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Volume 56, Issue 5
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Georgi V. GEORGIEV, Yukari NAGAI, Toshiharu TAURAArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 1-10
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper proposes the viewpoint of design as a process of 'structuring of meanings'. This is a framework which is directly related to the synthesis of concepts and to creativity during the early stages of design. In the presented approach three factors-Sum of Meanings, Relatedness by Path and Standard Deviation of Relatedness by Path-assessing meanings are established in connection with results of design. Furthermore, those assumptions are tested in a case study, resulting in a model of the influence of the proposed factors assessing meanings on the evaluation of design. The validity of this model supports the proposed framework. This understanding of the structuring process of meanings and the utilization of the proposed descriptive factors are important considerations towards further support of conceptual design.View full abstractDownload PDF (1459K) -
Hirokazu HiharaArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 11-18
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study focuses on the 'montage' technique of juxtaposing different elements to affect the emotions, known in Japan as nibutsu shogeki and particularly important in areas such as haiku and film editing. We postulate that this technique embodies a universal rule for affecting human emotions, and offer a rigorous definition of montage. Since colour and pitch are the primary variables within the visual and aural spheres respectively, we used hue and pitch generation algorithms in explaining these pleasing resonances (harmonics) of the transcendental object. This led us to regard the fundamental nature of harmonics as related to action and reaction in systems characterized by cyclical transitions or periodicity. The model testing divides a human mind roughly into three functions, and sets the montage model corresponding to respectively. It was done by the method whether seen of the circulation shift there. And the result in which the circulation shift was able to be generated was obtained.View full abstractDownload PDF (1632K) -
Yoshie Kiritani, Manami Orita, Yoichi TamagakiArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 19-26
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe proposed a method to evaluate the document layout using nonsense syllables. In experiment 1, we measured impression of "readability" of nonsense syllables, systematically varying amount of letters and layout. In experiment 2, the same layouts filled by ordinary text were evaluated. Results showed that the evaluation of layout before reading matched that after reading. In experiment 3 layouts filled by figures were evaluated. Impressions of three types of layout were also compared. As a result, highly evaluated layout with text got better impression than in other layouts, but it seemed crowding. Moreover, the impression of layouts not-highly evaluated did not depend on the stimuli which filled the space, if the stimuli were letters; the layout using figures were overestimated. Thus, if you do not complete the text but insert nonsense syllables, you can consistently expect the impression of layout.View full abstractDownload PDF (1289K) -
Kazutoshi Masunari, Shinnichi IshimuraArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 27-36
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper aims to clarify the design development process of Kagu-cho TV in Japan. Following five findings are led through the literature research and interviews on "Saga". 1) The design of "Saga" was influenced by North European design and American television forms. However, the forms had to be adjusted to match Japanese lifestyle. 2) When television system was introduced to Japan, the design team of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. was ready to utilize design information from overseas to develop Japanese original television design. 3) The design of "Saga" is influenced by the stereo system "Utage", and the "Utage" is influenced by stereo system "Asuka". 4) "Asuka" was not intended to represent Japanese style at first. Commercial advertisements promoted "Asuka" in association with "azekuradukuri", traditional Japanese wooden structure. 5) Before Matsushita, Sanyo Electric firstly applied patents for the three design features that characterize "Saga".View full abstractDownload PDF (2481K) -
Yan Li, Kiyoshi MiyazakiArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 37-46
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper investigates various aspects of handmade ceramic workshop culture which have supported JingDeZhen's ceramic industry for thousands of years. The conclusions based on field surveys and literature analyses are as follows: Each workshop in JingDeZhen is set with a different function and all the workshops combined create a huge and well organized porcelain production system. The development of technology and manufacturing facilities are promoted through the division of labor. Porcelain craftsmen have their own guild, but nearly every citizen in JingDeZhen is somehow involved in the ceramic industry, which makes it a unique ceramic city. Traditional handmade workshop culture is the soul of JingDeZhen which has been home to the world's largest ceramic industry and porcelain trade for about 600 years.View full abstractDownload PDF (2010K) -
A Young Jung, Young Keun Oh, Fumio Terauchi, Hiroyuki AokiArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 47-54
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study is to reconfirm the importance of elder welfare facility demanded by dramatic change in the aged society and to find more systematical way of studying by analyzing characteristic and trend of relating studies. Targeted subject is researches on elder welfare facility published of Korea. Research method is result from cluster analysis using contents analysis and Quantification Theory. As a result: (1) The study of construction space observes advanced cases in a macroscopic perspective in order to understand and examine hardware. (2) The study of management space provides hardware materials related to planning for the structure of spatial composition and movement line analysis. (3) The study of interior compositional element sets up colors as an analytical element and proposes planning guidelines. (4) The study of residential space classifies the characteristics of residence and the nature of the aged and uses a quantitative approach.View full abstractDownload PDF (1622K) -
Hui-Jiun HU, Jen YENArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 55-64
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAs the Internet has already been integrated into human life in 21st century, how to design an easy-to-use Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has become an important issue. The designer will follow the conceptualization in one's own mind to design system image. What is the mental model of designer toward website construction? We use the Interactive Qualitative Analysis (IQA) approach to conduct a qualitative data-gathering, analysis and examination made by expert participants. The findings show that first, design models among web design team members are in high accord and BD, EC, TP, SA, WP, VD, PM and OM are key influence factors on website construction to be considered. Second, the web design team are analysis-orientated and self actualization-orientated in their mindmap. Third, VD is influenced by WP, TS and PM on website construction.View full abstractDownload PDF (1290K) -
Dongxiao CHU, Takatoshi Tauchi, Fumio TERAUCHI, Mitsunori KUBO, Hiroyu ...Article type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 65-72
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSConsidering the gradually increasing pressures to construct a more sustainable society, it is required to reconsider the current product design and manufacture. Therefore, development of a new design paradigm is needed, changing from mass production and mass consumption to the service-oriented post mass production, which pursues the differences in product quality and service-based product value creation considering product lifecycle. Based on the analysis of current situations of service-oriented research, this paper pointed out three existing problems in service engineering, such as lack of: (1) concrete analytical means for service system elements, (2) development means for new service concept, and (3) development of application tools for service design practice. In addition, product sustain ability is also discussed. It indicates that currently product added value (particularly kansei value) creation could be an effective way to promote product sustainability from eco-mind till to realize the improvement and optimization of service and product system. In this way, developing new methodology for product kansei value creation is urgent.View full abstractDownload PDF (1302K) -
Ryuji Katamoto, Kanta Aoki, Nobuhiko Kishi, Kaoru FujiieArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 73-78
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe studied about the device which assisted the training. It was more effective than the device which assisted the present standing therapy. Standing provides countless health and psychological benefits. Standing therapy for person with spinal cord injuries has been demonstrated to prevent, reverse, or improve many of the adverse effects of prolonged immobilization. We made a working model that supported passive exercise of the lower limb in addition to standing for person of leg paralysis. We report the possibility of passive exercise of the lower limb based on working model tests.View full abstractDownload PDF (1794K) -
Jihyang Kim, Yoshie Kiritani, Yoichi Tamagaki, Michio MiyazakiArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 79-86
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn this study, we defined web affordance as that which digital information affords user on web. And then, affordances support consumer act as clue of consumer act. The purpose of this study is to grasp the existence of web affordance in information search in internet shopping. And so shopping experiment was conducted on the web site and interpreted that with protocol analysis. As a result, it was found that there were ten elements. Three elements--operation method, site composition and webpage evaluation--were affordance of usability. Seven elements--presentation of products information, attribute of products, interest to products, participation of products, additional condition of products, expectations for information and review of others--were affordance of information search.View full abstractDownload PDF (1123K) -
Kumiko SadanobuArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 87-96
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn this research, the design and work using Kamiko Washi are described. Kamiko is the clothes made from Washi-Japanese paper. In Japan, many people were wearing Kamiko from the 17th century to the 19th century. On the other hand, Kamiko as fashion arrival was also made. First, Kamiko Washi was made and then the material experiment was conducted. This test result proved Kamiko Washi to be a very hard and light. Furthermore, clothes construction was examined and the work was created. The blouse, the skirt, the dress, and the jacket were made from Kamiko Washi cut in the quadrangle. Those clothes were seen a unique silhouette.View full abstractDownload PDF (4905K) -
Naoto SUZUKI, Kiminobu SATO, Fumio TERAUCHI, Satoshi HACHIMA, Sinichi ...Article type: Article
2010 Volume 56 Issue 5 Pages 97-106
Published: January 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 29, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS"Hometown designer", as a profession, let alone as a terminology, has yet to folly bloom and become recognized in Japan. The academic program offered by Chiba University in Isumi City, Chiba Prefecture, intends to boost this recognition and its stature. The program offers an opportunity for students to work closely with residents and to develop their leadership skills, as well as improve their design and implementation capacities. Rhetorically connoting a medical prescription written by a home doctor to treat an illness, the academic program on "designing a living" reflects a careful diagnosis of the drastic changes to the cultural, social, environmental, and economic conditions particular to a region or town and the solutions thereof. With this acting as a rubric or new perception of a hometown designer's role, this paper analyzes the basic approaches that a hometown designer should apply and the key factors that assure sustainable regional promotion. Specifically, these refer to the academic program's features on identifying indigenous resources (treasures), identifying and screening nonproblem-solving-based ideas, and formulating visions. The concept of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) and the Flowering of the Total Person (Jinshin-no-hana) constitute the basic guiding principles of the work of a hometown designer.View full abstractDownload PDF (2557K)
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