Virtual Reality-based Collaborative Environment (VRCE) for effective product design

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Yin Kan
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Effective Product

Improvement of user experience using virtual reality in open-architecture product design

2017 ◽  
Vol 232 (13) ◽  
pp. 2264-2275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Song ◽  
Fangyuan Chen ◽  
Qingjin Peng ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Peihua Gu
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Product Design ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Open Architecture ◽  
Interactive System ◽  
Product Function ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Effective Product ◽  
Open Architecture Product ◽  
System Effectiveness

User experience has a significant impact on the effective product design and improvement, especially for a personalized product to meet user’s individual need. The development of personalized products requires data from user experience in the evaluation of the product function and performance. The existing methods of Internet-based interactive platforms and direct market user surveys cannot provide users full experience of product features. This research proposes a user interactive system based on virtual reality technologies to provide users a close-real experience in the development of open-architecture products. The system provides users an interface built on the virtual environment. The users can review a product design by virtually operating and evaluating the product. The system records users’ operations and feedbacks for designers to improve the product. Food trucks designed using the open-architecture concept are used as applications to verify the proposed method. A user survey is conducted to examine the system effectiveness.

Virtual reality applications in food science. Current knowledge and prospects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Gere ◽  
Abdul Hannan Bin Zulkarnain ◽  
Dorina Szakál ◽  
Orsolya Fehér ◽  
Zoltán Kókai
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Food Science ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
New Instrument

AbstractVirtual reality (VR) offers a new instrument for food scientists to evaluate different aspects of food products. The possible applications range from product design testing, evaluation of the labels, effects of different placements or the evaluation of store layouts. These analyses help us to get a deeper understanding of consumers' minds. Additionally, VR can be coupled by several different tools (e.g. eye-trackers or skin conductance sensors or even electroencephalographs). However, as there have been only a limited number of applications published, there are several open questions which need to be answered. In the presented paper the authors aim i) to introduce the current knowledge on VR applications in food science by introducing several fields of applications and ii) to point out the most important questions regarding the applications of VR in food science.

HyperReality

2009 ◽  
pp. 631-640
Author(s):  
Nobuyoshi Terashima
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Virtual Human ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Real ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
Communication Paradigm ◽  
As If

On the Internet, a cyberspace is created where people communicate together, usually by using textual messages. Therefore, they cannot see each other in cyberspace. Whenever they communicate, it is desirable for them to see each other as if they were gathered at the same place. To achieve this, various kinds of concepts have been proposed, such as a collaborative environment, Tele-Immersion, and tele-presence (Sherman & Craig, 2003). In this article, HyperReality (HR) is introduced. HR is a communication paradigm between the real and the virtual (Terashima, 1995, 2002; Terashima & Tiffin, 2002; Terashima, Tiffin, & Ashworth, in press). The real means a real inhabitant, such as a real human or a real animal. The virtual means a virtual inhabitant, a virtual human, or a virtual animal. HR provides a communication environment where inhabitants, real or virtual, that are at different locations, meet and do cooperative work together as if they were gathered at the same place. HR can be developed based on virtual reality (VR) and telecommunications technologies.

scholarly journals Anthropometric Procedures for Protective Equipment Sizing and Design

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Hsiao
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Test Panel ◽  
Design Paradigm ◽  
Equipment Sizing ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Fall Arrest ◽  
Protective Structures ◽  
Effective Product

Objectives: This article presented four anthropometric theories (univariate, bivariate/probability distribution, multivariate, and shape-based methods) for protective equipment design decisions. Background: While the significance of anthropometric information for product design is well recognized, designers continue to face challenges in selecting efficient anthropometric data processing methods and translating the acquired information into effective product designs. Methods: For this study, 100 farm tractor operators, 3,718 respirator users, 951 firefighters, and 816 civilian workers participated in four studies on the design of tractor roll-over protective structures (ROPS), respirator test panels, fire truck cabs, and fall-arrest harnesses, respectively. Their anthropometry and participant-equipment interfaces were evaluated. Results: Study 1 showed a need to extend the 90-cm vertical clearance for tractor ROPS in the current industrial standards to 98.3 to 101.3 cm. Study 2 indicated that current respirator test panel would have excluded 10% of the male firefighter population; a systematic adjustment to the boundaries of test panel cells was suggested. Study 3 provided 24 principal component analysis-based firefighter body models to facilitate fire truck cab design. Study 4 developed an improved gender-based fall-arrest harness sizing scheme to supplant the current unisex system. Conclusions: This article presented four anthropometric approaches and a six-step design paradigm for ROPS, respirator test panel, fire truck cab, and fall-arrest harness applications, which demonstrated anthropometric theories and practices for defining protective equipment fit and sizing schemes. Applications: The study provided a basis for equipment designers, standards writers, and industry manufacturers to advance anthropometric applications for product design and improve product efficacy.

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