Industrial Design - Science topic

Post-disaster reconstruction projects face tighter time constraints and are in a more complex environment, making the implementation process of conventional projects unable to meet new requirements. This study decomposes the construction process and then determines the feed-forward and feedback relationship between activities in the post-disaster r...

This article examines the connecting lines between the Chilean Project Cybersyn’s interface design, the German Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm and its cybernetically inspired approaches towards information design, and later developments in interaction design and the emerging field of Human–Computer Interaction in the USA. In particular, it first exam...

In 1972, in Chile, the German designer Gui Bonsiepe was in charge of the Industrial Design Department of Technological Institute of the National Corporation for the Promotion of Production INTEC Corfo, during the government of socialist President Salvador Allende in Chile. In this article from the INTEC magazine n.2, published this time for the fir...

The industrial design profession is on the verge of another manufacturing revolution commonly referred to as Industry 4.0. This paradigm shift will influence the way in which products are made, which subsequently, will influence the future industrial designer. Industrial design, which is evolving, is intrinsically linked to manufacturing; however,...

The purpose of this work is to explain the way in which the different types of codified knowledge (Patents, Utility Models and Industrial Designs) have an impact on economic performance (GDP Per Capita and Investment) but taking into account input variables (scientific-educational variables). For this, a context of a developing country, such as Mex...

The paper analyzed the National Innovation System (NIS) and economic development in developing countries like Nigeria. The objectives of the paper were to examine the nature of innovation systems in Nigeria. It also investigates the effects of NIS on economic growth and development in Nigeria. The review of literature suggests that NIS is more than...

Protein plays a crucial role in building and repairing tissues so it is vital to develop a sensitive and rapid detection biosensor that can detect the concentration of protein in an aqueous solution. For biosensing applications, photonic sensing is a revolutionary technique that allows accurate measurement. The current work presents a defective ter...

In this study, we present how electric car marketing makes a practical appeal to elicit consumers’ emotions by its unique design characteristics to determine the essential attractive features that are beneficial for promoting the sales of this type of promising vehicle. Thus, we investigate why consumers prefer electric vehicles to fuel cars and wh...

Purpose: Diabetes knowledge is important for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) to improve their health. Therefore, it is important to validate an instrument for assessing diabetes knowledge. The present study aimed to validate the 24-item Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire (DKQ). Patients and methods: The 24-item DKQ and Diabetes-specific...

This book lays down the technological foundation for and introduces key artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and technologies for the digitising industry. While this chapter does not exhaustively cover all types of AI, it comprehensively prioritises the features of AI-based industrial applications and designs and defines the reference terminology...

With robots’ presence gradually expanding to homes and public spaces, there are increasing needs for new robot development and design. Mobile robots’ autonomous and dynamic behaviors ask for new design approaches and methods that are different from the ones for designing non-robotic products. This study proposes a methodology for designing mobile r...

The appearance characteristics of ceramic color are an important factor in determining the user’s aesthetic perception of the product. Given the problem that ceramic color varies and the user’s visual sensory evaluation of color is highly subjective and uncertain, a method of quantifying ceramic color characteristics based on the Back Propagation (...

In big thermal power plants, mixed flow pumps are commonly utilized for cooling water operations. In mixed flow pump impeller design, meridional streamlines are estimated by dividing the annulus by equal area. Inlet and output blade angles are determined empirically based on speed. Before estimating meridional streamlines, similar coefficients are...

The article presents the achievements in the optional subject Gender Identity and Design, proposed to be taught in the Industrial Design career of the Higher Institute of Design (ISDi). The main objective of the article was framed in presenting the results in the search for design proposals for toys and games created by students, and focused on gen...

Design studio courses are the basis of industrial design education. The product design projects carried out by academic and private sector experienced full-time and part-time instructors are shaped inline with the domain and experience of the lecturers. Assessment criteria may also change with the content of each product design project implemented....

The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) is the official government institution responsible for Industrial Property rights in Brazil, including Geographical Indications (GIs). Since 1996, the GIs are ruled by Law No. 9279, which defines Geographical Indications (GIs) as Indication of Provenance (IP) and Denomination of Origin (DO). IP i...

Supporting staff, as research and teaching assistants, in higher education carries significant pedagogical responsibility, especially in practice-based domains. In this respect, understanding the pedagogical roles of these participants of design studio courses is particularly critical. This study aims to investigate the research assistants’ pedagog...

Topology optimization is increasingly applied to design consumer products, for which aesthetics plays an important role to consumer acceptance. In industrial design, it is known that preferences or taste judgement obey certain rules or principles. These principles are not directly quantifiable, but can qualitatively predict and explain aesthetic re...

Across numerous disciplines, virtual reality (VR) had been used to aid decision-making in training, design, and evaluation processes. Both the educational and industrial groups have contributed to a vast knowledge based on a variety of VR topics during the last two decades. VR has been expanded to industry in recent years, but the majority of its a...

ناقش البحث عملية ادراك الشكل في المنتج الصناعي في نطاق النسق الادراكي الذي يعتمد على مفهوم الرسوخ لمعايرة ثباتيه المسح البصري وسلاسته انطلاقا من مباديء الجشتالت العامة ، وقد ناقش البحث مفهوم الرسوخ وطرق قياسه ، اضافة الى العناصر التي تؤدي الى تلك الصفة في سياق المنتج الصناعي، ومن ثم فقد سلط الضوء على العلاقات التي تحكم تلك العناصر ، وقد تم مناقشة م...

The rapid growth of the user experience (UX) field has brought efforts to meet the increasing demand for specialists by welcoming professionals from diverse disciplines, including industrial design (ID). UX field offers ID graduates extended professional possibilities, potentially appeasing the challenging conditions of the ID job market in Turkey....

The design profession evolved during technologically transformative times of industrialization. While the requirements of mass production have been the major paradigm shaping the nature of industrial design education in industrialised countries, developing countries also embraced it despite their late and peculiar processes of industrialisation. Th...

The New Product Development process is a significant issue for health institutions as well as for many other organizations. In this study, it is aimed to contribute to the studies in the field with the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method used in the new product development process in health institutions. For this purpose, an example of the QFD...

The Art Nouveau movement, which was included in the process called "The Turn of the Age" in the period from the end of the 19th century to the First World War of the 20th century, laid the groundwork for the development of Contemporary Graphic Design. This movement, whose effects are also visible in architecture, interior design and industrial desi...

Injuries in the elbow area, such as lateral and medial epicondylitis, are the leading causes of consultation with health specialists. Therefore, this research proposes the mechatronic design of an orthosis with a graphic interface that supports professionals in the rehabilitation of the elbow joint through the execution of flexion–extension and pro...

To solve the high slurry pressure and severe wear at some sections in backfilling pipelines, this study investigates the solution of using an auxiliary pipe to increase the resistance and reduce the pressure of the mine backfilling pipeline. Using computational fluid dynamics, three auxiliary pipe models, a Z-shaped pipe, a S-shaped pipe and a spir...

Due to Covid-19 pandemic, industrial design educators were forced out of their comfort zone and instructed students in an online environment with limited preparation and experience. Therefore, research in online design education has become a booming topic. Design educators are required to rethink and re-evaluate the post-pandemic model of industria...

This text gives a glimpse of a hitherto unknown design discourse during the Cold War – from both sides of the Iron Curtain - by exploring the 1975 Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), held in Moscow. Sweden sent a big delegation to Russia. More than forty of the small country’s top designers and influence...

Written by one of the most prolific and respected chemical engineers in the world and his co-author, also a well-known and respected engineer, this two-volume set is the "new standard" in the industry, offering engineers and students alike the most up-do-date, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art coverage of processes and best practices in the field...

The smart wheelchair is a service robot that can be used as a means of transportation for the elderly and the disabled. The patients were given an intelligent wheelchair designed by electroencephalogram (EEG), which was used for more than 8 hours and tested continuously for 1 month. By ridit analysis, the difference between the two groups was stati...

In this decade, all researchers and industry players compete to develop sustainable product design by exploring natural fibre composites in product design development. One of the essential methodologies in creating composite products is concurrent engineering (CE). Industrial design and production engineering should be involved in the development o...

In this paper, industrial design structure (IDeS) is applied for the development of two new full-electric sports sedan car proposals that go by the names Blitz Vision AS and Retro. With a deep analysis of the trends dominating the automotive industry, a series of product requirements was identified using quality function deployment (QFD). The resul...

Car front facing style (CFFS) recognition is crucial to enhancing a company’s market competitiveness and brand image. However, there is a problem impeding its development: with the sudden increase in style design information, the traditional methods, based on feature calculation, are insufficient to quickly handle style analysis with a large volume...

The continuously growing availability and volume of data pressure companies to leverage them economically. Subsequently, companies must find strategies to incorporate data sensibly for internal optimization and find new business opportunities in data-driven business models. In this article, we focus on using data and data analytics in product-orien...

Ürün tasarım süreçlerinde uygulanan farklı tasarım yaklaşımları tasarım sürecinin yapısını şekillendirmektedir. Özel sektörde firma hedefleri için yeni ürün tasarım ve üretim süreçlerinde farklı odaklar belirlenmektedir. Firmanın tasarım anlayışına ek olarak endüstriyel tasarımcıların sahip olduğu tasarım yaklaşımları da tasarlanan ürüne etkide bul...

In view of the problems of complex deviation sources in gear machining and low accuracy of empirical prediction, in order to improve the detection accuracy and the operation speed of gears after machining, the failure sign algorithm of the firefly neural network (FSAFNN) is applied to the prediction of the deviation range of gear autonomous machini...

The traditional literature on the role of intellectual property rights (IPR) in innovation highlights the strength of IPR protection in the context of the tradeoff between innovation and diffusion. More recent literature analyzes the role of diverse forms of IPR in promoting innovation and growth and delves into not only regular patents but also ut...

Inverse problems arise in many applied sciences and industrial design by providing parameters that can not be measured directly. Classical numerical methods exhibit instability issues for these problems. In this paper, we establish a stable spectral method both in space and time for the inverse source problem. The proposed method seeks an approxima...

The application of composite fans enables disruptive design possibilities but increases sensitivity to multi-physical resonance between aerodynamic, structure dynamic and acoustic phenomena. As a result, aeroelastic problems increasingly set the stability limit. Test cases of representative geometries without industrial restrictions are a key eleme...

Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) account for 95% of manufacturing firms in developing countries. They create jobs, contribute to gross domestic product, aid industrial development, satisfy local demand for services, invent and support large firms with inputs and services. SMEs are at the heart of the market and they know their customer dema...

Designing the provocation is a powerful strategy to jump from denouncing to generating actions and behaviors of a critical and speculative nature in design students. This article presents the discursive character of critical design function through three guidelines for provocation design: intellectual risk, generative challenge, and embodied future...

The objective of our research is the implementation of STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Mathematics) learning in the bachelor of Engineering in industrial design and product development at CEU Cardenal Herrera University through the EXPLORIA project. This article implements and develops the proposal for the first year of this bachelor, whi...

Topic: Decades of industrialized constructions in the industry became a trend in building design and construction. Theory and contents development: The study started with a new lecture-based course development in summer 2021 for an online delivery. The course contents were again used for the undergraduate capstone. This study is a report up until t...

Optimization has been a significant aspect of design process: this step allows to increase product performance through algorithms that modify design parameters according to various mathematical theories. Recently, the increasing computational performance revitalizes optimization strategies in most of the CAD software. Now algorithms can redesign pr...

Understanding product semantics and affective perceptions of product consumers undoubtedly offer significant value for industrial designers and their design practice. Deconstructing affective perceptions is a methodologically challenging task as it is implicit and subjective and is influenced by an individual’s aesthetic experience. Accordingly, ho...

For the purpose of fixing timing violations, static timing analysis (STA) of full-corners is repeatedly executed, which is time-consuming. Given a timing path, timing results at some corners (“dominant corners”) are utilized to predict timing at other corners (“non-dominant corners”), which can greatly shorten the runtime of STA. However, the huge...

This paper proposes an approach for capital goods manufacturers to design Product-Service System (PSS) pilot projects by selecting appropriate products and customers. The authors conducted a single-case empirical study as a part of an ongoing action research project to maximise the learnings from a pilot project while minimising expenditure in exte...

3D printing is increasingly used to fabricate medical devices and educational models, yet most studies to-date focus on a particular case study or training scenario. This study instead seeks to understand the relative importance of different qualities for 3D printed anatomical training models, including haptics, accuracy and costs. Clinicians at a...

With the deep integration of industries brought about by big data technology, users’ design needs are diversifying and individuating. Thanks to big data technology, users’ diverse design needs can be precisely met. Meanwhile, big data can be used to realize emotional interaction for personalized design needs of users, resulting in a better user exp...

Computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering technologies (CAD/CAM/ CAE) are a mainstay in today's industry and therefore they should be an important part in the current training plan of the graduate engineers. However, their implementation in the university environment presents certain barriers that make it difficult. In this work, we stud...

This paper explores greenhouse gas emission intensity and economy of centralized and on-site wet waste disposal mode, while comprehensively evaluating the two modes for decision-making. Based on the fieldwork in Shanghai’s 20 campuses of 15 universities, multiple scenarios that can reflect the different levels of technology and management in realit...

This paper provides a methodological proposal for the design and development process of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The design core and product design specifications (PDS) of Pugh’s Total Design model are considered, with a focus on the early stages of the product design and development process. A modularization of the functional groups of a...

The circular economy (CE) is a contemporary concept that includes the use of renewable materials and technologies, making sustainability an important part of corporate management. The paper deals with issues related to the current state of learning and management of the application of circular economy concepts—CE. The main purpose of this work is t...

Intellectual property rights are the exclusive rights granted to individuals over the creations of their minds by the country to use his or her creations for a limited period of time. The types of intellectual property rights are Patents, Copyright, Trademark, Industrial designs and Geographical indications. A patent is a grant of right by the gove...

Cellulosic-based materials are widely utilized for various mechanical components. The reliability of such materials for green products is still challenging for various design schemes. This work introduces a finite element analysis of 3-D cellulosic ash lumber composite beam for various mechanical design schemes to reveal the more consistent perform...

Airfoil aerodynamic optimization based on single-point design may lead to poor off-design behaviors. Multipoint optimization that considers the off-design flow conditions is usually applied to improve the robustness and expand the flight envelope. Many deep learning models have been utilized for the rapid prediction or reconstruction of flowfields....

Our aim is to show effects of changing structural characteristics on product design. For this purpose shape, material, structure are observed and evaluated on a specific industrially produced anonymous furniture. This study points to the importance of including structural and material characteristics that is chosen as it exemplifies a typical small...

Dear Colleagues, Advanced Fluid Technologies and Mechatronics focus on the theoretical and experimental work of integrated systems, in which fluid technology is mainly used for energy conversion. Highly specialized mechatronic control and monitoring systems are interfaced with sensors and transducers that enable the measurement of the states of ele...

The present study was set to validate two different suburban-type sportscar bodies with shared common underpinnings. The chosen method to develop this project was the Industrial Design Structure (IDeS), which characterizes the ability to use the different innovative techniques known within the industrial field, across the whole organization. This m...

There has been a significant gap in the comprehensive literature review of teaching reform of design history in the Chinese context. In order to bridge this gap, the literature bibliometric method is adopted to review the existing research on design history curriculum reform based on the CNKI database. A keyword review perspective was used to clari...

Both evaluating students’ design works and also understanding their cognition in the industrial design process are equally important for students’ learning. This study used the design activities and design competencies required by the industrial design process as items to develop an “Industrial Design Self-Efficacy and Anxiety Scale” that can be us...

This research explores augmented perception by investigating the effects of spatial scale manipulation in Virtual Reality (VR) to simulate multiple levels of virtual eye height (EH) and virtual interpupillary distance (IPD) of the VR users in the design context. We have developed a multiscale VR system for design applications, which supports a dyna...

There is limited information about the design process and outcomes of novice industrial designers when working with different levels of problem abstraction. In this paper, we propose a new way of describing the cognitive processes of problem solving based on problem decomposition strategy studies and network-based cognitive maps. An empirical study...

The introduction of AI technology in the process of industrial product design is helpful for designers to better analyze and apply complex data. This study integrates AI with industrial design, applies new ideas and technologies in AI to industrial design, and changes the traditional industrial design mode. The contents of AI and industrial design...

This work is the continuation of the work published in the magazine ArtyHum Nº 81 under the title «Abductive thinking and the use of artistic and design iconographies in science. The methods of scientific thought-inductive, hypothetical-deductive and abductive-and their relations with analogies in research». It is part of my research within the res...