We investigated elder's physical and mental characteristics at their life environment, the use conditions of the Basin at the special nursing home for the elderly. Based on those results, we designed unsymmetrical Basin which even general facilities could be used, through the case study at special nursing home for the elderly "Dai-Ni Zuiko no Sato" in Handa-city, Aichi, which "Care Unit Method" is applicable to.

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Toshiba LCD TV "beautiful FACE" realizes high quality picture by newly developed circuit board and equipped internet browser, is developed and launched in the market at March 2004 as a new generation LCD TV. In user research most users who want to buy the LCD TV answer that they consider the design more, such as a harmony with the atmosphere of the room, as well as the performance and the price, compare with the conventional tube type TV. This report introduces the design development which incorporated various tools of analysis into the process. The demands of users were specified by compared with designer's proposal as hypothesis to drop and concrete the design specification of this product.

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Fuji electric Group is one of the most famous Ultra-Sonic Flow-Meter products companies in Japan. Our new product, Hybrid Ultra-Sonic Flow-Meter, have solved the issue that the conventional Ultra-Sonic Flow-Meter can't measure the flow which includes the ultra-sonic reflector such as air bubbles. Through the development of this product, we have tried to develop the image of this product design before building up the technology. This project was supported by cooperative works of engineers and designers. This style of development broke the traditional development process. As the result, this developing process is very effective to reduce the developing term comparing with past developing process.

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The livery designs of industrial products are often aken for granted and undervalued more than the design of the body. In this report, however, it reveals how the new Japanese search and rescue amphibian was designed, which is famous for its capability as the best aircraft in the world. By the process of examining the problems of old designs, features for the new one were extracted, and combined the functions of its color, form, and feeling together. This amphibian was presented with a new design to the world to suit to the new generation.

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Most of public signage design used be intended to provide to reach tourist destination efficiently. This project focused on the new public-signage-system at Satoyama-Promenade in Chikura-machi for the sake of enjoying walking the area and finding many charms which had scattered while walking. By using a questionnaire, interview and observation of user's walking behavior, it is clear that the intended plan is effective.

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It is the new-building plan of a mental daycare house. This work was designed from the user's viewpoint, "hospitality of space" to the concept for this daycare house aiming at social rehabilitation of the person who left the mental hospital. The design method for building the space suited the purpose by pursuing the concept consistently from space composition to environmental planning, structure planning, lighting planning, color planning and use material, is proposed.

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Although the Japanese Character consist of a form of a brush fundamentally, the softness was lost after spreading a digital font. This is based on digitaled data that sense of incongruity is more impressed by its detail shapened and liner portion, as compared with phototypesetting character. Compared with progress of DTP etc., Japanese fonts have many characters such as 7000 or more characters. For this reason, time is behind development. As one of graphic designer, font development of Original Engineering which can use for advertisements (printed matter, TV, etc.) and an editorial relation orthodoxly widely is planned. A family is commercialized following on old S-Min Midium. Ten years were required to development and design.

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We developed an application software called Thinking-Sketch. This software is for "creating design images through the mutual interaction between human user and computer." ThinkingSketch is differed from existing research on image generating software with the point that user can control the behavior of computer program. On a graphic editing tool, we equipped an image layouting feature using random numbers. User can control the rules on how to apply the random number to layout. By changing parameters, user can easily get another series of different images with different tastes. Before the image generation, user creates seed patterns with free hand mouse operation. These seed patterns will be modified and placed with above rule, and thus user can semi automatically generate various design images. (figure 1)

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In the coming age of digital multi-channel TV broadcasting, it will be very difficult for viewers to choose which of the many programs available that they most want to watch. This is especially true with longer-running narrative programs, like movies, in which case it is difficult to convey the essentials of taste and emotion with only text-based program guides, and where the risk to viewers is especially great when purchasing from pay-per-view channels. To resolve this problem, this study proposes a narrative program browser, intended for use with movies and other programs that are based on a rich and varied story line. The program browser enables viewers to select programs intuitively by watching trailers, thus enabling a new way of viewing and enjoying programs. As the basis of this research, studies were conducted on the Semantic Score (SS) Method for describing the cognitive constructs of movie viewing and on a video summarization algorithm based on that method.

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The instructions for contributors to this journal have been mentioned in the No.142 of the Bulletin of JSSD Japanese. When you contribute your papers to this journal, you should use an application form on the backside of this page. You can copy and use the form. Additionally, the regulaions for contribution to this journal are mostly in accordance with the regulations for the Japanese edition. The Bulletin of JSSD accepts any qualified article motivated by general interests in "Design", irrespective of the field, the topic or the method of researth. The contributor must be the member of JSSD except when contributing in collaboration with other authors, the first author must be the member or a honorable member of JSSD.

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In the development of Stick Style Pointing Device, We processed UCD (User Centered Design), defined by IBM corp. We had various user surveys while in early phases of development, and defined target task obviously. And also, we studied the design and evaluated each phase based on the target user and task. We tried to develop User experience design approach also. Above all, we get better customer satisfactions than previous.

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