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Kazuhiro Nakamoto, Kenta Ono, Makoto WatanabeArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 1-8
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this study is to show the method of extracting a pattern to which mobile phone users will give their attention. In the design of user interface, some of the earlier structure and design may be reusable. For reuse, there is a question of how to define its unit. First, we examined the unit of a reusable component in the designing process. We defined this as a pattern. In the next step, we extract patterns by literature-based research. And then extract 41 patterns through confirming on the mobile phone. And we have classified them by some predetermined view point into the seven categories. Then, out of these categories, we investigate what contents will be accepted by users. In that case, we organized the statement by using the Rep Grid evaluation method. As a result, "menu structure", "action and command" and "user guidance" are found to be particularly focused by users.View full abstractDownload PDF (1115K) -
Kenji Miyashita, Mari Abe, Yuji WatanabeArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 9-16
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSUltrasonic vibration is used for the domestic softwoods which are asked for promotion of utilization, and the surface is hardened, and it ornaments embossing or carbonizing, and use development is performed. It is the purpose to clarify validity at every processing condition, and to build the fundamental data for processing. When Ultrasonic vibration was performed to the softwood lumber put on the metal plate, the surface had hardened. In especially, processing using a copper plate is effective and the hardness of these processing material is equivalent to hardwood such as about 0.5 specific gravity. Moreover, if a piercing metallic board was used, the embossing finish was able to be given. However, it did not come to give the test piece a uniform surface carbonization layer. If the surface treatment method by Ultrasonic vibration is establish able, reduction of energy or machining time is expectable from the existing disposal methods, such as compression.View full abstractDownload PDF (2345K) -
Dae Woong Son, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Akira UedaArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 17-26
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper investigates, through his publications and articles in 1950's, the trace of Shinji Koike, a pioneer of industrial design in Japan. Koike's activities during this period can be summarized as follows: (1) Contributed to the establishment of the Japan Industrial Designers Association (JIDA), believing the main role of industrial designers is humanization of industry, (2) Acted as a key person for the establishment of Japanese Society for The Science Of Design (JSSD), responding to the educational and research needs for design, (3) Advocated identifying Japanese design characteristics in which Japanese history, climate and living have rooted, despite the fact that he acted as a leader of a fact-finding 45-day-mission and very knowledgeable about the state of affairs in American design, and (4) Conceptualized cross fertilization for design science and rearranged the design education systems, believing that integration of diversified scientific knowledge would put design for human ecology into practice.View full abstractDownload PDF (2087K) -
Shoki KAWANISHI, Yoshiki UJIIE, Yoshiyuki MATSUOKAArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 27-36
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn Kansei engineering, numerous studies have quantitatively represented the shape feature. They mainly focused on an object under a particular cognitive condition for the quantitative representation. However, human impression is influenced by diverse cognitive conditions. To quantify shape features, the relationship between an object and cognitive conditions is considered. First, the issue of conventional Kansei engineering from the viewpoint of the Multispace Design Model is summarized, and it is suggested that studies of state elements have been little investigated in conventional Kansei engineering. Second, a general model of Kansei with regard to the influence of cognitive conditions is proposed. Finally, experiments for complexity and beauty in the presence of a shadow or its position as a cognitive condition are conducted. Beauty is a variant of the presence of a shadow or its position. In the shape features without influence of the cognitive condition, complexity is represented by the curvature entropy as attribute elements, and beauty is represented by the degree of the golden ratio as attribute elements. In the shape feature with inflence of the cognitive condition, beuaty is represented by the distance between the center of gravity and the shadow as state elements.View full abstractDownload PDF (1524K) -
Tyan Yu Wu, Wen-chih ChangArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 37-44
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn the development of an emotional kitchen appliance, bionic features, the feature mimicking from the nature, are often used as a catalyst to enhance pleasurable value of a product in current consumer markets. The aim of this paper is to investigate consumer's perceptions of pleasure evoked by kitchen appliances with different abstractive levels of bionic features. A literature review and an experiment were conducted to examine the effect of consumer's perception of pleasure. For the experiment, two main variables are manipulated: life-like features and line elements. The findings demonstrated that participants have a greater pleasurable response towards kitchen appliances with least abstractive features than those with more, because the product form composed with more details features can describe semantic stronger than those without. Moreover, it was found that product forms that mimic human features, particularly using eyes and mouth as part of a product's feature, may have a greater effect on consumers' feelings of pleasure than those without. The result also found that female participants were more willing to give higher scores to products that were enhanced with bionic features than male participants were, specifically in terms of personal gratification factor.View full abstractDownload PDF (1104K) -
Andrew COOKSON, Shinnichi ISHIMURAArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 45-54
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper examines the early design development of the rattan seat of English chairs and armchairs 1660-1700. The objective of this research is to provide additional data for scholars concerned with the dating and provenance of late 17^<th> century furniture, and to suggest a different approach to supplement conventional methods that rely largely on stylistic motifs that chronologically coincide with contemporary documentary evidence. This will be achieved through a structural survey of the chair seat frames of early English rattan-seated chairs and armchairs from their inception in England around 1660 to 1700. Two main points will be presented. 1) The early introduction of rattan into European chairs can be seen as belonging to a wider process of importation into Europe of other furniture forms and structures that are associated with Ming Dynasty China. 2) The early development of English rattan seats displays a degree of standardisation that could prove useful in further studies of individual categories of rattan seated chairs made at that time.View full abstractDownload PDF (2776K) -
Koji Shibazaki, Yasuyo Takayanagi, Hiroyuki NakashimaArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 55-64
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSTo build a concept of universal design for textbooks, research with the following methods was conducted on the best way to design textbooks so that they can be used freely by all students, regardless of disability or individual traits. About survey and design of large-print textbooks, large print textbooks, which are barrier-free textbooks for students with disabilities such as low vision, are a focus in special needs education and legislative preparation. A survey related to large print textbooks, textbook design and production support was conducted.About Design concept for digital textbooks, contents and the design and hardware configuration of digital textbooks that can be used by all students were studied from the viewpoint of universal design as next-generation textbooks. Design concepts are summarized.View full abstractDownload PDF (2733K) -
Akira UEDA, Satoru OOGAArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 65-74
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn this paper, the goal will be to explore the Tokoname Region of Aichi Prefecture as one of the representative ceramic producing regions in Japan, in particular, examining its special characteristics and grappling with how the cultural concept of mottainai might appear as part of the identity of the region in question. This research is based on documentary literature, a field survey. As a result of Investigation, the author can summarize below the special cultural characteristics of mottainai as seen in the ceramic-producing region of the Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture. 1) The lifestyle principle of mottainai in the Tokoname Region is shared by residents through common modes of behavior and lifestyle, and it has transmitted and encouraged the thorough and optimal use of scrap and discarded pottery. 2) The special characteristics of symbiosis with the environment in the Tokoname Region are passed on as an expression of compassion toward people who live in harmony with their environment, people who evaluate the special characteristics of materials at hand and focus their knowledge subjectively. 3) Today, there are indications of actions designed to build regional identity based on an inheritance of a cultural lifestyle of traditional symbiosis with the environment while local people use tangible and intangible historical assets in a variety of ways.View full abstractDownload PDF (2471K) -
Ryuji AraiArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 75-84
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSLong life furniture pieces, produced at Tendo Mokko, one of Japanese leading wooden furniture manufactures in the postwar period, were mainly sofas, living tables, dining tables, and large meeting tables. Most of them were released in the late 70's and the early 80's, but the most long-lived pieces were designed between the late 50's and the early 70's, which is known as the period of Mid-century Modern Style. On the contrary, Post-modern furniture at Tendo Mokko was relatively short-lived. Most of Tendo Mokko's G-Mark awarded furniture in 60's and 1970 was also long-lived. Behind the Tendo Mokko's long life furniture, there were several issues, one of which was incentive for the designers, and others were minor changes, product variations, reproductions, and made to order system, due to some technological, economical, and sales promotional reasons.View full abstractDownload PDF (3184K) -
Shinsuke Ishibashi, Haruka Sogabe, Yoshitsugu MoritaArticle type: Article
2010 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 85-92
Published: May 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe aim of this research is construction of the quality chart evaluation and diagnostic system. The quality chart is an evaluation diagnostic system to make the gap of the design evaluation between different user groups such as the designer, providers, and end users visible, and to extract potential needs. In this article, it aims at the establishment of the space evaluation system intended for a public space such as the street space, the station, plazas, and museums. First of all, the evaluation sentence that was the value element of the space evaluation was extracted by the comment of the commendation system of architecture, civil engineering, and landscape, the magazine for general and the user questionnaire, and evaluation index was constructed based on it. Next, the evaluation experiment intended for two spaces was executed, and evaluation index and the evaluation method were verified. As the result, it was clarified to be able to extract the problem and the improvement of each facilities, and for a better space-making to be thought as one of the effective methods.View full abstractDownload PDF (1905K)
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