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- Andersson, Sofie, 1991, et al.
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Accelerate innovation towards sustainable living: Exploring the potential of Living Labs in a recently completed case
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Design Research. - 1569-1551 .- 1748-3050. ; 15:3-4, s. 234-257
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The built environment accounts for over one-third of both global final energy use and CO 2 emissions. This sector is, however, particularly prone to ‘lock-in’ with many strong barriers hindering the market uptake of sustainable innovations. Additionally, various studies have shown that user behaviour may outweigh efficiency improvements achieved through technological innovations in buildings. The emerging area of Living Labs has been proposed as a means to accelerate the development of innovations in the building sector. This paper elaborates on challenges for sustainable living from a wide perspective and explores the potential of Living Labs to address some of these challenges in order to accelerate innovation. The research environment for the study is a newly built Living Lab located in the south-west region of Sweden.
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- Andersson, Sofie, 1991, et al.
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All Doors Lead to the Kitchen – Sustainability and Wellbeing Challenges in a Shared Centrepiece of Living
- 2019
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Ingår i: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 2194-5365 .- 2194-5357. ; 876, s. 111-116
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The kitchen figures a central place in the home where a significant share of a household’s resource consumption takes place. Sharing the kitchen between multiple households has potential to bring positive sustainability effects due to more efficient use of both material resources and energy. The concept of shared kitchens has, however, thus far had a limited diffusion. This paper explores the potential of shared kitchens as a future sustainable living environment by studying user experiences from a Living Lab setting. It builds the base for an overarching larger European collaboration on how future shared kitchens should be designed in order to support everyday practices while optimising the conditions for achieving positive impact on both sustainability and wellbeing. Findings are presented from five focus areas concerning different use contexts: (1) accessing, (2) cooking, (3) living and socialising, (4) storing, and (5) cleaning.
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- Babapour Chafi, Maral, 1983, et al.
(författare)
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A comparison of Diary Method Variations for Enlightening Form Generation in the Design Process
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Design Research Society conference 2012, Bangkok, 1-4 July 2012.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents two studies in which an empirical approach was taken to understand and explain form generation and decisions taken in the design process. In particular, the activities addressing aesthetic aspects when exteriorizing form ideas in the design process have been the focus of the present study. Diary methods were the starting point of this research for investigating the form generation process through collecting self-reflective comments from the participants. The main focus of this paper is to address potentials and limitations of the three variants of diary method used for data collection, namely, unstructured diaries, structured diaries and visual diaries. A set of method evaluation criteria was developed to compare the structure of the diary variants. By qualitative analysis of the results and comparison of the diary variants, strengths and weaknesses of each variant were identified. One of the prominent factors in the diary variants was pegged to be due to the logging delay after the occurrence of the activities.
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- Babapour Chafi, Maral, 1983, et al.
(författare)
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Bridging the Discrepancy between Reflective Practice and Systematic Form Generation Approaches
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, 5 & 6 September 2013, Dublin Institute Of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. ; , s. 778-783
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Systematic form development frameworks help the students and designers to broaden their form repertoire. Nevertheless, when they are encouraged in classroom activities, several aspects must be considered. For example, over-reliance on them limits the students’ ability to reflect on the process and actively look for alternative ways of finding solutions. This paper presents a classroom experiment that encouraged adopting a systematic yet reflective approach for developing product form alternatives. In a Master course (7,5 ECTS) in Advanced Form Design, twelve student teams, first introduced to the theoretical framework, were asked to find their own approaches for applying the theory on a product form design assignment.This paper reports on the general structure of students’ different interpretations for the form generation process, and discusses its contribution to the overall learning experience. An overall description of the assignment as well as a conclusive summary of the produced results is presented here. Further, an exemplifying case will be used to demonstrate the great form variety in the results of the assignments. The outcomes of the course put to proof that there is a need to encourage reflection-on-action when applying systematic form design theory.
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- Babapour Chafi, Maral, 1983, et al.
(författare)
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Media and representations in product design education
- 2014
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Ingår i: A. Eger, A. Kovacevic, & B. E. Parkinson (Eds.), Design Education & Human Technology Relations, Proceedings of The 16th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. ; , s. 42-47
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The creation of product form, involves embodying a potential function and intended use while defining geometrical, ordering principles. This paper aims to elaborate roles of different media and representations in design activities intended to externalise form ideas (e.g. sketching, building physical models, digital modelling, etc.). Understanding and explaining this is central to helping students and practitioners engage with, reflect on, and value the roles of media for externalising ideas.To understand and explain the role of media in design activities, design diaries were analysed. These were documented as part of a course in Advanced Form Design (7,5 ECTS - master level) in spring terms 2011-2013 with a total of 38 participants. For course completion, the students were expected work in groups on a project seeking creative form ideas and solutions for a dinnerware product with a high level of novelty, aesthetic detail, and functionality. Design diaries were used as an educational method for initiating and documenting self-reflections on a weekly basis. The students were to reflect on their process and the underlying motivations behind their activities.Design progress can be seen, as interplay of moving-seeing not only within one medium of externalizing, but also across different media. In the design diaries the students engaged in a dialectic process when translating their ideas from one medium to another. The results from diary analysis show how reframing prior ideas facilitates interpretation, discovery and correction of the assumptions that are not revealed in previous representations, and thereby, learning from previous mistakes. Creating educational situations to encourage the students iterate more often using different media, may result in reaching more well-reasoned solutions.Further, the paper discusses issues regarding skill in manipulation of material and media. Eloquence in using media facilitates idea generation without necessarily being bounded to and distracted by technical problems. This accentuates a need to help design students become more skilled in using different media, thereby enabling a fluent exploration of novel solutions.The paper provides a platform for students and, educators to engage with, reflect on and discuss how different media may support design, but in some cases also constrain creativity and ability to work with three-dimensional form.
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- Babapour Chafi, Maral, 1983, et al.
(författare)
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The Influence of Self-reflective Diaries on Students' Design Processes
- 2012
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Ingår i: DesignEd Asia Conference 2012.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Earlier phases of design projects are always followed by the activities of analysis, synthesis and evaluation that are the outstanding commonalities shared between design process models. Designers continuously organise and reduce large amounts of generated data in order to find cohesion and clarity and gain a holistic understanding of the design space. The present research considers a specific way to facilitate the design processes of students. It elaborates on using diaries as an educational method for documenting self-reflections, which in turn aid students’ product form creation processes. Placing emphasis on reflection allows design students to (i) assess their activities and self-criticise the progress and content of their design projects, (ii) better plan and organize their project activities, and (iii) better communicate with other stakeholders in the product development process, by providing an opportunity to articulate what they have done.
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- Babapour Chafi, Maral, 1983, et al.
(författare)
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Visualizing the design process–an educational approach for the synthesis of design diaries
- 2013
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Ingår i: 10th European Academy of Design Conference - Crafting the Future.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There have been a lot of efforts in the research community for describing the design process and visualizing it in general roadmaps. But when it comes to designers, they have difficulties in explaining how they work and what they do. Since designers draw upon their personal experiences, through time they develop a more or less individual process. The ability to explain and reflect on the design process will not only facilitate self-evaluation for the designers, but also would assist them in communicating with other stakeholders in the product development process. While there are various educational approaches for teaching different design skills, design literature has not provided many examples of approaches for familiarizing the designstudents with reflecting on, and communicating their individual processes. This article reports on such an approach, which aimed to provide the design students with the ability to communicate their design process through documenting self-reflective comments in form generation diaries and synthesizing their self-reflections by visualizing their process.
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- Cobaleda Cordero, Antonio, 1985, et al.
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Smart and Sustainable Offices (SSO). Showcasing a holistic approach to realise the next generation offices
- 2017
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Ingår i: Informes de la Construccion. - : Editorial CSIC. - 0020-0883 .- 1988-3234. ; 69:548, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Smart Sustainable Offices project (SSO) is a product of years of research with large sets of data collected from more than 30 office buildings in Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain. Based on scientific evidence, the concept of SSO, initially conceived as a research plan to address the interdependencies between office users and their working environment in a European context, is now used as a qualitative and quantitative mixed method approach for office diagnosis and ideation. At the current stage, the SSO methodology aims to implement a new paradigm of user-oriented, lower carbon footprint and resilient office design solutions. The main strategy is articulated around the “office DNA” of every organisation, decoded as a compound of work patterns, operational and individual needs, and their potential to define design criteria. The practical application of SSO and its tentative findings exemplified through three pilot test office-demonstrators are described in this paper.
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Concepts for Reality. Industrial Design Engineering, 2005.
- 2005
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present time is characterised by rapid change, unpredictable and with unknown results. In such circumstances it appears only natural that design in its interdisciplinary role should develop just as fast, and ideally be foresighted rather than the reverse. It calls for great intellectual skill to be able to judge and take action in a world in constant transition. All attempts at drawing borders in order to limit and define design responsibilities seem unwise today. The aim of design has always been change. It is pointless to distinguish between products, processes, systems, interfaces and forms of communication when these ingredients are ultimately all interwoven in each project in a manner new and unique. What is of essential importance is what the work leads to, and there quality must be the leading lodestar.
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| 11. |
- Dokter, Giliam, 1990, et al.
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Cards for Circularity (CFC): Reflections on the use of a card-based circular design tool in design education
- 2022
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Ingår i: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. - : IOP Publishing. - 1755-1307 .- 1755-1315. ; 1078:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transition to a Circular Economy (CE) requires designers to, more than ever, concurrently develop a circular design, supply chain and business model, and anticipate how products and buildings function over time. To address these challenges, recent studies identified specific knowledge and competencies for designers. However, it remains unknown to what extent future designers (students) are prepared to address the CE in design practice. Therefore, this study investigates how architecture students currently interpret the CE concept and whether that aligns with how they apply the concept in a design assignment. For two years, a workshop was organized with a total of 320 architecture students. The students utilized a card-based circular design tool to conceptualise circular solutions for cases varying in scale and context. According to the students, the main challenge of design for a CE relates to holistic perspectives and systems thinking. The students associate the CE strongly with the reuse of existing (waste) materials, yet results of the design assignment show holistic and diverse approaches of incorporating CE principles. The study identified slight discrepancies between experienced challenges and reported necessary knowledge of designing for a CE, which could relate to the changing role of architects in a CE.
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- Dokter, Giliam, 1990, et al.
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Cards for circularity: Towards circular design in practice
- 2020
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Ingår i: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. - : IOP Publishing. - 1755-1307 .- 1755-1315. ; 588:1.11-1.14
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transition towards a Circular Economy (CE) in the built environment is crucial to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Theoretical frameworks and methods for circular design have been developed. Yet, there is a lack of knowledge on circular design in practice and how circular design thinking can be supported. This study aims to provide insights on circular design in practice and how this can be supported through circular design methods. First, we reviewed existing circular design methods and developed a card-based circular design tool. Next, an interactive survey and design workshop using the tool was carried out with 12 design experts to gather knowledge on circular design in practice. Finally, we derive key learnings that can support the development of circular design methods and advancement of CE in practice. Overall, circular design remains highly conceptual and is challenging due to the interconnectedness of parameters and temporal aspects such as product life cycle. Designers need ways of educating and convincing stakeholders on the value and feasibility of circular design.Advancing the CE in practice requires circular design methods that help to contextualize the design process and reduce complexity, and examples are needed of how CE can be implemented in practice.
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- Dokter, Giliam, 1990, et al.
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Co-creation – a facilitator for circular economy implementation? A case study in the kitchen industry
- 2019
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Ingår i: PLATE Product Lifetimes And The Environment 2019 – Conference Proceedings. - 9783798331259
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the concept of Circular Economy (CE) has gained significant attention in business and academia, knowledge and strategies on how to bring circularity into practice still remains limited. Most research efforts are theoretical and focus on waste handling, resource use and environmental impact. Only few studies focus on the practical implementation of CE. There is a lack of research on practical cases, where both the design process and involved stakeholders are considered. This paper reports on a case study carried out in collaboration with a Scandinavian kitchen manufacturer, to increase the understanding on how co-creation strategies can contribute to the implementation of circular economy in the kitchen industry. Based on three workshops followed by five interviews with workshop participants, insights have been gained regarding barriers and opportunities for implementation of circular economy in small manufacturing firms. Results indicate that the co-creation workshops have led to an increased understanding of CE and change of attitude towards CE among the participants.
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| 14. |
- Dokter, Giliam, 1990, et al.
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How circular is current design practice? Investigating perspectives across industrial design and architecture in the transition towards a circular economy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainable Production and Consumption. - : Elsevier BV. - 2352-5509. ; 26, s. 692-708
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transition to a circular economy (CE) produces a range of new challenges for designers and requires specific knowledge, strategies, and methods. To date, most studies regarding design for a CE have been theoretical and conceptual, hence, limited research has been conducted on the practical implications of designing for a CE. Therefore, the aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of how design practitioners interpret and implement the CE concept in practice. To capture the complexity of real-world cases, semi-structured interviews were carried out with design practitioners (N = 12) within the disciplines of architecture and industrial design who have actively worked with circularity in a design agency setting. The results show that the practitioners have diverse perspectives on designing for a CE, relating to (1) the circular design process, (2) the effects of the CE on design agencies, (3) the changing role of the designer, and (4) the external factors affecting circular design in practice. Some differences were identified between the architects and industrial designers, with the industrial designers more strongly focused on circular business models and the architects on the reuse of materials on a building level. In addition, circular strategies and associated (similar) terminologies were understood and applied in fundamentally different ways. As the CE blurs boundaries of scale and disciplines, there is a need for universal design frameworks and language. The CE concept is expanding the scope of the design process and driving the integration of new knowledge fields and skills in the design process. The successful implementation of the CE in practice is based on extensive collaboration with stakeholders and experts throughout all stages of the design process. Design agencies have addressed the CE by establishing dedicated CE research and design teams, facilitating knowledge exchange, developing their own circular strategies and methods, and striving for long-term client relationships that foster the engagement of designers with the lifecycles of designed artefacts rather than perceiving design projects as temporary endeavors. Ultimately, a holistic and integral approach towards design in a CE is needed to ensure that the underlying CE goals of contributing to sustainable development and establishing a systemic shift are ongoingly considered.
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- Dokter, Giliam, 1990, et al.
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The role of prototyping and co-creation in circular economy-oriented innovation: A longitudinal case study in the kitchen industry
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sustainable Production and Consumption. - 2352-5509. ; 39, s. 230-243
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To bridge the gap between the conceptualisation and implementation of circular value propositions, recent research efforts have focused on linking design-driven approaches with circular-oriented innovation. Such approaches can facilitate iterative processes that emphasise co-creation, prototyping, and real-life experimentation, ultimately promoting practical implementation. Still, there is a lack of understanding how companies go through the process of circular-oriented innovation, and how prototyping and co-creation support this process. This article presents a longitudinal case study of a four-year research project in which two academic teams, from Sweden and the Netherlands, collaborated with industrial partners to explore the potential of circular economy principles within the kitchen industry and develop a market-ready circular kitchen. The results indicate that prototyping plays a supportive role in the circular-oriented innovation process by making the concept of a circular economy tangible for stakeholders, facilitating knowledge exchange, and supporting overall developments towards collaborative circular supply chains. However, prototyping too early in the process linked to project deliverables carries a risk for ‘prototype fixation’, fragmented solutions, and missed opportunities for shared value creation. Co-creation was found particularly impactful during the early stages of circular-oriented innovation where it helped guide the project, enabled shared learning, built confidence and commitment amongst stakeholders, and supported the development of solutions tailored to demands of parties involved. The case study provides deeper insights on the role of prototyping and co-creation through diverse stages of the circular-oriented innovation process and extracts several lessons that might aid researchers and practitioners to navigate future circular-oriented innovation endeavours.
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- Hagejärd, Sofie, 1991, et al.
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Designing for Circularity—Addressing Product Design, Consumption Practices and Resource Flows in Domestic Kitchens
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Both the daily use and renewal of kitchens significantly contribute to the overall environmental impact of domestic buildings. To identify design implications related to circular consumption in domestic kitchens, 20 household interviews and one focus group session were performed, investigating how kitchens are used and transformed to meet households’ wants and needs. This study determined that daily kitchen resource use is greatly affected by kitchen design and that typical kitchen design generally does not promote sustainable resource use. Key factors that support minimization of resource use in the kitchen are the availability and planning of storage and workspaces. Furthermore, kitchens should be equipped with functions that enable households to use energy and water efficiently. Regarding kitchen renewal, various motivations that may initiate kitchen renovations can be summarised as follows: (1) Functional demands and changing needs, (2) aesthetic demands and changing trends, (3) obsolescence due to wear, and (4) linkage to another home renovation. This article concludes that a combination of design strategies is needed to reach a higher level of kitchen circularity. Moreover, these design strategies must be accompanied by circular business models and efforts to increase awareness of the environmental impact related to activities in and involving the kitchen.
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- Hagejärd, Sofie, 1991, et al.
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“It's never telling me that I'm good!” Household experiences of testing a smart home energy management system with a personal threshold on energy use in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Energy Research and Social Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 2214-6296. ; 98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although smart technologies are widely promoted as enabling flexibility in households' energy demand, they often fail to achieve substantial impact. How smart technologies are actually used and to what extent they enable changes of energy-reliant practices in everyday life therefore needs to be better understood. This paper evaluates a smart home energy management system, Ero 2.0, which was tested by households in a multi-residential building in Sweden. To our knowledge, apart from its forerunner, Ero 2.0 is the first of its kind to include a personal threshold on energy use varying with the availability of preferred energy sources. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 participants, complemented by pre and post surveys, answered by 39 and 32 participants respectively. Overall, Ero 2.0 contributed to raised awareness regarding electricity and water use. To some extent, it also contributed to changes in practices, mainly through changed or reduced use of certain functions. However, it was less effective in enabling shifting practices in time. Difficulties to change practices were found to depend on: (1) lack of flexibility in everyday life, (2) limitations in size and layout of the dwelling, (3) lack of incentives and perceived impact, (4) lack of guidance and (5) lack of possibilities to control devices through the interface. The second point is an aspect that to date has received little attention in smart energy research. Design opportunities for future smart home energy management systems are discussed while acknowledging that such technologies cannot alone achieve the transition to more sustainable energy systems.
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- Hagejärd, Sofie, 1991, et al.
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My apartment is cold! Household perceptions of indoor climate and demand-side management in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Energy Research and Social Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 2214-6296. ; 73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Space heating represents a major share of a households’ total energy consumption and related CO2 emissions. An approach often suggested to improve both the environmental and economic performance of the energy system is demand-side management. However, there has been little research into how households perceive load shifting in space heating. This paper evaluates the thermal perception among tenants in 33 multi-residential buildings connected to district heating in Sweden. Centrally controlled load shifts were applied in eight of these buildings during a two-week trial in early winter. The participants recorded their thermal sensation and thermal satisfaction in a diary, supplemented by opening and closing surveys. The results indicated that indoor temperatures at home were generally experienced as being low, especially in the morning. Control over heating was regarded as insufficient. No statistically significant difference in thermal sensation and satisfaction between days with and without load shifts was identified. However, after the trial, significantly fewer participants than before were willing to accept greater temperature variations to save energy. The study further highlights four factors that may influence the perception and acceptance of demand-side management in residential space heating: (1) set indoor climate conditions, (2) timing and magnitude of load shifts, (3) individual control and (4) communication.
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- Hagejärd, Sofie, 1991, et al.
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Retrofitting from the Inside/Insight Perspective: Adapting to Users’ Needs with the Kitchen as a Starting Point
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Premature renovation of kitchen furniture and appliances lead to waste and unnecessary climate impact. One important driver to premature kitchen renovations is a lack of understanding of user needs among designers, developers and kitchen producers. This project aims at developing a future circular kitchen based on user insights studies combined with co-creation sessions involving different stakeholders in the supply chain of kitchen production, maintenance, use and recycling. Implication of user insights on liveability of dwellings for the broader sustainable retrofitting agenda is discussed.
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- Haghgoo, Maliheh, et al.
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A cloud-based service-oriented architecture to unlock smart energy services
- 2021
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Ingår i: Energy Informatics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2520-8942. ; 4:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a modern smart energy system with increased penetration of renewable energy resources, the amount of data from various sources is growing significantly. Such systems require complex algorithms and controlling on-demand. These requirements can be addressed with on-demand scalability and a stable system. Nowadays, on-demand scalability is achieved by considering cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. This paper presents a cloud-based platform based on service-oriented architecture to perform analyzes on smart energy system services. It is the result of the European FISMEP (FIWARE for Smart Energy Platform) project to demonstrate an information and communication technology (ICT) architecture for the smart energy sector. The presented architecture is powered by FIWARE, open-source and customizable building blocks for future internet applications and services. Furthermore, the feasibility of the architecture is evaluated using various test cases.
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- Haghgoo, Maliheh, et al.
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Open Smart Energy Eco-System for the Future
- 2020
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Ingår i: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. - : IOP Publishing. - 1755-1307 .- 1755-1315. ; 588:2
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Due to the increasing complexity of the global energy system and the amount of data transmitted by smart devices, there is an urgent need to unlock smart technologies and services with investments on the scalability of computational resources. This objective can be achieved by means of a standardized software platform that can support interoperability and behave as the main vehicle for the rapid implementation of innovative energy services. One possibility to enhance computational power on demand is cloud computing, which forms the Internet of Things (IoT). In this work, a customizable open-source IoT platform setup using the FIWARE framework is deployed, which exploits the advantages for a smart energy domain. The term platform comprehends a set of software tools that allow quick integration of various devices. This study presents the implemented platform and analyses its functionality in di↵erent use cases on the European level.
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How Things fit Needs
- 2007
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Modern product development is characterised by cross-functional collaboration, parallel development processes and computer aided evaluation. While demands on a product’s performance, price and quality have steadily risen, the product’s life-cycle has shortened and international competition hardened. Growing complexity and the need for ever shorter production times call for maximum efficiency in development work. A range of different specialist skills are interwoven to reach system and overall solutions. Both analytical and synthetic design methods are employed to identify present and future demands and to ‘humanise’ the technology needed to solve present and future problems. But design work offers no single linear method of approach. Each development process is a novel and integral interplay. It is the task of the designer to control this interplay while maintaining a view to the overall product.The Industrial Design Engineering programme at the Chalmers University of Technology is an answer to this development – an interdisciplinary engineering training aimed at the planning and development of industrially manufactured products and production systems. The catalogue gives an overview about works carried out in 2006/2007.
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- Jin, Quan, 1983, et al.
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SSO User Insight Toolbox for employees’ health, well-being and productivity
- 2019
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Ingår i: REHVA Journal. - 1307-3729. ; 56:6, s. 58-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Users have significant impacts on building energy consumption and can interact with indoor environments. Identifying user needs, behaviour, and preference is crucial for the design of both new and the renovation of existing buildings. Offices are important since people spend on average one-third of their life at work. It also accounted for a larger share of the energy use and the floor area of non-residential buildings in Europe. Moreover, more ambitious regulations and the increasing popularity of voluntary building certification schemes require the construction of more energy-efficient buildings, but in reality, a ‘performance gap’ is often observed. Therefore, deep insights in user perceptions and experiences can provide the knowledge basis for developing a new generation of office buildings that provide a healthier and more productive indoor environment guided by a user-centric approach. In his article, we will introduce the web-based application of the Questionnaire and Diary Apps and a Virtual Reality (VR) design tool developed to support the interactive co-creation session with users and designers.
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- Jin, Quan, 1983, et al.
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The influence of indoor environmental quality and workspace design on employees’ health and work performance
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) Conference 2020. ; , s. 396-403
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Human health and well-being have gained growing attention in the societal debate as well as in research. It is widely acknowledged that employees’ health and well-being contribute to a decent work environment which can positively contribute to economic benefits for the employers, the social-welfare and health system as well as the building owners. However, the office environment is complex and constitutes of various factors affecting employees’ health and well-being, for example, indoor climate, architectural design, and social work environment. Therefore, this paper will focus on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and workplace design, and their influence on employees’ health and work performance. A multi-disciplinary approach is developed integrating the subjective survey, semi-structured interview, and physical measurement for an in-depth investigation of the physical office environment and employees’ self-reported health and work performance. A large office building with BREEAM certification has been studied at the end of summer in 2019. In total, 160 employees were involved by an online-based survey and individual interview and workshop. The main aspects of IEQ were measured, including the thermal environment, air quality, acoustic and lighting. The correlations between IEQ and workspace design factors and 5-symptom based self-reported health and self-reported work performance concerning self-evaluation and leader’s feedback were studied. Results show that physical office environment shows a large association with self-reported health and self-reported work performance. IEQ factors of air quality and relative humidity are significantly correlated with PSI. Size of individual workspace and aesthetic appearance of the office gain the highest correlation with self-reported health status among the factors of workspace design. Noise and artificial lights are studied to be significantly associated with work performance, and distance between work desks is largely associated with work performance. Considering the needs of employees on the physical office environment, air temperature, air quality and availability to work concentrated still underperform but perceived as highly important by the employees. The study made efforts to study the complex factors existing in the office environment with a multi-disciplinary approach, which can be utilized in other case studies to evaluate office environment and identify the key factors. Thus, the study made it possible to review and compare the influence of physical environment factors affecting employees’ health and well-being. The data collected will contribute to an office database which is under development by the authors.
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- Karjalainen, Toni-Matti, 1974, et al.
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"NOYO - CREATING YOUR EXPERIENCE" - A case study on the creation of affective brand script and visual product identity
- 2006
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Ingår i: Design & Emotion 2006.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Visual recognition and emotional contents of product design are increasingly relevant topics with respect to brand management. Within the brand creation process, various symbolic qualities and emotional aspects can be developed around the functional product to create a strong and affective story, or script, for the brand. When creating such brand script, it is particularly important to ensure that different communication media are consistently utilised. In specific, the semantic contents of product design need to be aligned with the brand's core values, so that the design features and characteristics communicate the true essence of the brand. This case paper explores the key aspects of creating an affective and believable story for a brand and expressing it through design. This is illustrated through a student project that was organised in the Chalmers University of Technology in the Autumn of 2005. The paper aims to show how the processes of market analysis, brand creation, and semantic reference building in design could be structured. The Noyo case highlights the importance of holistic approach towards creating affective brands and products. In addition to an excellent product, technically, cognitively and emotionally, appealing story is needed around it and the brand it represents. The key challenge then concerns the transformation of this essence into the visual and other product attributes and, finally, into an emotional presentation of the concept.
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- Karjalainen, Toni-Matti, 1974, et al.
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Strategic Design through Brand Contextualization.
- 2013
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Ingår i: 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research, August 2013, Tokyo, Japan..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Providing meaningful customer experience is at the core of any successful business activity. Brands can function as vehicles to bundle the ingredients of experience together and give them structure by which consumers are able to understand and interpret products and services. To complement the technical and functional reality and experience, brands create particular narratives around products and services, within the realm of their use experience. This paper aims to contribute to understanding of strategic design and brand contextualization by looking thoroughly into a research-driven student project. The product-service design assignment given to seven teams of four to five post-graduate students was to design a new bike-sharing system, serving the sustainable urban mobility needs of the city of Gothenburg in Sweden. The task was accompanied by a request to create a fictive brand case and specific brand narrative, based on a thorough analysis of pre-selected existing brands. The paper discusses how the teams crafted their brand narratives and how different design and service elements were used to create specific and meaningful brand experiences. In addition to the contribution of the paper to design research and practice, we present a process that might be more widely useful for the education of strategic design and brand management.
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- Karjalainen, Toni-Matti, 1974, et al.
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Visual recognition wrapped: Student explorations of product packages as brand messengers
- 2010
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Ingår i: 12th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: When Design Education and Design Research Meet ., E and PDE 2010; Trondheim; Norway; 2 September 2010 through 3 September 2010. - 9781904670193 ; , s. 168-173
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Design for visual brand recognition is of increasing strategic importance for companies. Specific focus is often on product packages that have strong communicative power. The package is used to inform about the product it covers or supports, to point out specific product qualities and, in specific, to create unique brand experience. In design education, new practical approaches are needed to engage students in exploring the possibilities of visual brand building and creating communicative and distinctive package solutions. In this paper, a student project is described and discussed to illustrate how package design can be approached from a brand communication perspective in the educational context. In addition to the overall description of the project and its phases, we briefly discuss one of the cases more in detail. In this case, a student group analyzed premium chocolate brands and developed a new fictive brand in this category by paying specific attention to the communicative qualities of the product package. We found that such a practical approach towards brands and their diverse aesthetic and symbolic qualities can provide a fruitful learning experience for design students.
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- Nikitas, Alexandros, 1980, et al.
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Designing the metropolitan future of Shanghai: A local interaction platform looking to incorporate urban access design considerations in planning for a fairer, denser and greener mega-city
- 2013
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Ingår i: 10th European Academy of Design Conference "Crafting the Future", April, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban design, that will formulate resourceful ways to promote more sustainable and socially inclusive mobility patterns, is the key to reversing the alarming energy over-consumption, the environmental degradation, and the negative distributional impacts associated with today's cities that tend to relegate anthropocentric design considerations to the status of a non-issue. Urban access is an innovative and truly trans-disciplinary design axiom that aims to incorporate these considerations to mainstream future urban planning. It does this by ensuring that every member of the society has access to those locations and resources one needs to achieve a sustainable standard of living and productivity without limiting other people’s rights of access. Designing built environments for achieving optimum urban access levels for everyone, regardless of possible age or mobility limitations, serves as the thematic framework for the research studies of the Local Interaction Platform (LIP) Shanghai discussed in this paper. This is a Sino-Swedish research scheme goaled towards increasing capacities, in order to transform current, unsustainable urban development pathways to more sustainable urban futures for the metropolitan environment of Shanghai. This paper presents a research synopsis of the various and diverse urban access driven studies that are on the focus of LIP Shanghai regarding the city’s:existent road network infrastructure limitations, bus systems accessibility design, potential to have a public bicycle programme in place and existing car travel demand management mechanism and its possible alternative.
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- Nikitas, Alexandros, 1980, et al.
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Encouraging Sustainable Urban Access: An Exploratory Student Approach to Design of Product Service Systems.
- 2013
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Ingår i: 15th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education Conference "Growing our Future", September 2013, Dublin, Ireland. - 9781904670421
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban access is a key trans-disciplinary design axiom looking to ensure that every member of the society can reach those locations and resources one needs for a sustainable standard of living and productivity. This should be achieved in a way that does not deprive others from their right to access the same urban environment. Crafting the future of urban transportation design is a dynamic process that depends on developing a thorough understanding of the complexity of the human needs that associate with delivering ways to support urban access and, in particular, more sustainable and socially inclusive mobility patterns. New market demands and customer expectations force public and private organisations to expand their commitment to cross-border collaborations to provide attractive alternative transport modes. This paper discusses the challenge of utilizing design innovation as a tool for eco-branding and how an exploratory approach to this has been used in a post-graduate course in Visual Brand Identity and Product Design. Seven research teams, closely guided by the authors, were affiliated with designing an innovative hypothetical bike-sharing scheme for the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, with the potential to captivate road users’ acceptability. An overall description of the project concept and a brief summary of the results produced are presented herein. More specifically, this paper concentrates solely on one of the most innovative projects delivered within the course and discusses how the students adopted the challenge, as well as the actual project outcome and its contribution to the overall learning experience.
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- Nikitas, Alexandros, 1980, et al.
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Identifying and Surpassing Contextual Barriers in Cross-Border Research Collaboration: The Case of the Sino-Swedish Project Shanghai Local Interaction Platform.
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nationell Konferens i Transportforskning (Swedish National Conference on Transport Research), October, Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish advanced knowledge in integrating within a vastly car-oriented transport system a new (or improved) breed of sustainable public transport operations, complemented by the Chinese ability to speedily support urban design innovation that could take even city-wide transportation systems to new heights, guarantees a contribution to mobility research of excellent scientific quality. Having in place a well-tested know-how mechanism to overcome cross-cultural differences between distant research philosophies is the most important hurdle in any scientific collaboration between those Sweden and China and could be vital for the success of the programme, despite the best of scientific intentions and planning. After almost two years from the initiation of Shanghai Local Interaction Platform, a consistent mechanism that will promote cross-border communication and the philosophy of shared responsibility is slowly but steadily taking its final form. This work is describing this process.
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- Nikitas, Alexandros, 1980, et al.
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Innovative Bike-Sharing Design as a Research and Educational Platform for Promoting More Livable Urban Futures.
- 2013
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Ingår i: 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research, August 2013, Tokyo, Japan..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studying the viability of innovative urban access design is the key to achieve optimum results when attempting to transform dogmatism referring to conventional car-orientation into a meaningful driver of modal change that is founded on the actual societal needs for future transportation. An efficient public bicycle scheme could be the very definition of a solution that could encourage and even facilitate, to a certain extent, such a transition. This paper discusses how a post-graduate course embraced, through the means of a service-oriented design exercise, the potential introduction of such a system. More specifically, seven research teams, closely guided by the three authors, were affiliated with designing a new hypothetical bike-sharing scheme in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. The paper reports on: a) the novel educational approach the tutors employed, b) the taught experiences that helped the students utilize their potential as learners but also as inventive designers, c) the research in terms of design results and d) the overall transition from solely serving the needs of automotive mobility in urban environments to creating a knowledge platform that actually illustrates an improved design-innovation process to tackle future urban demands and eventually have a real-life context impact on the city of Gothenburg.
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- Nikitas, Alexandros, 1980, et al.
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Public Bicycles: How the Concept of Human-Oriented 'Mobility Sharing' Technology Can Influence Travel Behaviour Norms and Reshape Design Education
- 2014
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Ingår i: 16th International Conference of Engineering and Product Design Education 'Design Education & Human Technology Relations', 4-5 September, Enschede, The Netherlands.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although at the moment an excess of 500 public bicycle schemes of variable sizes operate in almost 50 countries worldwide, the impact of their use on travel behaviour and modal change have neither been studied extensively nor have been understood thoroughly as yet. This work negotiates the initial stages of an international research scheme that means to look into the attitudes and system user experiences (the latter only when it is applicable) that could define the design (or re-design) criteria for three public bicycle schemes in three cities of different size and culture. These systems are currently on three dissimilar operational phases spanning from bidding for funding to actually having a fairly successful system already in place. As a matter of fact, the choice of the three case study cities represent an effort to frame the dynamics of the bike-sharing phenomenon in a micro-scale (Drama, Greece, 50.000 residents), meso-scale (Gothenburg, Sweden, 500.000 residents) and mega-scale (Shanghai, China, 23 million residents) looking also into the attitude-shaping process before and after the implementation of a scheme. This project’s didactic role is a twin one; it aims to reinforce education practice on sustainable mobilities design by using student projects as an apparatus for supporting research and promoting urban change in real societal terms and subsequently to integrate the findings of the research into future postgraduate and undergraduate course material. Thus, bike-sharing design, for the means of this paper, aims to serve as an academic platform for integrating and synchronising research and education by promoting a balanced and timely development of technological opportunities that capture the mobility needs of tomorrow.
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- Norberg, Stefan, 1982, et al.
(författare)
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TOUCHPAD AS INTERACTION INPUT CONTROL FOR USE OF IN-VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEMS
- 2009
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Ingår i: First International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention 28‐29 September, 2009, Gothenburg/Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is evidence that In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems (IVIS) with complex interactivity can distract the driver and that new interaction methods are needed. We report on and assess the suitability of a multi-touch touchpad controlled IVIS. In summary the results show that a rich multi-touch controlled interface can be developed that users accept and like, regardless of previous personal preference of touchpad usage. The results indicate that a bi-modal feedback system, either visual-audio or visual-haptic is needed to facilitate necessary driver control with regard to road safety.
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- Ollár, Anita, 1989, et al.
(författare)
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Foresights from the Swedish Kitchen: Four Circular Value Opportunities for the Built Environment
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the kitchen as one relevant part of the home that is highly affected by frequent replacements, renovations, and a short service life. The aim is to discern circular value opportunities for the built environment by examining stakeholder activities and the value proposition associated with Swedish kitchens. The paper answers the research question ‘Which aspects in stakeholders’ value proposition of kitchens might contribute to future circular housing design?’. The empirical material was collected through a workshop, interviews, and a focus group session. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis while applying value mapping as an analytical framework. Four opportunities for circularity were identified: (1) aligning spatial and product design for a circular economy, (2) considering end-user perspectives and demands, (3) formulating regulations informed by research, and (4) developing circular products and services through collaboration. While some of these opportunities have already been emphasised in previous literature, the most distinct contribution of this paper is that it reveals the importance of spatial parameters when transitioning towards a circular housing design. The methods and results of this paper may be adapted to various building components to create a system-level circular economy in the built environment.
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- Ollár, Anita, 1989, et al.
(författare)
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Is there a need for new kitchen design? Assessing the adaptative capacity of space to enable circularity in multiresidential buildings
- 2022
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Ingår i: Frontiers of Architectural Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 2095-2635.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to contribute to the development of spatial criteria for adaptive capacity, which is identified as one important factor for the transition towards more circular housing design. The paper focuses on the kitchen, as an important function of the home which is connected to large resource flows and is exposed to frequent renovations and replacements. This paper identifies spatial characteristics of the kitchen and evaluates their potential to accommodate circular solutions focusing on adaptive capacity. As a first step, previous literature on the spatial characteristics of kitchens and indicators that support adaptability is reviewed. These are then used to develop an analytical framework to assess the adaptive capacity and circularity potential of 3624 kitchens in contemporary Swedish apartments. A qualitative approach in combination with quantitative methods is employed to analyse the selected sample. The main contributions of this paper include its spatial analytical framework, its descriptive presentation of contemporary kitchen and apartment designs, and its adaptive capacity assessment of the studied kitchens. The results point out that although the over-capacity of the floor area of kitchens and apartments can have significance for adaptability, it is not the only determinative spatial characteristics. The windows' location and distribution, the number of door openings and traffic zones, the shafts’ location and accessibility from multiple rooms, the room typology and the kitchen typology can improve the adaptive capacity and circularity potential of kitchens and dwellings. The findings show that in contemporary floorplans advantageous design solutions connected to the identified spatial characteristics are not applied in a systematic way. Further research is necessary to define the exact measures of the individual spatial characteristics and their combined application in multiresidential floorplan design.
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- Ordonez, Maria Isabel, 1981, et al.
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Collaboration between design and waste management: Can it help close the material loop?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Resources Conservation and Recycling. - : Elsevier BV. - 0921-3449 .- 1879-0658. ; 72, s. 108-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to explore the current relationship between industrial design and waste management (WM), a semi-structured interview study was carried out with 25 professionals from WM and designers that have worked with waste. The main aim was to learn about the collaborative work between these two areas and to investigate whether collaboration could help to incorporate material resources into production. The study reveals that designers and WM professionals regard the relation between disciplines in different ways, being more or less centered in their own disciplines. The designers interviewed, however tend to have a wider impression of this relation. This, together with the lack of understanding of the other's role and a fundamental scale difference when dealing with material flows were identified as the main barriers to better and more frequent collaboration. Even though some examples of collaborative work were found, they were not significant enough to have any noticeable effect on the WM system. In order to facilitate future collaboration, the contribution of the presented work is to identify areas for collaboration and suggest initial solutions for overcoming the barriers encountered to help to close the material loop
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- Ordonez, Maria Isabel, 1981, et al.
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Sorting waste in apartment buildings: facts and possibilities
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the ERSCP-EMSU 2013 conference, 16th Conference of the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) & 7th Conference of the Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU), 4 – 7 June 2013, Istanbul, Turkey..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Waste handling is a major challenge in today’s society. The amount of waste is increasing despite numerous, waste-system related improvements. In other domains of interest for sustainable development, researchers have recently started to investigate the user’s role instead of keeping a systems perspective that excludes the human factors. To investigate the use of existing waste-sorting infrastructure available at apartment buildings, this paper reports on a case study carried out in two buildings in Gothenburg/Sweden. Results from the study reveal mismatches between user needs and what the system offers. The aim was to identify a strategy that housing companies could take to allow for more effective sorting of household waste in rental housing areas, with special focus on the biodegradable fraction. The resulting strategy consists of practical solutions that can be implemented by housing companies with similar conditions.
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- Ordonez, Maria Isabel, 1981, et al.
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Waste as a starting point – how to educate design students to become active agents in closing material loops
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, 4 & 5 September 2014, University Of Twente, The Netherlands.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Waste to Design project gives students a framework to do their thesis on trying to use industrial waste for new production. The first year of the project saw four theses, shedding light on the design process required for this type of work. The most common difficulties observed were uncertainties about material properties, production possibilities and regulations. This made students strive to connect and collaborate with people from other backgrounds, suggesting that improving cross-disciplinary collaboration skills in design education would facilitate this type of work.
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- Ordonez Pizarro, Isabel, 1981, et al.
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From Industrial Waste to Product Design
- 2012
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Ingår i: DesignEd Asia conference proceedings, "Incorporating Disciplinary Dynamics Into Design Education". - 9789881672124 ; , s. 65-77
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- To use waste as a starting point for new product developmentwould be a sustainable use of material resources that alleviates waste handling loads. So far, products that use waste as a starting point have not been able to significantly affect waste trends. This shows a need for methods that facilitate using waste materials for product development. With this in mind, the project “From Industrial Waste to Product Design” was initiated.Industrial design engineering students are encouraged to do their master theses on exploring product development with currently unused waste. This article suggests a methodology to help designers achieve this. Two approaches were undertaken: a product study to review the state of the art in designing with waste; and an analysis of traditional design processes. In the end, an expanded design process was proposed, since a description of a systematic process for this issue was lacking among researchers or practitioners.
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- Ordonez Pizarro, Isabel, 1981, et al.
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Waste sorting in apartments: integrating the perspective of the user
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Cleaner Production. - : Elsevier BV. - 0959-6526. ; 106, s. 669-679
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to increase resource recovery from solid waste, better sorting of household waste is needed. This article reports on a case study about waste sorting infrastructure performance carried out in two buildings in Gothenburg, Sweden. Results from the study reveal mismatches between users' needs and what the system offers, affecting the sorting rates and quality of the sorted material. Frequent sorting errors were observed from the tenants in these apartment buildings, where more than 70% of the discards that go in the mixed waste could be sorted out into other available fractions, with biodegradable waste being the most neglected. Hazardous waste was often discarded wrongly and recurrent errors were observed in the containers available for sorting different packaging material. Given the performance observed, initial suggestions are made for housing companies to rethink the sorting system they offer to their tenants (i.e. accessible space for electronic waste, more space for biodegradable waste, possibility of sorting textiles, etc.). Most importantly this paper makes the case that housing companies have the opportunity to provide sorting infrastructure that is designed for the user, rather than just fitted to the waste management system.
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- Person, Oscar, et al.
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"It's a honda! For me..." An exploratory student project on branding and product design for the older adult population
- 2009
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Ingår i: 11th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Creating a Better World, E and PDE 2009; Brighton; United Kingdom; 10 September 2009 through 11 September 2009. ; , s. 526-531
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Physical as well as cognitive needs associated with aging and product usage were long the point of focus when designing for the older adult population, with coursework on ergonomics and human-factors as important components in design education. Today, designers and design educators are challenged to take a more holistic design approach by actively addressing peoples’ needs and wishes associated with the perceptual and experiential aspects of products. In addressing such needs and wishes, the aesthetic and symbolic qualities of products constitute important parts of the product design process. However, the literature on design for the older adult population has only cursorily addressed how educators can integrate and focus on these qualities in design education. In this paper we report on an exploratory student project conducted at Chalmers University of Technology, focusing on branding and design for the older adult population. The purpose of the project was to explore the visual identity of brands as a starting point for the aesthetic and symbolic qualities of products when designing for older users. Results from the project showed that students enthusiastically embraced branding in designing product concepts for this user group. They also displayed a number of attempts to empathise with these users’ specific needs and wishes. In total, the concepts produced in the course suggested a broad range of ideas on how to make products more perceptually as well as experientially appealing for older adults.
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- Person, Oscar, et al.
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Teaching strategic product styling: An educational approach to the use of consumer data in designing brand recognition
- 2008
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Ingår i: 10th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E and PDE 2008; Barcelona; Spain; 4 September 2008 through 5 September 2008.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Historically, design education on styling focused on the design of products with aesthetic, functional and symbolic appeal to consumers. Today with increased interest in the commercial role of design, design educators also place considerable emphasis on the skills associated with establishing visual brand recognition through styling. While there is undoubtedly much to learn from the various approaches educators use when teaching these skills, design literature has not provided many examples of the educational approaches used for establishing visual brand recognition through styling. In this article, we report on such an approach that aimed to familiarize design students with the collection and usage of quantitative consumer data when seeking visual brand recognition through styling.
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- Rahe, Ulrike, 1964
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Brillux Scala - Development of an Application-Orientated Colour System
- 2007
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Ingår i: The 39th Nordic Ergonomics Society Conference, NES2007 in Sweden, October 1-3, www.nes2007.se. ; , s. Session E1d, A108, 1-6
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The contribution presents the designing process of Brillux Scala and the outcome itself, an application-related coding system for the methodical acquisition and designation of body colours. The authoress has directed the project, been responsible for its concept as well as its results and has also created both the product and the graphic design.. Several national and international design awards have been conferred to the project, among them the iF Communication Award and The Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany. The combination of methods related to perception with those of metric valences has led to an entirely new colour system as orientated towards application.
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- Rahe, Ulrike, 1964, et al.
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Creating Novel Product Form Based on Formal Aesthetics – A Method for Advanced Form Design Education
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Antwerp, 6-7 September, 2012..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the most distinct aspects of creativity in design is an aesthetic sense, an indubitable determinant of product success in the market. It is therefore of great importance to nurture creativity in terms of formal aesthetics in design education. However, the focus of design education has shifted away from product form and instead towards user-centred design (UCD) practices. An intrinsic challenge in the tradition of user-centred design is that it initiates creating products from the definition of some user needs, educing design solutions that are, to some extent, already known by the user, as familiarity factors are favoured. In our research, we turn the established UCD process around and propose an approach for exploring and creating novel product form with a focus on formal aesthetics. This paper elaborates on the Formal Aesthetics Design Approach that has been explored during a three-year case study, performed within a Masters programme in Industrial Design Engineering. A deep exploration of aesthetic form opportunities, consciously without any respect to user demands, was carried out by a structured five-step method. There was no ‘given’ or predefined aim for the form design process, which lead to a creative and experimental yet structured generation of formal solutions beyond the functionality of use. Hence, a variety of novel and unexpected form ideas emerged, broadening the morphological form repertoire as a result of the suggested method of work. This research illustrates benefits offered by applying a formal aesthetic design approach as a creative form generation process in design education.
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- Rahe, Ulrike, 1964, et al.
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Exploration and design of the logistics and hardware for accomplishment of geosciences on the moon
- 2010
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Ingår i: 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010. Prague, 27 September-1 October 2010. - 9781617823688 ; 2, s. 1523-1532
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the pursuit of defining the next generation of manned lunar explorations, NASA is working with the development of a new infrastructure that will allow prolonged stays on the lunar surface. A key science activity during these missions will be the collection and analysis of lunar rocks. Currently, NASA is building habitat mock-ups for the Moon to attempt and test the best living and working conditions. While incorporating a focus on living quarters and hygiene areas, the needs of workshops and laboratories have only been briefly addressed as yet. The purpose of this project was to explore the possibilities for geosciences on the Moon and to set the stage for the integration of a geosciences module in a lunar habitat mock-up. The challenge was to develop a tenable systems concept view on how lunar geosciences will be conducted during longer stays on the Moon and how the related logistics chains should be. In the second instance, the appropriate lunar geosciences hardware was designed, taking into account the needs of the geologists as well as the constraints of the lunar environment and the exploration conditions. The first part of the research consisted of a broad investigation of the prospective processing of geosciences on the Moon in terms of the whole chain from identification of the samples, selection, protection, labelling, transportation, storage, examination to deliverance back to Earth. Information has been gathered through literature reviews, study visits and user interviews. On that base, three concept solutions were presented: The first is a glove box to be placed inside of the lunar habitat or a pressurised vehicle. This glove box is equipped with an analytical instrument as a combination of a camera, microscope and Raman spectroscope. Samples are brought into the glove box via a specially developed transfer container, which easily connects to the glove box. The second concept consists of a semi-automatic robot that is placed outside of the habitat. By scanning the collected samples it can create virtual representations to be reviewed by a geologist on a touch based computer screen inside the habitat. If the geologist finds a sample particularly interesting, requests of further analytical procedures could be sent to the robot. The third concept consists of a bag for storing rock samples. The aim with this sample bag is to protect and organise the collected samples.
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- Rahe, Ulrike, 1964, et al.
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GROCERY BAG HOLDER FOR CARS
- 2009
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Ingår i: The 41st Nordic Ergonomics Society Conference, NES2009 in Elsinore/Denmark, June 22-24 2009.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The contribution summarises a Master thesis in Industrial Design Engineering, carried out at Chalmers University of Technology in the second half of 2007 in collaboration with Semcon Sweden AB and Volvo Cars Corporation. In the beginning of this thesis an array of questions was put together. The most significant ones were: Is there a need among car owners of having a grocery bag holder in the car? As well as: Could the bag holder be totally self-instructing?Through research based upon gathered information this thesis tries to answer these and other raised questions. The information was gathered using, among other methods, literature and user studies, analyses of existing bag holder used by other brands, as well as through user interviews and observations. When this information had been put together, focus was shifted on to developing trough the use of various design methods, focus groups and engineering of concept models.A need among users could be found and the project was therefore continued towards a functional prototype. This prototype was designed using the Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool Catia V5 and then engineered using rapid prototyping (SLS-technology).A critical review has been held throughout the project and work has been pushed forward through discussions within the group, with instructors from Chalmers, with Semcon and Volvo personnel as well as with contacts from other companies.
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