Technology Designs Research Articles

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology Acceptance Analysis Using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

The growth of an industry growth couldn’t be separated from technology development. Nowadays, technology development mostly affected by digitalization, which brought us to industry 4.0 era. The same thing also occurs in construction industry, although its development relatively slower than the growth in manufacturing industry. Construction technology, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), 3D printing, and robotic equipments, has been introduced to construction industry. BIM is defined as digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle. However, in the end, technological development in Construction Industry depends on industry players’ readiness to accept and implement the most advance technology. This research’s focus is on BIM technology acceptance among players in Indonesia Construction Industry. The research will be conducted in Indonesia Construction Industry, data will be collected through questionnaires asked to the industry players, such as, consultants, project owners, and contractors who have already use BIM technology for their projects. The analysis will be conducted using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). TAM is a model which was developed to enhance our understanding about user acceptance of a technology, thus could enable technology designer and implementator to evaluate the system before it being implemented. The research’s result shows that Indonesia Construction Industry is able to accept BIM technology, the conclusion is taken because all the variables used in TAM has higher than 3 on 1 to 5 Likert scale. Path analysis also shows that Attitude Toward Usage variable do not affect Behavioral Intention variable. Direct, Indirect, and Total Effects analysis show that BIM technology acceptance is affected by Perceived of Usefulness. This result could be used as a basis to introduce BIM to new users, that people are more interested in its usefulness rather than ease of use variable.

“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored how everyday information and communication technology (EICT), such as online banking, e-shopping, or e-mail, are essential for individuals of all ages to maintain activity engagement, health, and well-being. Yet, older adults are often stereotypically portrayed as incapable, technophobic, or unwilling to engage in EICT. This may further contribute to the digital divide, as age stereotypes have the power to act like self-fulfilling prophecies and impede older adults' engagement in complex everyday life tasks. This study aimed to shed light on internalized ageism as manifested in older non-users' narrations about EICT use. It further explored how age stereotypes in the context of EICT are constructed and perpetuated through disempowering and ageist environments. A qualitative approach was applied, performing semi-structured interviews in participants' homes (N = 15). Data were analyzed following the principles of qualitative content analysis, applying both deductive categorization and inductive coding. Internalized ageism appeared to be an omnipresent element in older adults' narrations about EICT non-use. This was reflected in the four subcategories “competence and learning”, “relevance and use”, “technology design”, and “intergenerational contact”. Ageism, as manifested in the social environment and the design of technology, seemingly contributed to the internalization of age stereotypes and low EICT engagement. This research calls for inclusive technology designs, ageism-free EICT learning settings, and awareness campaigns about lifelong learning to help close the digital divide and ensure optimal aging experiences for older people.

Rapid design of inclusive wireless technologies: A participatory workshop process

ABSTRACT Wireless technology products and services play a significant role in our everyday lives. Great advances in design features have improved the accessibility and utility of these technologies for older adults and people with disabilities. Yet, there is still opportunity to ensure upcoming designers of wireless technologies consider how their design helps or hinders their product’s potential users. In this paper, we describe the evolution of a series of half-day participatory design workshops intended to expose student designers to real-world problem-solving alongside experts in the fields of aging and disability services and end users. Workshop attendees rapidly worked through an inclusive design process identifying and defining problems, considering the design requirements to meet the needs of various individuals, and finally designing and refining concepts to solve those problems. We describe the design of the workshops, iterations intended to improve on the experience, and our recommendations for conducting similar workshops

Home bias in international innovation systems: The emergence of dominant designs in the electric vehicle industry

The absence of a dominant design can impede the diffusion of environmental technologies. A certain degree of standardization is necessary so that firms are able to focus on process innovations that make the technology accessible to the masses. In this context, this paper studies how technological centrality and home bias in the innovation process influence the emergence of dominant designs in the mobility sector. An analysis of over 5000 electric-vehicle innovations shows that technological centrality hinders a dominant design from emerging. However, a bias in favor of innovations from the home continent mitigates this negative effect. Thus, innovations from East Asia do not consider European and U.S. innovations and vice versa. East Asian firms are different from both European and North American firms in how home bias affects the emergence of dominant designs. In East Asia, home bias has more impact on the emergence of dominant designs for central technologies than in other continents, while it has less impact for other technologies. Home bias is hence not only a firm-level mechanism, but also a helpful construct for the study of innovation systems. A lack of international standard cooperation might further influence future managerial and governmental decisions fostering developments towards cleaner technologies.

Анализ перспективных технологических схем подготовки воздуха в системах термостатирования стартовых комплексов

The purpose of the research is to perform a comparative analysis of compressed air preparation systems on the basis of moisture content. The article discusses conventional and perspective methods for drying compressed air using condensation, adsorption and membrane technologies. The article considers a temperature control system with the required dew point of minus 25°С at the exit under standard conditions, which corresponds to the dew point temperature plus 3 °С at a pressure of 1.0 MPa, or class 4 according to GOST R ISO 8573-1–2016. The main advantages of using advanced technological drying system designs are described, including the design of a modern drier with a rotary adsorber that can reduce the dew point temperature of compressed air to minus 25…30 °С at 1.0 MPa pressure without any losses on the adsorbent regeneration. This research is the first to analyze the applicability of modern adsorption and membrane modules to the launch complex functions. All the air drying designs were considered in this paper in relation to air temperature control systems based on air refrigerators using the I-d hygrometric chart for variable pressures.

Understanding interorganizational big data technologies: How technology adoption motivations and technology design shape collaborative dynamics

AbstractOrganizations increasingly employ big data technologies to capture, represent, and analyse complex operational processes at the organizational interface. This provides opportunities to learn about and optimize collaboration processes, which should increase cooperation. Yet, organizations may not learn equally, which could trigger learning races and thereby foster competitive dynamics. This multiple case study of 13 interorganizational relationships reveals four paths that explain how organizations’ technology adoption motivations and different technology designs conjoin to shape collaborative dynamics: where organizations pursue complementary motivations of learning and efficiency, collaborative dynamics are cooperative (path 1). Where organizations pursue shared learning motivations, interaction dynamics are cooperative if big data technologies provide shared analytical processing capability and symmetric transparency (path 2) or competitive where big data technologies provide shared analytical processing capability and asymmetric transparency (path 3) or non‐shared analytical processing capability regardless of transparency (a)symmetry (path 4). These findings advance strategic management literature by showing that big data technologies accelerate interorganizational learning, but that collaborative dynamics depend on organizations’ technology adoption motivations. I also advance learning race theory by introducing transparency as extension to learning races in digital environments.

High-throughput Near-Memory Processing on CNNs with 3D HBM-like Memory

This article discusses the high-performance near-memory neural network (NN) accelerator architecture utilizing the logic die in three-dimensional (3D) High Bandwidth Memory– (HBM) like memory. As most of the previously reported 3D memory-based near-memory NN accelerator designs used the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) memory, we first focus on identifying the key differences between HBM and HMC in terms of near-memory NN accelerator design. One of the major differences between the two 3D memories is that HBM has the centralized through- silicon-via (TSV) channels while HMC has distributed TSV channels for separate vaults. Based on the observation, we introduce the Round-Robin Data Fetching and Groupwise Broadcast schemes to exploit the centralized TSV channels for improvement of the data feeding rate for the processing elements. Using synthesized designs in a 28-nm CMOS technology, performance and energy consumption of the proposed architectures with various dataflow models are evaluated. Experimental results show that the proposed schemes reduce the runtime by 16.4–39.3% on average and the energy consumption by 2.1–5.1% on average compared to conventional data fetching schemes.

Ageism and Technology: The Role of Internalized Stereotypes

Ageist views have typically held that older persons are poor, frail, and resistant to change. One facet of this portrait of the older population has to do with their lower willingness and capability to learn and with their decreased openness to change (Cutler). Many of these ageist views are held by young people, resulting in a bias about the development and designs of different technologies. However, these same views are sometimes shared by older people themselves, resulting in a reluctance to adopt different technologies and the underestimation of their own performance or technology skills (Beckers et al.). In the current work, we analyze the reciprocal relationship between ageist stereotypes and technology, focusing on the implications of negative stereotypes of older people. We emphasize the self-fulfilling prophecy that technology, designed mostly by young people with the youth market in mind, creates prototypes that are more difficult for older people to use and algorithms that often fail to predict the habits, interests, and values of older people (Rosales and Fernández-Ardèvol). We also examine the role of stereotype threat impacting older people’s performance and technology adoption; for example, situation-specific anxiety when older people face younger adults who present greater digital skills (Ivan and Schiau).

Mobile Technologies and Healthy Ageing: A Bibliometric Analysis on Publication Trends and Knowledge Structure of mHealth Research for Older Adults

ABSTRACT The use of mHealth technologies can help to improve older adults’ quality of life, and this has generated more interest among the academic community. Publications in mHealth research have grown dramatically from 2011 to 2020, and this has prompted the current study to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in mHealth- and older-adult-related research. Data were extracted from 290 scientific articles identified from the Web of Science (WOS) database. Significant journals, authors, citations, countries, and research areas were then tabulated, and four important clusters of mHealth research were identified, namely, self-management and quality of life; physical activities and risk; behavior, adherence, and barriers; followed by adoption and acceptance of mHealth technologies. The outcome derived from this article serves as a suitable reference for future researchers in locating any research gaps in mHealth, and in detecting relevant articles needed for additional information. The analysis of this article highlighted older adults’ behavior, their needs, and the barriers faced in using mHealth technologies. This information would, therefore, be of benefit to technology designers in developing and promoting mobile applications and tools that are suitable for older adult usage.

Visual analytics for technology and innovation management

The awareness of emerging trends is essential for strategic decision making because technological trends can affect a firm’s competitiveness and market position. The rise of artificial intelligence methods allows gathering new insights and may support these decision-making processes. However, it is essential to keep the human in the loop of these complex analytical tasks, which, often lack an appropriate interaction design. Including special interactive designs for technology and innovation management is therefore essential for successfully analyzing emerging trends and using this information for strategic decision making. A combination of information visualization, trend mining and interaction design can support human users to explore, detect, and identify such trends. This paper enhances and extends a previously published first approach for integrating, enriching, mining, analyzing, identifying, and visualizing emerging trends for technology and innovation management. We introduce a novel interaction design by investigating the main ideas from technology and innovation management and enable a more appropriate interaction approach for technology foresight and innovation detection.

Innovation in breakthrough drugs and vaccines: Development risk, patient impact, and value

Innovation has a crucial role in developing breakthrough drugs and vaccines that can change patients’ lives. To better understand this role, we evaluated recent outcomes for assets developed using different types of innovation. Although all approaches have delivered breakthroughs, assets that modulate established biological targets with innovative scientific or technological designs provide a unique combination of reduced development risk, high patient impact, and high commercial value. This type of asset currently represents a relatively small proportion of approved drugs and vaccines, but we anticipate that an increasing body of scientific knowledge and ongoing technological advancements could offer opportunities to grow this category in the future.

Use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) in Colombia

Background and Aims: The use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) in Colombia is a new phenomenon. However, there has been an increase in recent years and without any apparent explanation, is necessary to understand the characteristics of the use of ENDS in Colombia. Methods: This research is a secondary analysis study based on data from the 2020 National Study of Psychoactive Substance Use in the Colombian territory, which uses a household survey methodology. The study sample includes 49,756 people (48.3% male, 51.8% female), between 12 and 65 years old, distributed in the 32 departments of the country. Results: Five percent of Colombians between 12 and 65 years of age have used ENDS at some time in their life (67.8% male). The 12- to 17-year-old group started at 14.6 years average and exists a higher proportion of tobacco smokers among ENDS users in all prevalence. Conclusions: The use of ENDS is growing probably because of new marketing strategies that involve novel details and that generate curiosity, especially in the youngest. Some of these are technological designs, pleasant smells and flavors or absence of them and how easy it can be to hide them and consume them in places where it is forbidden to do. So, many young people and adolescents who had not used nicotine before, now do. There is a knowledge gap about ENDS, therefore they can affect the work has been done for decades in reducing nicotine consumption among young people and be the gateway to the consumption of cigarettes or other substances (marijuana).

Modelling the performance potential of forced and natural-draft biomass cookstoves using a hybrid Entropy-TOPSIS approach

Improved biomass cookstoves have become significantly important as a major technological intervention to aid in the efficient use of biomass fuels. However, the transfer of such technologies to end users do not match the quantity of designs churned out to the market. This study therefore develops a new framework that simultaneously integrates technical, economic, social/public health and environmental factors in assessing the performance potential of biomass cookstoves. Experiments were conducted to determine 13 performance indicators of 20 (forced and natural draft) improved biomass cookstoves and application of the developed methodological framework indicated two main findings: (1) The forced draft cookstoves ranked better with technical and environmental factors while the natural draft cookstoves ranked better with economic and social/public health factors; (2) Considering all four performance indicators simultaneously, the natural draft cookstoves ranked better than the forced draft cookstoves. The results are of significant relevance to governments and organisations for identification of technological designs that should be improved or implemented from a sustainability perspective.

USAGE OF DIGITAL MODELS IN THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF COMPLEX-PROFILE CUTTING INSERTS MADE OF BLANKS WITH FLAT FACES

The article deals with the topic of cutting tools, which refers to high-tech, constantly improving products. Particular attention in the article is paid to modern trends in the development of cutting tools, including the design of new and improvement of existing designs of tools and technologies for its manufacture. The article is devoted to the topical problem of digital modelling of the cutting inserts that ensures favourable cutting conditions and stable shavings breakage during cutting. The article summarises new material on the practical experience of using digital models in the design of complex-profile inserts. The authors focus on the application of computer simulation of the sharpening operation. This allows to quickly change the geometry of the prototypes by changing the settings of the sharpening machine.

Stakeholder Perspectives to Support Graphical User Interface Design for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Study.

The development of digital supports for people with autism has increased considerably in recent years. Technology designers and developers have interpreted the needs and learning styles of people with autism in different ways. As a result, there are generic, non-specific or heterogeneous guidelines for the design and development of technology for people with autism. This study aims to identify and describe the recommended elements to support graphical user interface design for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), considering the stakeholders’ perspective, engaged in a computer application development. A qualitative, longitudinal, multicentre study was carried out. A sample of 39 participants belonging to four groups of stakeholders participated: children with autism, family members, professionals with experience in the intervention with children with autism, and professionals with expertise in the design and development of assistive technology. The techniques used to formalise the collection of information from participants were semi-structured interviews and observation. MAXQDA 2020 software (Verbi Software, Berlin, Germany) was used to analyse the data. The result is a guide with suggestions to support an interface design that emerges from the stakeholder perspectives. This study provides useful information to offer alternatives for children with ASD and facilitate the understanding of daily life.

Knowledge Management from Senior Users of Online Health Information Point of View

In today’s society, all citizens who need digital information to manage their everyday life must be able to access it and trust it. They should have enough knowledge to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) and online health information (OHI) in an intended and purposeful way. The broader aim of this paper is to present and discuss health knowledge management (KM) from senior users of the online health information point of view. The theoretical point of departure is based on an understanding of health, knowledge and the Internet as social practices. This paper investigates e-Health literacy (eHL) and KM in health amongst seniors aged 65-90. It presents a case study on how they access, apprais, share and apply OHI in comparison to the way they use face-to-face health-encounters. Data comes from 17 open-ended interviews. E-HL and KM concepts are used to analyse and describe online behaviour and knowledge management in health as an interplay between individual and social factors. The results show how participants engage in self- and co-management of their own or others' health and illustrate how they get or receive help to understand OHI. By examining how they use ICT and do (not) trust OHI regarding “serious cases,” this paper provides critical insight into ways seniors acquire information and how they appraise, understand or trust in it. Their information-seeking activities are performed mainly in private settings, seldom with professionals. They have lower levels of trust in their own, individual appraisal skills, compared to collective searches and discussions. Norwegian seniors are cool and pragmatic, and emphatic on the “when needs must, see your GP!”. By examining differences in ICT use, knowledge acquisition and support given or received, the results pinpoint how providers must affirm seniors’ ICT use and individual and collective online health behaviour as assets for healthy ageing. A potential barrier for citizens’ use of OHI and health technology is the built-in understanding of health as an individual capacity and ICT use as an individual activity, compared to a contemporary understanding of health and the Internet as social practices and collective resources. Designers of health technologies and OHI should critically consider built-in understandings of content and users to enhance accessibility and value for citizens of all ages.

Is Architecture Connected with Intangible Cultural Heritage? Reflections from Architectural Digital Documentation and Interactive Application Design in Three Aegean Islands

The research project “Mouseion Topos” (in English: “Museums Place”), focusing on traditional local settlements situated at three Aegean islands, aims to contribute to the promotion of their physiognomy and intangible cultural heritage by connecting regional museums with each settlement. The present article, part of the project’s initial phase, via the application of the HERMeS methodology (version 1 and 2) and the development of the associate digital documentation tools, identifies and records the architectural and urban elements influenced by each settlement’s intangible cultural heritage as listed by UNESCO and presented by their corresponding museums. The research findings revealed connections between the museums’ content and the documented tangible heritage based on the formulated conceptual and heatmaps, which can be used at the early design stages of the current project’s interactive applications, especially in mobile tours. Finally, the research findings verify that despite the limitations and issues for further research, the introduced HERMeS methodology and digital tools are reliable and contribute to the respective field’s theory. The paper also provides beneficial deliberation on digital architectural heritage documentation methods and interactive technologies, highlighting points and areas of interest that the tourist industry, technology designers, museum curators, and architects can employ.

Joint Action Storyboards

Building and maintaining common ground is vital for effective collaboration in CSCW. Moreover, subtle changes in a CSCW user interface can significantly impact grounding and collaborative processes. Yet, researchers and technology designers lack tools to understand how specific user interface designs may hinder or facilitate communication grounding. In this work, we leverage the well-established theory of communication grounding to develop a visual framework, called Joint Action Storyboards (JASs), to analyze and articulate how interaction minutiae impact the costs of communication grounding. JASs can depict an integrated view of mental actions of collaborators, their physical interactions with each other and the CSCW environment, and the corresponding grounding costs incurred. We present the development of JASs and discuss its various benefits for HCI and CSCW research. Through a series of case studies, we demonstrate how JASs provide an analysis tool for researchers and technology designers and serve as a tool to articulate the impact of interaction minutiae on communication grounding.

Aging and technology: understanding the issues and creating a base for technology designers

The world's population continues to increase, and now we have more aged and aging people than ever before. As people age, many of them develop health problems that impede their independence. Fortunately, the fast pace of contemporary technology provides new ways to overcome health barriers faced by the aged. Considering the countless number of efforts made in aging and technology, the time has come to reorganise and combine the two fields and reveal the most disciplined and innovative technological approaches in a partnership designed to help the elderly. In this paper, age-related health issues are discussed and organised. Then, each health issue is examined in terms of what technological solutions are available to improve the health of the elderly. As a result, a solid base for technology designers is established to encourage them, direct their effort, and enrich their knowledge on solutions for ever-increasing practical applications in the field.

Beyond the Command

Machines, from artificially intelligent digital assistants to embodied robots, are becoming more pervasive in everyday life. Drawing on feminist science and technology studies (STS) perspectives, we demonstrate how machine designers are not just crafting neutral objects, but relationships between machines and humans that are entangled in human social issues such as gender and power dynamics. Thus, in order to create a more ethical and just future, the dominant assumptions currently underpinning the design of these human-machine relations must be challenged and reoriented toward relations of justice and inclusivity. This paper contributes the "social machine" as a model for technology designers who seek to recognize the importance, diversity and complexity of the social in their work, and to engage with the agential power of machines. In our model, the social machine is imagined as a potentially equitable relationship partner that has agency and as an "other" that is distinct from, yet related to, humans, objects, and animals. We critically examine and contrast our model with tendencies in robotics that consider robots as tools, human companions, animals or creatures, and/or slaves. In doing so, we demonstrate ingrained dominant assumptions about human-machine relations and reveal the challenges of radical thinking in the social machine design space. Finally, we present two design challenges based on non-anthropomorphic figuration and mutuality, and call for experimentation, unlearning dominant tendencies, and reimagining of sociotechnical futures.