Industrial Design Context Research Articles

The Growing Path in Search of an Industrial Design Identity

Knowing that the education system must be reinvented periodically to face the changes of social and cultural paradigm, was reviewed the pedagogical organization of a set of disciplines of an industrial design course that were in operation for a decade. Thus, in view of the objective of restructuring the disciplinary group of industrial design, a new structure has been developed and implemented that could offer students the opportunity to explore problems and challenges that have real applications, increasing the possibility of acquiring competences effectively needed to practice the profession of designer.This restructuring had as its starting point the concept of Project-based learning, which is designated as student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. Consequently, resulting in a learning process organized into levels with increasing degree of complexity. As well, different assimilations of markets and design scenarios.Starting from the first year of the course, where students are still understanding the context of industrial design and its potentialities. At a time when their techniques, principles and methods are still very raw and basic. They are initiated in a LOW-ID and local industry context, to acquire basic skills. The second year allows embark on an intermediate level called MID-ID, with new skills in international brands approach. In the last year of the course the 3rd level is reached, HIGH-ID, with projects with the national industry.The first year of implementation of this curriculum structure showed good results. Thus, favoring a solid interdisciplinary formation with, skills and competences that allow future designers to intervene creatively and competently in a variety of fields. This process allows to progress to the next academic degree to complete and validate the entire formation of the student.

Ideation in Industrial Design Context: The importance of group process in brainstorming

Brainstorming is a series of procedures (rules) designed to maximize the productivity of groups engaged in idea generation by reducing production loss, popularized by Osborn, an advertising executive. The main concern of this tool is increasing creativity in an organization. This study examines two main factors, production loss and ownership of the topic that influence the performance in group brainstorming. Production loss includes activities in production blocking, social loafing and evaluation apprehension among individuals, while ownership of the topic relates to the interest of individuals in engaging the brainstorming activities, especially in industrial design. Using a quasi-experimental research design, this study reports on the participation of 115 groups of university students from 6 different universities. The data is analyzed at the group level. The hypotheses of this study are tested using Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression. Results reveal that out of the three dimensions of production loss, production blocking, social loafing, and evaluation apprehension, production blocking is negatively related to the group brainstorming performance whereas evaluation apprehension is positively related to the performance or group brainstorming. As expected, ownership or the topic is related to the performance too. However, social loafing is not related to performance or group brainstorming. The results are of potential interest to educators, and researchers. This study responds 10 a call for further brainstorming research.

Using Group Brainstorming in Industrial Design Context: Factors Inhibit and Exhibit

Brainstorming is a series of procedures designed to maximize the productivity of groups. This study examines two main factors, production loss and ownership of the topic that influence the performance in group brainstorming. 115 groups from 6 different universities have participated in this experiment study. The data is analyzed at group-level. Results reveal that production blocking is negatively related to the group brainstorming performance whereas evaluation apprehension is positively related to the performance of group brainstorming. Ownership of the topic is related to the performance too. The results are of potential interest to industrial design context, educators, and researchers.

Semantic Evaluation and Deformation of Curves Based on Aesthetic Criteria

To better simulate the way designers work, specific tools are needed to handle directly specific shape features meaningful for the design intent, without focusing on the underlying mathematic representation. For this purpose it is fundamental to identify proper higher-level shape descriptors as well as the corresponding manipulation techniques. The paper presents the definition and implementation of semantic operators for curve deformation based on a shape characterization that is specific to the industrial design context. The work grounds on the innovative approach suggested by the FIORES-II project for the intent-driven modeling tools for direct shape modification and on the multi-layered architecture proposed by the Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE for the definition of semantic-oriented 3D models. In particular the paper proposes the use of meaningful aesthetic features for the evaluation of planar curve signature and for their intent-driven direct modification.

Processes to Integrate Design With Downstream Applications Through Product Shapes Adaptation

In the aeronautics industry, various stages of a product development process such as physical phenomena (like stress, strain, and thermal ones) or virtual reality simulations are regarded as product views and based on different digital shapes of the same physical component. The shape adaptation processes needed to progress from one stage of the product development process to another one, the multiple shapes needed for a simulation at a given stage of this process are analyzed and shape adaptation operators are presented. Then, it is shown why geometric models adaptation processes from the design stage to downstream applications are important in an industrial design context, and why this is a concurrent engineering enabler. Subsequently, we show how shapes adaptation processes can be achieved through their appropriate formalization and representation using direct acyclic graphs connected to the scene structure of a simulation and the product structure used as input. A process data structure is also proposed to describe shape adaptation processes and ease their reuse. Finally, based on two EADS case studies, we illustrate how methods and criteria can be set up to produce adapted shapes from computer-aided design data in a controlled and integrated manner.

<p>Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Industrial Design Education</p>

Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has been embraced by many of the recent educational reform documents as a way of describing the knowledge possessed by expert teachers. These reform documents have also served as guides for educators to develop models of teacher development. However, in the United States, few if any of the current models accurately address the role of PCK in the development of industrial design educators. This article introduces the concept of PCK and how a taxonomy of essential industrial design subject matter can be organized to serve as a content guide. The PCK model presented could serve as a catalyst for the field of industrial design education to produce a conceptual framework and taxonomy for the teaching of industrial design upon which future PCK studies in industrial design education can be based. These conceptual frameworks (or taxonomies) help within a field to articulate the core knowledge, skills, and dispositions that define practice. The interaction of teacher content knowledge in industrial design, pedagogical knowledge, and context of industrial design is framed within a PCK taxonomy.

Periodic orbit techniques for mode shape approximation

At high frequency, numerical methods for calculating mode shape functions in a waveguide are expensive. The effect of modifying the shape of a waveguide in an industrial design context may only be calculated on a case‐by‐case basis if numerical methods are used. Periodic orbits are closed, repeating ray paths. A significant body of research in quantum physics indicates that periodic orbits provide fundamental insight into mode theory, which can be applied to acoustics. A method to approximate mode shape functions around short periodic orbits proposed by Vergini [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33, 4709–4716, (2000)] and Babic and Buldryrev [‘‘Short‐Wavelength Diffraction Theory’’ (Springer, Berlin) (1991)] is implemented in this paper. In particular, mode shape functions in nonintegrable waveguides are approximated. This method links the geometry of the waveguide to the mode shape functions. The technique is extended to waveguides that have partly chaotic ray dynamics and is applied to the oval and eccentric annul...

Fundamental Research and Study on the Methodological Context of Industrial Design (Analysis of Industrial Products from the Standpoint of their Formative Process; The Case Study of Washing Machines, No.5-Summary and Conclusion

Fundamental Research and Study on the Methodological Context of Industrial Design (Analysis of Industrial Products from the Standpoint of their Formative Process; The Case Study of Washing Machines, No.5-Summary and Conclusion