Innovative Product Design Research Articles

Product Styling Cognition Based on Kansei Engineering Theory and Implicit Measurement

Effective product styling designs must increasingly address users’ emotional requirements. This study introduces a product styling design method combining electroencephalography (EEG) and eye tracking for multimodal measurement based on the Kansei engineering theory. The feasibility of determining a target image using a similarity calculation model is verified. An experimental paradigm based on implicit measures is presented for product styling cognition research. This paradigm involves determining the target image, sample selection, target image matching experiments, and product styling cognition experiments. Based on the combined EEG and eye-tracking measurements, insights into product-form cognition are deduced to provide a scientific basis for product-form innovation design. Notably, variations in event-related potential during user cognition of product styling are more evident in the product-styling perception phase than in the evaluation phase. In the styling perception phase, samples with “high match” with the target image elicit more pronounced EEG responses than those with “low match”. These findings demonstrate the viability of understanding product-form cognition through multimodal implicit measurements, addressing issues such as the pronounced subjectivity inherent in traditional methods. Furthermore, this approach provides a pioneering technique for Kansei engineering research and offers a methodology for multimodal implicit measurements of product innovation design.

Measuring the Impact of ChatGPT on Fostering Concept Generation in Innovative Product Design

The growing demand for innovative and user-centric product design has led to a growing need for effective idea generation methods. In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) tools such as ChatGPT have emerged as a promising solution for supporting idea generation in various domains. This paper investigates a framework for studying the role of ChatGPT in facilitating the ideation process in product design. This investigation measures the impact of ChatGPT on the generation of innovative concepts compared to the use of “classic” design methods. An overview of the state-of-the-art idea generation methods in product design opens the paper. Then, the paper highlights some hypotheses about the impact of ChatGPT on innovative product design, aiming for product augmentation by adding features. The paper then describes the design experience in which ChatGPT is used as a tool for concept generation. Finally, the paper analyzes the dataset, using precise metrics to characterize the participants’ performance and compare them. This analysis allows the paper to argue about the validation/rejection of the hypotheses. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings and some suggestions for future research. Along with the paper, the Microsoft Excel workbook used to perform the data analysis is available to the readers to perform their own data collection and analysis. The workbook UX has been carefully studied and developed to make it usable by anyone. At the same time, it should be flexible enough to manage several situations characterized by different numbers of participants, product functions to implement, and generated concepts.

“Mamuli” Pattern in East Sumba Woven Fabric as Inspiration For “Kandunnu” Standing Lamp Using the IMOE Method

Inspiration is a crucial factor in the conception and development of innovative design products. In the contemporary creative world, an innovative product transcends mere aesthetic factors, encompassing intrinsic values. This study investigates a framework for transforming Mamuli pattern, found in East Sumba woven fabric, into a contemporary and innovative product, in the form of a standing lamp. This effort aimed to guide designers and design students in the precise and effective transformation of local culture. Innovation was done through materialization, observation and experimentation (IMOE). They were applied to cultural artifacts, structured across four levels, namely the inner, middle, outer, and experimental. The experimental element assumed a central role in the methodology. The inner level encompassed the meanings and symbols of the cultural artifact (Mamuli pattern), while the middle level involved its creative process. The outer level represented the physical appearance, including materials, colors, and ornaments. The experimental element involved the creative process of transforming the cultural artifact into a contemporary form. The experiment targeted designers and design students, facilitating the creation of contemporary products through a culturally-sensitive transformation, fostering innovations. Developed through an ethno-mathematical theory and experimental folding techniques, it generated experimental innovative product designs. It transformed Mamuli pattern from East Sumba woven fabric into Kandunnu standing lamp, drawing inspiration from both the outer and inner levels.

Research on the Modeling of Series Lighting Products based on Natural Elements in Bionic Design

In modern lighting design, more and more designers use bionic design for product innovation. The article divides the bionic design into three dimensions: whole, part, and detail. On this basis, it proposes simplified bionic and structural redesign. Bionic and texture reorganization are three methods, and the feasibility of the three methods is confirmed through case studies. The simplified bionic method is applied to the actual series of lamps and lanterns design. Rhino and KeyShot are used for 3D modeling and rendering. The final design A series of lamps have been produced to confirm that the design method in the article is effective, and I hope it will be helpful to future lamp designers.

Universal Design in Kitchen Furniture: A Case Study on Enhancing Accessibility and Safety for the Elderly and People with Mobility Challenges

Universal Design in Kitchen Furniture: A Case Study on Enhancing Accessibility and Safety for the Elderly and People with Mobility Challenges. The paper aims to explore the application of universal design principles in the development of kitchen furniture that promotes accessibility, safety, and independence for the elderly and individuals with mobility challenges. The study presents how innovative product design can contribute to the creation of an inclusive and barrier-free environment, emphasizing the importance of researchand development works in this under-studied area. The results of the field tests that involved 200 participants with various types of disabilities, including people with motor challenges, are presented. The test results showed that the kitchen prototype developed by JATI company is comfortable and functional for the majority of test participants. The prototype has its undeniable strengths, nevertheless, several possible improvements were found during the field tests that could further improve the functionality and accessibility of the furniture for the elderly and individuals with special needs. Those are presented in the paper to inspire other furniture designers and manufacturers to create products that meet the needs and requirements of those essential society groups.

Development of Artistic and Creative Activities for Design Students

The main purpose of this scientific study is to identify key areas for the development of the artistic and creative activity of students studying the basics of design in higher educational institutions, which contributes to improving their creative abilities and developing the ability to create an innovative product design. The basis of the methodological approach in this scientific study is a combination of methods of systematic analysis of the key principles of teaching design in modern higher educational institutions with a comprehensive study of the real prospects for the introduction of innovative solutions in the process of teaching design in order to develop artistic and creative activity among future specialists in this profession. The results are the importance of developing modern students’ artistic and creative activity for design departments of higher educational institutions to improve their skills in creating artistic product design and the ability to develop innovative design were obtained. Also, the results illustrate the success of applying specific methods of training designers to implement the tasks. The practical significance of the results obtained in this research work lies in the possibility of their application in the process of teaching students of design departments of modern higher education institutions to develop their understanding of the principles of artistic design and the ability to transfer such skills to the creation of modern products with innovative design.

SMFM-based analogy retrieval tool for the conceptual design of innovative products

Design-by-Analogy (DbA) is a powerful approach to innovative conceptual design. Cross-domain analogies are the stimulated sources of inspiration for generating new concepts. Therefore, how to efficiently retrieve them becomes an essential issue to be solved. This paper proposes a tool based on a structure-mapping function model (SMFM) for analogy retrieval. Inspired by the structure-mapping theory, SMFM considers two in-depth features: functional relation and causal relation between functions, which are expressed by function and meta-function concepts, respectively. SMFM serves to capture design knowledge from instances (i.e., engineering or biological systems) to establish a case database. The SMFM ontology is constructed for linking knowledge representation and analogy retrieval. Its meta-function, function, and flow terms are used to index the modeled instances so as to establish an index database. Analogy retrieval is realized by the ontology-based query expansion, vector space model and weighted cosine similarity. By inputting function or meta-function queries, we retrieve the required cross-domain analogies, whose design knowledge is displayed by function models to inspire target functions or meta-functions realization. Finally, the tool is evaluated for its effectiveness in cross-domain analogies retrieval. An application example illustrates its practicality in aiding innovative design. Additionally, an experiment was conducted to test the tool. The results indicate that our tool can assist users (e.g., engineering designers) to more quickly generate new schemes to realize target meta-functions and the quality of schemes is higher.

EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF GENERATIVE STIMULI ON THE CREATIVITY OF DESIGNERS IN COMBINATIONAL DESIGN

AbstractThe ideation process has a significant impact on the initial concept generation and final product creativity of the design. Visual stimuli play an important role in the process of innovative product design. With the increase in computing capability, generative design methods are widely implemented. In this paper, features of design targets and combinational objects in 2 combinational design tasks are fused using adversarial neural generative networks to form the generated stimuli. It is also used with combinational object pictures to investigate the impact on creativity in design ideation. The study invited designers to use and subjectively self-evaluate the two stimuli in a design task. Through analysis of participant data (n=20), the results showed that the generative stimuli had an advantage over the combinational image stimuli in terms of the smoothness of creativity in the design ideation of outcomes. And there is a positive correlation between designers' years of design education and their tendency to prefer generative stimuli. Based on the results obtained, ideas are provided for the study of the influence of visual and generative stimuli on the designer's ideation process.

Promoting active aging through assistive product design innovation: a preference-based integrated design framework.

With the accelerating trend of global aging, over one billion people need to use one or more types of assistive products. However, the high abandonment rate of current assistive products is affecting the quality of life of the older adults, posing challenges to public health. Accurately capturing the preference factors of the older adults in the design process is an important way to improve the acceptance of assistive products. In addition, a systematic approach is needed to translate these preference factors into innovative product solutions. These two issues are less addressed in existing research. First, the evaluation grid method was used to conduct in-depth interviews with users and extract the structure of preference factors for assistive products. Quantification theory type I was used to calculate the weight of each factor. Secondly, universal design principles, TRIZ theory's contradiction analysis techniques, and invention principles were used to translate the preference factors into design guidelines. Then, finite structure method (FSM), morphological chart, and CAD techniques were used to visualize the design guidelines as alternatives. Finally, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to evaluate and rank the alternatives. A Preference-based Assistive Product Design Model (PAPDM) was proposed. The model includes three stages: definition, ideation, and evaluation. A case study on walking aid demonstrated the execution of PAPDM. The results show that 28 preference factors influence the four psychological needs of the older adults: sense of security, sense of independence, self-esteem, and sense of participation. These psychological needs were reflected in the shape, color, material, universality, user-friendly, reliability, and smart functions of assistive products. The preference factors were transformed into five design guidelines, and three alternatives were generated. Finally, the evaluation concludes that solution C was the optimal solution. The PAPDM framework provides designers with a transparent, progressive approach to designing assistive products that meet unique needs and preferences of older adults. This enhances objectivity and scientific rigor in assistive product development, avoiding blind design and production. By considering the perspective of older adults from the outset, we can avoid high abandonment rates of assistive products and contribute to promoting active aging.

30‐4: Distinguished Paper: Design of Outdoor LED Ground Display System in Major Scenes

LED ground display system, as an important outdoor display system in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 24th Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, has brought spectacular and gorgeous artistic presentation to the world. Compared with the traditional outdoor display system, this display system has many innovations in display product design, control system design and field implementation. This paper gives detail introduction to the ground display system, especially about the innovative product design, high reliability design, color correction and on site implementation of the semicircular display area on both sides. It provides a successful design case for world class large‐scale outdoor display system.

USA experience in equipping the infrastructure of medical institutions with information technologies as an element of design thinking

The article deals with one topical area of work in the field of design in healthcare — the introduction of innovations, IT technologies in medical organizations. The experience of the United States in this area will allow us to understand how design thinking has been developing recently and what development we can expect from it in the near future. The article begins with the introduction of electronic health records in hospitals as a fairly large example of innovation. Of course, as in all IT technologies that have not passed the long test of time, this system has its drawbacks, which are highlighted in the article. The definition of the concept of “systemic risk” is given with the transfer of its essence to the realities in medical organizations. The importance of user experience in the process of implementing certain design solutions is indicated. A new branch of design in medicine is UX design. The emerging tools in this area provide even more inspiration for the design of various innovative products, such as, for example, mobile applications, automatic systems used in their work by doctors, etc. The main trend in the development of future design in healthcare will be consumer orientation.

Innovation as a catalyst for Moonj artisans: a case of Rekhaakriti

Learning outcomes The readers will gain practical insights on the key attributes of a women entrepreneur, the role of innovative product design and usage, the core challenges and opportunities and the strategies to overcome entrepreneurial hurdles in the Moonj handicraft business. Case overview/synopsis The case is about “Rekhaakriti”, a handicraft artisan-oriented firm, which deals in the business of selling handicrafts items like traditional wooden toys, Moonj baskets, rice bowls and vermilion boxes, in both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets. Incorporated as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in the year 2014, “Rekhaakriti” was founded with the purpose of preserving, promoting and advancing the Moonj handicraft. Throughout its formative years, the organization experienced several organizational and operational challenges and got almost on the edge of collapse. The dilemma that surrounded Rekha Sinha, a key founding member of “Rekhaakriti”, was whether to carry or dissolve the organization. But, after much contemplation, she decided to convert the organization to a sole proprietorship firm in the year 2017. However, the restructuring decision was also proving to become less effective in attaining the objectives for which the firm got established. This led the owner, Rekha Sinha, to further dug deep to identify obstacles (both internal and external) that impede her firm’s expansion and growth. This case narrates Rekha Sinha's intricate entrepreneurial path in building an innovative handicraft organization and explains how she overcame the overall organizational and operational obstacles. The case provides the context for students to assume the role of protagonist and explore creative strategies for overcoming market obstacles through upskilling, design intervention and product innovation. Complexity academic level The case study is intended for the students pursuing their graduation and post-graduation courses in business, management studies, marketing and entrepreneurship. The case also provides suitable insights to management trainees and executives. Supplementary material Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 8: Marketing.

Acquisition Method of User Requirements for Complex Products Based on Data Mining

The vigorous development of big data technology has changed the traditional user requirement acquisition mode of the manufacturing industry. Based on data mining, manufacturing enterprises have the innovation ability to respond quickly to market changes and user requirements. However, in the stage of complex product innovation design, a large amount of design data has not been effectively used, and there are some problems of low efficiency and lack of objectivity of user survey. Therefore, this paper proposes an acquisition method of user requirements based on patent data mining. By constructing a patent data knowledge base, this method combines the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model and a K-means algorithm to cluster patent text data to realize the mining of key functional requirements of products. Then, the importance of demand is determined by rough set theory, and the rationality of demand is verified by user importance performance analysis. In this paper, the proposed method is explained and verified by mining the machine tool patent data in CNKI. The results show that this method can effectively improve the efficiency and accuracy of user requirements acquisition, expand the innovative design approach of existing machine tool products, and be applied to other complex product fields with strong versatility.

Design of outdoor LED ground display system in major scenes

AbstractLED ground display system, as an important outdoor display system in major scenes such as some international performance events or interactive display system, has brought spectacular and gorgeous artistic effect to the audience. According to the customized design and the effort we made, this world class super large‐scale outdoor display system has realized successfully at the beginning of the year 2022 in Beijing. This LED ground display system has many innovation in product design, control system design, and field implementation especially for the need of super high reliability, high environmental suitability, convenient installability, 4,500 m2 super large display area, very complex system integration, and long service time. This paper indicates the detail introduction of the ground display system, specially focuses on the high reliability product design, high display performance design, system reliability design, field implementation, and actual verification results of the semi‐circular display area on both sides of the stage. Meanwhile, some simulation technologies are used in this design related to optics, mechanics, and so on. Furthermore, under the special application environment, to ensure the reliability of the outdoor display system, a dynamic screen preheating method according to temperature change is proposed and proved effectively by practice.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF MOTORCYCLES EMERGENCY WHEELS EQUIPMENT USING THE DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY (DFA) METHOD

Motorcycles are a popular mode of transportation that people widely use to facilitate their daily activities. Behind the advantage, motorcycles also have disadvantages. As we often encounter or even experience ourselves, namely tire leaks. Riding a motorcycle with a punctured tire can exacerbate and endanger the user. Thus, the motorcycle must be pushed manually to the workshop for repairs which will undoubtedly require a lot of time and effort. Moreover, motorcycle users will feel tired and uncomfortable. From these issues, a solution was devised as a motorcycle emergency wheel tool. This tool's function is to support the leaking part of the motorcycle wheel and is inserted into the device that has been made so that the leaking tire is not damaged. The method used is designed for assembly (DFA). This method aims to study the processes and products of competitors in terms of design, quality, selection of materials, components, and production processes and then evaluate the assembly of manufactured products to design superior products. Based on the results of the development of a motorcycle emergency wheel tool that has been carried out, the innovative product is proven to have a lower price with a difference of Rp. 22,000 from the earliest product price. The assembly efficiency, earlier worth 0.9062 or 90.62%, can be reduced to 0.8169 or 81.69% by implementing innovative product designs.

Research on digital characterization and identification process model of functional genes for intelligent innovative design

The inheritance and variation of functional knowledge is an important way to achieve product innovation. Analogous biological genetic inheritance can solve the problems with the inheritance and variation of functional knowledge. However, the different expressions of functional knowledge in different domains lead designers to consuming a lot of time for functional knowledge characterization and identification, which reduces the efficiency of functional knowledge application. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of inefficient application of functional knowledge in the genetic process caused by irregular expression of functional knowledge, the paper proposes a digital characterization and identification process model of functional genes for product intelligent innovative design. The process model enables product intelligent innovative design through digital characterization of functional genes and rapid identification of functional genes using computer assistance. The process model consists of four following steps. First, extract functional knowledge from patents and perform preliminary functional gene characterization. Second, characterize functional genes digitally by using computerized digital coding techniques. Third, identify the required functional genes by using image similarity matching algorithm. It assists designers to quickly identify the functional genes required for the target system. Fourth, obtain the target product design scheme. By “transcribing” and “translating” the required functional genes and using TRIZ tools to solve the translated scheme, the product innovative design scheme is finally obtained. The feasibility and effectiveness of the model are verified by the intelligent innovative design of shared bicycle parking management device.

USA experience in equipping the infrastructure of medical institutions with information technology as an element of design thinking

The article deals with one topical area of work in the field of design in healthcare — the introduction of innovations, IT technologies in medical organizations. The experience of the United States in this area will allow us to understand how design thinking has been developing recently and what development we can expect from it in the near future. The article begins with the introduction of electronic health records in hospitals as a fairly large example of innovation. Of course, as in all IT technologies that have not passed the long test of time, this system has its drawbacks, which are highlighted in the article. The definition of the concept of "systemic risk" is given with the transfer of its essence to the realities in medical organizations. The importance of user experience in the process of implementing certain design solutions is indicated. A new branch of design in medicine is UX design. The emerging tools in this area provide even more inspiration for the design of various innovative products, such as, for example, mobile applications, automatic systems used in their work by doctors, etc. The main trend in the development of future design in healthcare will be consumer orientation.

Sustainable Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications.

Significant progress in nanotechnology has enormously contributed to the design and development of innovative products that have transformed societal challenges related to energy, information technology, the environment, and health. A large portion of the nanomaterials developed for such applications is currently highly dependent on energy-intensive manufacturing processes and non-renewable resources. In addition, there is a considerable lag between the rapid growth in the innovation/discovery of such unsustainable nanomaterials and their effects on the environment, human health, and climate in the long term. Therefore, there is an urgent need to design nanomaterials sustainably using renewable and natural resources with minimal impact on society. Integrating sustainability with nanotechnology can support the manufacturing of sustainable nanomaterials with optimized performance. This short review discusses challenges and a framework for designing high-performance sustainable nanomaterials. We briefly summarize the recent advances in producing sustainable nanomaterials from sustainable and natural resources and their use for various biomedical applications such as biosensing, bioimaging, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. Additionally, we provide future perspectives into the design guidelines for fabricating high-performance sustainable nanomaterials for medical applications.

Research on a complex network and online review data-driven product innovation design

As a significant conduit for online word-of-mouth, product online reviews (PORs) play a vital function for businesses and prospective customers. However, enormous and diversified comment data has resulted in a severe information overload for users, making it impossible for organizations and consumers to make quick, sensible decisions based on complex data. In this research, PORS content is the node, the semantic similarity between content is the weight of links, and, in conjunction with the idea of a complex network (CN), a PORs network is formed and a framework for the production of data-driven (DD) design concepts is given. The optimization target is determined based on the clustering results, and the feature coding of the optimization target is performed to replicate the psychological assessment mechanism of users. The research demonstrates that when the novelty threshold is set to 0.5, the F-score reaches its maximum value of 0.935%, indicating that the algorithm performs at its peak. When the novelty threshold is set at 0.8, the algorithm’s accuracy achieves 0.954%. The practicability and efficacy of the proposed approach are examined.

A fuzzy MCDM approach to support customer-centric innovation in virtual reality (VR) metaverse headset design

Nowadays, customer-centric innovation is important in affective design, leading to the design and development of a product that fits the needs of a group of target customers for sales and marketing. Though there is much research on customer-centric innovation and affective product design, designing a novel and innovative product that appeals to customers remains difficult. This is not only due to the difficulty of knowing a customer's preference, enabling the product functionality, etc., but it is also very complex to optimize both the technical and aesthetical design factors and parameters for a group of customers. The technical design specification is one of the critical aspects in designing innovative technological products. In fact, a similar group of target customers usually has hidden preferences that provide us with clues for identifying the design of a product. To this end, we propose a sophisticated optimization technique using the Hybrid Fuzzy-based Analytical Hierarchy Process and the Integral-based Taguchi Method called the Fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach to determine the essential factors and design parameters in order to understand the preferences of customers and the technical requirements of engineers for designing the enclosure of a product. We demonstrate our methodology using the virtual reality (VR) Headset, which can be used for visualizing the metaverse in the virtual environment. The fuzzy MCDM approach suggested combines technical and aesthetical features to enhance the robustness of product design.