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Volume 55, Issue 6
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Meng-Cong Zheng, Tadao Shimizu, Kiminobu SatoArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 1-10
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this study is to understand how information signs correspond to users' various wayfinding behavior and how the signs serve their needs such as safety, pleasure, and smooth passage when walking between above-ground train stations. In order to find out how information signs work in diverse situations, interchange routes were set up for the subjects in two wayfinding experiments: one long-distance and the other short-distance. The results of the experiments showed a variety of behavior, even though the subjects had no time constraints. On the long-distance routes, the subjects requested maps or signs showing the particulars along the routes. It is evident that the subjects were generally in a lighthearted mood wandering about and really caring about the effectiveness of self-orientation. On the other hand, directional signs were requested for the short-distance route. Unfortunately, few signs were provided between the train stations. The subjects had to keep making decisions along the routes, especially when they were at intersections, where the information signs should be enhanced by providing a great number of signs. For these reasons, user needs suggested by the subjects' wayfinding behavior should be considered when planning information signs.View full abstractDownload PDF (1674K) -
SeongHwan Park, Mitsuo Kamaike, Toru NagaoArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 11-20
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis research aims to clarify the compound impression structure and matching compound picture elements in passenger car design development. First, five steps of impression evaluations by 14 adjectives each were performed about a user (eight sheets), an environment (eight sheets), and the impression received from the picture of a car (five sheets). Furthermore, in order to investigate the relationship between the potential variables of a user, an environment and a car, covariance structural analysis was performed, using the three main ingredients obtained from factor analysis as an observation variable. Consequently, an environmental factor affects the impression of a car with a user has presumed quantitatively. It was grasped that the way of an environmental factor is especially influenced strongly according to the impression of a car. And it evaluated about the matching nature (conformity) of a user, environment, and the compound picture impression of a car. Reasoning by rough set was performed, and a good combination of the matching nature to each vehicle was extracted.View full abstractDownload PDF (1969K) -
SeongHwan Park, Mitsuo Kamaike, Toru NagaoArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 21-28
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe front mask of a passenger car composition element was quantified and it was analyzed how the front mask composition element would have affected the expression evaluation using quantification (I), and the feature of an area ratio with a composition element was clarified about the composition element of the front mask divided into each expression group. Consequently, the expression evaluation structure of a front mask has been classified into four expression groups, Happy, Angry, Bored, and Confident, centering on the pleasant and the unpleasant factor, and the awakening level factor. and the feature about the influence of the expression evaluation on each expression groups was clarified. Furthermore, in the verification of the head lamp area ratio with a composition element, it became clear that it is part of the expression group Happy. the front grille area ratio with a composition element, it became clear that it is part of the expression group Bored. the bumper opening area ratio with a composition element, it became clear that it is part of the expression group Happy.View full abstractDownload PDF (1346K) -
Tsai-Yun Lo, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Jing Yang, Akira UedaArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 29-38
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis research concentrates on style analysis of traditional red-painted wooden bed of Taiwan; the main purpose of this paper is to discover factors of style of that period. The analysis is based on 62 existent samples collected in the field survey, to compare historical transformation of redpainted wooden bed in Taiwan. The results are as follows, (1) the bed was a vital symbol of the user's status in the age of Ching dynasty (1880-1912) which was influenced by Han culture, the ornamental work of bed in that period was traditional Chinese style; (2) in Japanese occupation era (1912-1945), new materials and technology were channeled to Taiwan, bed was shifted to crafts arena in this period, the ornamental work was traditional Chinese style coexisting with Western and Japanese mutually; and (3) the traditional red-painted wooden bed became popular after 1945, the ornamental skill and context became related with mass manufacture productions.View full abstractDownload PDF (2990K) -
Meng-Cong Zheng, Tadao Shimizu, Kiminobu SatoArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 39-48
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe have learned from previous studies on long distance and short distance that subjects tend to be either of non-wandering priority or of wandering priority during their travel. So how underground limits affect users' wayfinding behavior between travels will be conducted in this study. Experiments on those with a non-wandering priority wayfinding with time constraint and wandering priority wayfinding without time constraint were then conducted to simulate the real situation of people travelling in an under-ground station. It is found that directional signs are used simply to make the users follow instructions and to direct people to move straight ahead, but the people had to see the sign before they could make a judgment. It only provides the information needed so that they can easily find and follow the path to their destination. Orientation signs force users to memorize the information shown on the map and confirm their memory while moving from one unfamiliar place to another. Under time stress, users require more functions from the information signs than what the system itself can actually provide.View full abstractDownload PDF (2533K) -
Hyun-guk RyuArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 49-58
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis article considered publication of multilingual "Korean-French dictionary" by the propagator of the Paris foreign propagation society and its typography in the end of the 19th century and clarified the following things. "Korean-French dictionary" is Korea's first multilingual dictionary by the new-type printing. The publisher was "Cerf Levy". No.5 type by the Korea etymology characters and that "Ji-Hyok, CHE" lettered the characteristics of the printing type for text. The multilingual composing type obeyed the composing type rule of the Korean language, i.e., pronunciation (European language)/Chinese character/meaning (European language) mainly, and it was managed how to compose of the Class seven Beta equality placement as a standard. An asterisk is written for Korean derived from a Chinese character, and it is distinguished in particular. The above is main new knowledge in this report. In "Korean-French dictionary", I made dear what are the important contents for future development in Korea.View full abstractDownload PDF (4789K) -
Ryuji Sakamaki, Satoshi Someya, Kouji OkamotoArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 59-66
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this research is to investigate how Web-site design affect regard and memorized information quantity. First, we found 3 factors on Web-site impression evaluation by using SD method, which are convenience, readability, entertainment. Second, useing eyetracking system and hearing, we visualized 3 behaviors on Web useage and quantified regard and memorized information quantity. Finally, we showed that convenience is primary importance factor to get information on user's radar screen by using Covariance Structure Analysis. The results sugeested that we should attend to Mental Model and thus convenience, when we design a Web-site.View full abstractDownload PDF (2185K) -
Birch-bark Culture of the Oroqen People in China : Survey on Making and Using of Birch-bark ProductsHaidong Wang, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Akira UedaArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 67-76
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study is aimed to grasp the particularity of traditional birth-bark craftwork created by Chinese Oroqen people. We investigated and analyzed the birth-bark household products in the Oroqen and got 7 cultural particularities as follows. (1) one thing wholly use culture: use birch without waste. (2) nature, human, coexistence of the birch-bark, symbiosis culture: neither waste the birth-bark nor make the birth dead, properly use nature resource. (3) making and using by oneself culture: be created and fully used only in this area. (4) generation-transmit culture: be transmitted from generation to generation. (5) helping each other for commune culture: make birch-bark products help local people to connect with each other among neighborhood and villagers. (6) adhesion to climate, custom and life culture: be formed by itself in the severe climate. (7) resource cycling substance culture: return to the earth after thoroughly use.View full abstractDownload PDF (2303K) -
Midori TakashimaArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 77-84
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSLightness assimilation and contrast are influenced by the manner of viewing and by perceptual dimensions. Technical knowledge affects some perceptual phenomenon. In the present study, I examined whether the effects of technical knowledge on assimilation and contrast are explained by the manner of viewing and perceptual dimensions or not. I found that the experts tended to look at pattern more partially than naive did, and reported contrast more consistently than did naive who had the manner of partial viewing. Moreover, the experts could report multiple dimensions, on the other hand naive attended only to surface color but they could not distinguish the difference between lightness and brightness. These results suggest that the effects of technical knowledge on assimilation and contrast could be explained by not only the manner of viewing but also perceptual dimensions.View full abstractDownload PDF (1578K) -
Ryuji AraiArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 85-94
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSA method of evaluating Japanese furniture design in the postwar period is to look through Good Design Award Finder, which is run buy Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization. Types of Good Design Awarded wooden furniture were mainly chairs, sofas and beds. Major Japanese wooden furniture manufacturers received many G-Marks for their chairs and sofas in the 60's shortly after the foundation of the Award, and most of them were in the Mid-Century Japanese Modern style. Those companies were Akita Mokko, Tendo Mokko, Kosuga, Yamakawa Rattan, Hida-Sangyo, and Futaba-Kogyo. They used both in-house and independent designers. Major Japanese bed manufacturers, such as Nishikawa-Sangyo, Aishin, and FRANCEBED, received many G-Marks for ordinary beds in the 80's. Those bed companies had strong in-house design teams.View full abstractDownload PDF (2604K) -
Hiroshi NakanishiArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 95-102
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis article tries to verify the propriety and the efficiency of describing the death of the object in the design history. Here we pick up "NINETEENTH CENTURY RAILWAY CARRIAGES" by Ellis as a case of this analysis. We tried both analysis based on statistics and analysis based on psychoanalysis. According to the results of the analysis based on statistics, the article by Ellis can considered as a proper history of development despite describing the death of the object. According to the results of the analysis based on psychoanalysis, some descriptions describing the death of the object may bring objectivity to this design history. These results prove the possibility of extending this efficiency of describing the death of the object to the field of design history.View full abstractDownload PDF (1546K) -
Quansheng Guo, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Akira UedaArticle type: Article
2009 Volume 55 Issue 6 Pages 103-112
Published: March 31, 2009
Released on J-STAGE: July 19, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper is to judge the actual status of Tang San Cai craftsmen by means of in-site survey and analysis of forming and changing of Tang San Cai of Nanshishan village in Luoyang region. The following aspects are concluded: (1) The orignin of Tang San Cai craftsmen was that at the end of 19th century, when the railway was built in Luoyang, Gao's villagers restored Tang San Cai unearthed in Mangshan area. (2) The craftsmen of Nanshishan village not only mastered the skill of firing Tang San Cai, but also did the work of copying and identification of unearthed pottery of Han dynasty and the Northern Wei dynasty. (3) The technical succeeding of Tang San Cai craftsmen of Nanshishan village was based on Master and Apprentice system. (4) With the enforcement of industrialization and urbanization, the shared value of young men changes. And therefore, a phenomenon occurs that the successors of traditional craftwork Tang San Cai decreased rapidly.View full abstractDownload PDF (2134K)
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