Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design
Online ISSN : 2186-5221
Print ISSN : 0910-8173
ISSN-L : 0910-8173
Volume 55, Issue 3
Displaying 1-12 of 12 articles from this issue
  • Dae Woong Son, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Takayuki Higuchi
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 1-10
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    This article reflects on Shinji Koike's activities in the 1940's using his writings as its fundamental resource. From the 1930's Shinji Koike had been analyzing and introducing many resources that he had collected at the "Central Overseas Culture Agency" which he had founded after devoting himself to the ideas and methods of modern design that were developing in Europe. Then after taking up the posts of the head of the planning office and appointed engineer at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the 1940's, he stressed to the world the necessity of a rise and development of "new industrial arts" that would surpass traditional "industrial arts" by planning various displays and exhibitions as well as writing. The new ground level for the future of "industrial arts" that was depicted by Koike, who called for a "farewell to industrial arts," was truly the world of industrial design that planned for the humanization of industry during the arrival of the industrial age. Koike's activities at this time contributed greatly to the social spread of industrial design in Japan.
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  • Koshi Hoshino, Daewoong Kim
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 11-20
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    Today, there are as many as about 5,360 cultural facilities in Japan, and most of them are facing severe shortages of human resources and funds due to the decreasing number of visitors and financial cutbacks. This requires the domestic museums to develop the base of long-time visitors from now by closely working with the local communities, especially schools. In the educational field, the Course of Study was revised in 1998 to incorporate the new section of "appreciation" training. Because this"appreciation" training requires expertise, there are various efforts underway. Therefore, museum staffs and schoolteachers should recognize the professional positions of each other once again, and actively enhance their mutual cooperation. However, there are many difficulties with their cooperation, and solutions to these problems are essential. This research examines the practical classroom activity that uses the Internet and the web appreciation materials directed by a teacher in collaboration with Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art. By evaluating and verifying the activity results, this research also discusses the effects of the digital museum as another "virtual" space-"alternative space."
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  • Koichiro Moribe
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 21-30
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    As the information oriented society is making progress today, we are expected to give our students the image education using computer networks and visual equipment. When they cultivate their abilities of organizing the information, a situation map may be useful. It is like the graphic organizer which helps you to organize memories. I assume that strengthening and holding the cohesion of the mental representation in their minds can help learners to prepare to visualize their images. So I researched how much influence situation maps give to learners, and what kinds of problems there are in making situation maps. I researched the students studying Information Education. Through this research, it was made c I ear that a situation mode I based on the situation map is effective, despite the difficulties in visualizing sentences, developing plots based on images, and grasping constructions of the work.
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  • Mitsunori Kubo, Fumio Terauchi, Hiroyuki Aoki, Katsuhito Furusawa
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 31-36
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    The vibration behaviors of human body sitting in car seats that were made of polyurethane foam were simulated with a 3D digital human model using the finite element method. In this study, the experiments for evaluating riding comfort to the real seats and the numerical simulations with the digital human model which was developed to reproduce the real-seat-experiments were carried out in order to elucidate the relationships between the physical characteristics of the human body and the riding comfort. As a result, the human body vibrates mainly in the vertical direction at 2 and 4Hz, while the body tends to vibrate in the horizontal direction, in which it was confirmed that the behaviors were a coupling vibration to the vertical external periodical force according to the results of the simulation with the digital human model.
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  • Ayako Chikawa, Nobuyuki Hiruma, Yoshikatsu Tada
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 37-44
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    We have made the drawing experiment to clarify quantitative differences in the behavior of infant who doesn't feel uncomfortable drawing between computer-supported drawing and conventional drawing on paper. The results were analyzed by combining the well-known "Time Sampling Observation method" and "Event Sampling Observation method." It revealed several results: (1) infants could construct the familiar environment like drawing on paper when they drew with computer, (2) the difference behavior was found when the infants changed color pens; it showed the possibility of the effect on the infant's creative work by using tool, (3) the unnatural behavior by drawing software such as often clicking the color icons was found. It also showed the serious problem on the infant's cognitive property. It is considered that these results are very important findings and will be helpful for developing the infant's drawing interfaces.
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  • Haidong Wang, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Akira Ueda
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 45-54
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    This paper is based on the collection of the information about the traditional birch-bark products, and the classification is carried out by use-function. From the correlation with the shape, material, recipe and content, the peculiarity of the manufacture is also considered as follows: 1. The Oroqin People neither waste the birch-bark nor make the birth dead when cutting. So there has been no infection due to the strict rule for growth, which describes (nature, human, coexistence, and symbiosis). 2. The products are classified into eight categories, each category has its own peculiarity and the common peculiarities are: 1) no transformation, 2) no break, 3) high resistance of humidity, 4) light weight, 5)high durability. 3. The products not only play an important role in daily life but also contain the aesthetic consciousness,the idea of life,religious belief and so on.
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  • Mineteru Omori
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 55-62
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    In this paper, we estimated that how students understand and grasp a housing plan in the light of period of learning architecture, procedure of grasping the plan, and method by eye fixation characteristics. The results were summarized as follows. 1) The new students can not understand housing plan easily. But, it was objectively confirmed that the more time the students spend on their specialized studies (degree of skill), the more accurately they understand them. 2) The glance tracks (eye fixation place ) of lower-grade students tend to concentrate on a specific part. In contrast, upper-grade students tend to watch them uniformly. 3) Lower-grade students understand the entire drawing by gathering partial information. And upper-grade students understand the detail after having caught the whole information. We observed such a tendency.
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  • Hiroshi Nakanishi
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 63-72
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    This article tries to extract the origin of the vagueness of the field of design in museum display. Here the author picks up the exhibition "Seoul Style 2002" as a case of this analysis. The author tries to extract the origin of the vagueness by means of analyzing the discourse about the misreading by the visitor. The psychoanalytic theory is tried to refer to the discourse analysis. According to the results of the analysis; (1) The field of design is extended all over the object of the display. (2) While the field of the researcher symbolizes the portion of the object of display, the field of design isolates the same portion. (3) Therefore the origin of the vagueness of the field of design is in the psychoanalytic structure of this exhibition.
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  • Miyoung Kim, Haruo Hibino, Shinichi Koyama, Jinho Lee
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 73-80
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    The present study investigates the residents' opinions and concerns about landscape colors, which should contribute to the progress for making good and comfortable landscape in Busan a South Korean City. The survey concerning the residents' additute about the landscape colors was performed, obtaining valid responses from 373 of 750 Busan residents. The results showed that the residents recognized the importance of landscape colors. The results also showed that most residents were affirmative about necessity for management principles regarding the landscape. In addition, the majority of the residents expected the city to manages landscape colors with basic aims and positive maintenances. Thus, in the case of Busan city, it will be important to promote policy regarding landscape color; for example, setting up systematic law, through the prosess in which the residents can participate.
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  • Tsai-Yun Lo, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Jing Yang, Akira Ueda
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 81-90
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    This research is based on the interview with craftsmen of traditional red-painted wooden bed in central Taiwan. Furthermore, this research utilizes historical documentation along with craftsmen's interview to add to the historical data of traditional furniture. The completed research is as follows. (1) The idiom of red-painted wooden bed was influenced by the region and function. (2) The materials used vary depending on era. This is particularly true of the Taiwan Cypress, a material closely intertwined with the making of traditional red-painted wooden beds. (3) The craftsmen's process of production is corelated directly to the respective craftsmen's business aims and practices. (4) The respective specifications of the redpainted wooden bed are unique. This is due to diversity of calculating and measuring of the craftsmen. (5) Based on the interview, insights and further knowledge on the business, techniques and technology of the traditional crafts can be ascertained.
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  • Pei-Jung CHENG, Jen YEN
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 91-98
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    In design studies, many researchers argue that the designers need to perceive a great deal of visual stimuli to generate ideas in the ideation process, but how the behaviour of searching for or retrieving relevant precedents influence designers' ideation procedure seems a key issue to be explored. Therefore, this study chiefly examined the role of Searching-retrieving (S-R) behaviour throughout the ideation process through the methods of in-situ observation with six practicing graphic designers, so as to explore how designers search for reference materials to generate ideas. The findings show that first, most designers spend about one-third of their ideation time to search for or retrieve relevant reference materials and the designers tend to have this behaviour from the beginning to the end. Second, the behaviour of creating new sketches has a strong connection with searching and retrieving behaviour in the designers' ideation process, and the interaction between these two behaviours is a necessarily connective activity for designers to form ideas in the designing procedure. Third, the designers' searching and retrieving behaviour in the pre-stage and mid-stage mainly supports the function of ideas conceptualizing.
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  • Mitsunori Kubo, Fumio Terauchi, Hiroyuki Aoki
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 55 Issue 3 Pages 99-102
    Published: September 30, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
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    The aim of this study was to clarify the basic relationship between the physique of subjects who sat in an experimental seat and the effect of cushions installed on the seat. The experimental seat was vibrated perpendicularly so that the subject could experience the same vibrational conditions as he/she would experience when riding in a car on an actual road. The cushions were rectangular parallelepiped in shape, so that the effect of the shape but not the thickness could be neglected in considering the basic relationship. The two male subjects selected for these experiments had different physiques: one had a large physique, while the other was thin. As a result, it was suggested that the cushions would increase the differences in the dynamical characteristics due to vibration between thin and solid-built subjects. The thin subject tended to be more affected by changes in the properties of the backrest than the large person.
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