetti di diversità, equità, e uguaglianza, richiede l’uso di strumenti di ricerca meta- progettuale capaci di guidare designer e stakeholder verso la produzione di idee innovative e maggiormente abilitanti. “Inclusive Signs” è un toolkit open access che impiega...

The rise of awareness and attention around the concept of EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) within the scientific and professional communities working in design studies is apparent. However, ensuring high-quality education for all—Sustainable Development Goal 4—while educating future generations of designers in acting responsibly by preventi...

To reinforce the scientific understanding around these topics, along with the progression of the scientific debates about positive ways of living and consuming the environments, the Volume 28 of the Rivista Italiana di Ergonomia [Italian Journal of Ergonomics] promotes a reflection on the strategic topic ‘Ergonomics for a Sustainable Wellbeing’. Th...

The value introduced by informed teaching practices on Design for Social Inclusion is becoming widely accepted by many Design programmes worldwide, though students frequently struggle to propose novel concepts and design ideas from which to develop inclusive solutions. Both teachers and students often employ stereotyped concepts that ultimately lea...

To strengthen our understanding and foster the scientific debates about possible innovations in this cross-disciplinary research area, the Volume 27 of the Rivista Italiana di Ergonomia [Italian Journal of Ergonomics] promotes a reflection on the topic ‘Ergonomics for a better use and consumption of resources’ through a first collection of works co...

Visual merchandisers use psychological techniques to target consumers’ unconscious mind and influence buying patterns. Successful implementation of these techniques results in increased sales and market share. However, the Covid-19 has changed the user’s behavior in stores and visual merchandisers have conceived new design strategies to ensure safe...

A significant number of publications demonstrate the growing interest in connecting studies on sustainability with HCD-related interventions, though a complete analysis of all endogenous and exogenous dynamics of research lines currently developed has never been made. A study depicting the main cross-sectoral results developed in the recent years w...

What happens when brands engage in activism and involve themselves in the socio-political lives of their consumers? The rise of social issues and political messages in brand design is an emerging topic for the Design discipline. Designers are asked to communicate more complex ideologies in products and advertising campaigns. Designing-in values, in...

The synergies and the relevant interdisciplinary existing between Sustainability and Ergonomics (HFE) are paramount to document the cultural evolution of design interventions that can be made when creating innovative artefacts, such as products, services, and product-service systems, since both disciplines aim at investigating the interactions betw...

Prostheses are fundamental tools to improve the quality of life of people with physical impairments. However, the way prostheses are designed and produced follows traditional design and manufacturing processes tied to conventional industrial methods. Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies employed through inclusive-oriented design angles can supp...

Issue of slow mobility in inland waterways represents an important opportunity for the design research community, as part of the objectives of the main research programs in EU (e.g., Horizon Europe); hence, complex problems related to mobility can be faced by the design community through sets of smart solutions, both tangible and intangible. Recent...

Sustainability and Ergonomics are two of the most important subjects to consider when it comes the creation of a wealthy, inclusive and productive modern society. Both are crucial for creating effective workplaces and solutions for finding ways to make people’s lives better and healthier. From the scientific point of view, the area of intersection...

As promoted by Sustainable Development Goal 4, cultural and structural investments in high-quality education are important to ensure inclusive and fair quality teaching and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This is important considering Target 4.7, which promotes the education for Sustainable Development. The role of the Higher Educa...

There is a growing attention in exploring the synergies between Sustainability and Ergonomics (HFE), as both disciplines aim to investigate the relations between humans, living ecosystems, and artefacts used to perform informed tasks. Furthermore, a holistic interplay between human behaviours, creative practices, and contexts of use can be identifi...

There is a growing attention toward 3D Printing systems, though the risk to create unsustainable technology-driven processes is high. As Sustainability is one of the main topics of all agendas, there is the need to move toward coherent Sustainable 3D Printing systems (S-3DP). Human Centred Design (HCD) could be used to mitigate these threats as it...

设计师和利益相关者能否为未来的包容性社会制定有意义的设计策略和可控的愿景，克服”为残疾人设计”的理念？ 是否有可能为未来的包容性项目生成创造性和创新性的元设计见解？ 包容性和赋能性人工制品（即：产品、服务、产品系统等）的设计需要能够解释社会包容复杂性的新创作过程。 包容性标志是一个基于卡片的工具包，旨在产生创造性和包容性的设计概念，元设计见解和策略。

包容性和赋能性人工制品（即：产品、服务、产品系统等）的设计需要能够解释社会包容复杂性的新创作过程。 包容性标志是一个基于卡片的工具包，旨在产生创造性和包容性的设计概念，元设计见解和策略。一套180张卡片和一个工作表可用于进行创造性的头脑风暴，研讨会，讨论，以及找到鼓舞人心的轨迹和有意义的价值。 包容性标志采用符号学模式来产生有意义的包容性导向设计意义——确切地说是包容性标志。 包容性标志的创建是通过描述性和视觉概念的本能组合来运作的。因此，设计师、利益相关者和设计学生都可以想象未来的包容性场景和新一代的赋能解决方案。 本手册提供了有关如何通过包容性标志工具包生成包容性元设计概念的有用说明。这里介绍的手册和工具包（180张卡片和工作表）是一个公开访问项目的一部分，请在 CC BY-NC-SA...

Possono i designer e gli stakeholder generare delle strategie progettuali significative o delle visioni calibrate che superino l’idea di “design per la disabilità”, e che siano invece utili per ripensare la futura società inclusiva? È possibile generare delle idee metaprogettuali, creative e innovative, da impiegare nei futuri progetti inclusivi?...

Il design di artefatti inclusivi e abilitanti (es. prodotti, servizi, sistemi di prodotti, ecc.) ha bisogno di nuovi processi creativi in grado di interpretare la complessità stessa dell’Inclusione Sociale. Segni Inclusivi è un toolkit basato su carte ideato per generare dei concept progettuali creativi e inclusivi, ma anche idee e strategie metap...

The design of inclusive and enabling artefacts (i.e.: products, services, systems of products, etc.) requires new creative processes able to interpret the complexity of Social Inclusion. Inclusive Signs is a card-based toolkit designed to generate creative and inclusive design concepts, meta-design insights and strategies. A set of 180 cards and...

Can designers and stakeholders generate meaningful design strategies and controlled visions for the future inclusive society that overcome the idea of ‘design for disabled people’? Is it possible to generate creative and innovative meta-design insights for future inclusive projects? A set of 180 cards (60 descriptive cards and 120 visual cards), p...

The term ‘underprivileged communities’ describes groups of people experiencing some form of restrictions, such as economic, social, and political, which later lead to producing extensive forms of social exclusion. Although this phenomenon is mainly visible in crisis scenarios (i.e.: refugee camps), or emerging countries (i.e.: slums), some relevant...

Issue of schooling in developing countries and in areas experiencing emergency conditions represents an important opportunity for the design research community. Contributing to the pupil’s growth, education and development, and increasing their potential, is part of the objectives of the human rights treaties, the United Nations Charter, and the va...

Proceedings of the 13th AHFE International Conference on Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping, New York, USA, July 24-28, 2022. OPEN ACCESS: https://openaccess.cms-conferences.org/#/publications/book/978-1-958651-10-0

VERSIONE ITALIANA La pandemia ha generato notevoli criticità nel settore dellʼeducazione universitaria, inficiando sia le modalità di organizzazione dei programmi curriculari che la qualità della didattica. Tale criticità è stata particolarmente evidente nellʼinsegnamento della disciplina del Design, la quale prevede una serie di attività laborator...

The relationship between plastics and disposable domestic products like cutlery has a long history in Design. For long time, the use of thermoplastics has been seen as the most cost-effective solution to meet the market demands with an affordable solution ‘for all’. Only in last decades the society got the awareness that this way of producing produ...

3D Printing is a fast-growing disruptive technology that is changing the manufacturing sector in many ways, improving both the design of products and the production processes. Whilst the most traditional research contributions tackle the role of the technology in manufacturing, the implications on the social and inclusive dimensions are less consid...

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of human factors research and methods fostering a better integration of technologies and humans during the whole manufacturing cycle, giving a special emphasis to the quality and safety of the industrial environment for workers, the efficiency of the manufacturing processes itself, the quality of th...

This is a landmark publication for the field of design. It was catalysed by unprecedented circumstances, as designers around the world had to rapidly deploy their competencies in strategic problem-solving to help humanity in the fight against an invisible enemy during a global pandemic. In alliance with other disciplines, from medicine to mechanica...

The COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered as the most severe medical threat of last decades, which forced billions of people to live in isolation and alienating conditions while millions have lost their lives. So far, the design interventions created to contrast the pandemic have been largely focused on the design of products for personal use (i.e....

Modern 3D printing systems have become pervasive and widely used both in professional and in informal contexts, including sustainable-oriented ones. However, the risk to create very effective but non-sustainable solutions is very high since 3D printing systems could potentially increase the environmental emergencies and the unsustainable growth. In...

This is a landmark publication for the field of design. It was catalysed by unprecedented circumstances, as designers around the world had to rapidly deploy their competencies in strategic problem-solving to help humanity in the fight against an invisible enemy during a global pandemic. In alliance with other disciplines, from medicine to mechanica...

This is the second of a two-parts study concerning the integration of the human factors, and in general the integration of all human centred aspects, into fully sustainable and sustainable-oriented 3D printing systems. In particular, this second part of the study will present the design experimentations obtained after the methodological implementat...

This is the first of a two-parts study concerning the integration of human factors into sustainable and sustainable-oriented 3D printing systems. Nowadays, it is largely accepted the idea that the so-called ‘human factor’ plays an important role in the achievement and in the development of sustainable-oriented actions, since it is able to inspire t...

This book discusses the latest advances in the broadly defined field of advanced manufacturing and process control. It reports on cutting-edge strategies for sustainable production and product life cycle management, and on a variety of people-centered issues in the design, operation and management of manufacturing systems and processes. Further, it...

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As world’s societal wellbeing is growing, in the near future the ‘seniors condition’ will force designers and companies to rethink the way they conceive, produce and sell products. This condition is fundamental for some strategic markets like the lighting domain. In this scenario, Human Centric Lighting (HCL) approach considers both seniors’ biolog...

Coworking workplaces are shared production areas where the emerging class of ‘Millennials’ can work together. Unlike traditional ‘work-at-home’, this new business model shows clear pros for what concerns design-driven innovation, sustainable economies and creative industries. However, noise control and noise-related aspects need to be taken into ac...

Current digital design tools rapid prototyping techniques are today still misunderstood due to their poor accessibility and ease of use that limit their diffusion. However, additive manufacturing technology can produce a positive impact both in design and in production processes. Compared to the traditional productions, it produces a renewal of the...

As 3D Printing process, technologies and tools are rapidly becoming pervasive and used both in industrial and in non-industrial contexts, the risk to have new unsustainable printing processes and production’s behaviours is high and, potentially, can led to the increasing of environmental emergency (unsustainable growth). On the other hand, Design f...

This book discusses the latest advances in digital modeling systems (DMSs) and additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. It covers applications of networked technologies, ubiquitous computing, new materials and hybrid production systems, discussing how they are changing the processes of conception, modeling and production of products and systems of...

For many years the meaning of “human diversity” was often intended in a neg- ative sense: physical appearances, if not included in recognized proportions or capabilities, have been tied to words like “disability”. The meaning of human diversity concerns many aspect of everyday life, from physical to social, cognitive and behavioural ones. In Design...

Explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge compose the Human Knowledge. While explicit knowledge refers to information sharable through communicative media (i.e. speech), tacit knowledge – also known as ‘know-how’ – is harder to be shared due to it is linked to experience mediated personal learning processes (i.e. learning by doing); moreover, know-how...

Heritage is de ned as the set of all material, immaterial, natural and cultural assets, whose immense value is univer- sal and belongs to all people, as a property of present and future world generations. It is therefore an asset to be preserved for future generations. However current design approaches used to implement existing Heritage’s promo- t...

3D Printing technologies are becoming pervasive and used both in industry and in informal contexts like domestic self-production and craftsmanship 2.0. A large part of the current studies concerning 3D Printing aims at increas- ing the performance of processes, materials and devices; however, only few studies approach sustainable issues (i.e. print...

While Human-Centred Design is by the time considered a consolidated design methodology, emerging social inclusion-oriented theories need to be more comprehended in order to understand their potential applications in the development of new design solutions. This sort of discrepancy often generates contradictory phenomena: solutions developed using s...

The May 2019 volume of 'Design for All' entitled 'Design Research by Under 40 Researchers' is part of the editorial projects developed by the Design for All Institute of India; it collects contributions from young researchers working in the area of Design and aims to show novel and original contributions in the area of research made by young and ta...

Tacit knowledge can be defined as a particular form of knowledge used by people to address, deal and manage practical issues involving the immediate use of experience, abilities and manual skills. It is a kind of knowledge acquired and refined through the iterative practice of “doing” and over the time, it becomes a continuous learning process depe...

In last years, the world population’s average age has constantly increased. Thus, the ‘seniors’ class will be, in the near future, one of the most important groups of customers able to significantly condition the products’ demand. In the lighting industry, the ‘age factor’ will be one of the latest aspects to take into account in order to design ne...

The valorisation of Mediterranean UNESCO Heritage can be intended as a com- plex set of design strategies, even communicative, which allows to understand those values universally recognised as the highest form of human genius loci, or the everlasting moulding action of nature. While communication design is still considered as a minor aspect in such...

The Design discipline approaches the enhancement of Heritage using visual-centric methods, while end-users with visual disabilities are excluded from the visit all Cultural and Natural Sites. A new design framework, here presented, connects Digital Modeling and 3D Printing to helps Designers in the achievement of haptic communicative solutions for...

This book discusses the latest advances in manufacturing and process control, with a special emphasis on digital manufacturing and intelligent technologies for manufacturing and industrial processes control. The human aspect of the developed technologies and products, their interaction with the users, as well as sustainability issues, are covered i...

The Cultural and Natural Heritage is a relevant value that must be taken into account, mainly if we consider its positive potentialities for the Sustainable Development. Even though these potentialities are obvious, new relevant design opportunities are possible in the fields of tourism valorisation, for example: new solutions for the sustainable f...

For many years the meaning of “diverse” was often intended in a negative sense; for example physical appearances, if not included in recognized proportions or capabilities, have often been tied to the concept of “disability” and, in general to the concept of “human diversity”. The meaning of human diversity concerns many aspect of everyday life, fr...

Tacit knowledge can be defined as a particular form of knowledge used by people to address, deal and manage practical issues involving the immediate use of experience, abilities and manual skills. It is a kind of knowledge acquired and refined through the iterative practice of “doing” and over the time, it becomes a continuous learning process depe...

Referring to the discussion recently promoted by the Sub-Technical Committee no4 "Ergonomics and design for sustainability", in this paper will be shown the early results of a theoretical and methodological study on Ergonomic design for sustainability. In particular, the research is based on the comparison between the common thematic structure char...

Starting from the results of a theoretical and methodological study on Ergonomic design for sustainability previously developed from the authors, this paper shows the early results of a study that tries to apply them to actual operational and conceptual apparatuses of Ergonomics. In particular, the research aims to verify the possibility for Ergono...

In the Design for All Approach (DfA), an important phase of the design process consists in the individuation of the so-called "limit users", that are that particular group of people with the most "critical" features for the autonomous fruition of a system or a product. Generally, however, it is not easy to identify them in a complete and objective...