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A case study for application of design for affordance methodology using affordance feature repositories
Kim, Yong Se; Noh, Ji Hye; Kim, Sun Ran
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Year:
2013
Editor:
Udo Lindemann, Srinivasan V, Yong Se Kim, Sang Won Lee, John Clarkson, Gaetano Cascini
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
Page(s):
011-020
ISBN:
978-1-904670-48-3
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
The characteristics of products and services that induce natural activities of people, namely affordances, play critical roles in making interactions successful and meaningful. Earlier a methodological framework for design for affordances has been devised where repositories of affordance features are used. Affordance features are retrieved from the repository so that the new affordance feature is to be designed through an analogical reasoning. In two classes of Product-Service Systems Design education, this design for affordance method has been introduced in a tutorial setting for designing a hand carrier cart. This paper describes how the method was introduced and shows new target affordance features in their design proposals with source affordance features retrieved from the repository. Target affordance features have been evaluated based on the distances from the sources. Implications obtained from this tutorial effort are discussed to enrich practical application of the design for affordance method.
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