A Study on Morphology of HongKong Shopping Centers

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 1796-1800
Author(s):  
Ye Zi Dai
Keyword(s):  
Local Condition ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Design Concepts

It has been several decades since HongKong developed shopping centers. During the process, a set of design concepts, which in accordance with actual local condition, were produced. By studying the Morphology of HongKong shopping centers about exterior environment and interior space, the article tried to analysis their design features as well as the experiences we can learn from.

DIGITAL RITUALIZED INTERACTION: TOWARDS CONCEPTUALIZING MEDIATED FAMILIAL BONDING VIA FAMILY CONNECTING TECHNOLOGY

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazillah Mohmad Kamal ◽  
Nor Laila Md. Noor ◽  
Hanif Baharin
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Design ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Interaction Ritual ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Interpretative Analysis ◽  
Family Ritual

Appropriation of connecting technology in the context of family use has revealed its affordance as mediating tool to facilitate familial bonding, as that which is beyond communication. Yet, its operationalization through the HCI design is still not extensively studied. It is postulated that the theory of Interaction Ritual and family ritual could serve as a lens for understanding of how interface design mediates such bonding in digital environment. As theories, they are specifically tailored to understanding interactions among people and technologies which further assist in conducting an interpretative analysis in producing mappings of interaction design concepts to bonding eliciting design features informed by earlier work. The model serves as a new foundation to inform appropriate design of future family connecting technology in pursuit of familial bonding.  

scholarly journals LUXURY REDEFINED: A CASE STUDY OF THE ANANDA-IN THE HIMALAYAS, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Rahul Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism ◽  
Connection With Nature ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

Purpose of study: The purpose of this case study is to comprehend how the allure of a hotel plays a significant role in a tourist’s goal of decision, desires for the fulfilment, aims to return to, an impression of advantages and inspirations, the measure of cash spent, and the duration of the stay. Methodology: This study employed a descriptive case study of the Ananda-In the Himalayas, focusing on understanding the various design perspectives of this place with the different amenities provided by it, making it one of the top luxury destination resort. Main Findings: According to this study, the destination, amenities provided, and hospitality of this place make it the top wellness resort. The place is a beautiful combination of design architecture, elegant lighting and has a connection with nature, which makes it attractive for its visitors.  Limitations: The study has only been done of one restaurant with a proper literature review. Therefore, the results of the study may be applied with caution outside the scope of the study. Social Implications: Although this case study is way more descriptive than predictive, the results can help researchers from varied realms of hospitality and tourism with valuable insights regarding the direction of future publishing efforts in this field. This study may also help researchers to understand the design concepts and features required for a luxury destination spa resort. Originality: This place has not been studied with a perspective of this kind, and therefore, not much literature is there, especially on this resort. However, this study will bridge the gap between the design features, destination, and the hospitality provided by the resort. This study can be used as a benchmark for other studies, which will be done based on both tourism and hospitality, and in today’s era, both are becoming more demanding, more varied, and more qualitative.

scholarly journals A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Room Elements Desired by Family Members and Visitors of Hospitalized Patients: Implications for Medical/Surgical Hospital Patient Room Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily S. Patterson ◽  
Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders ◽  
Steven A. Lavender ◽  
Carolyn M. Sommerich ◽  
Sanghyun Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Hospital Patient ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Hospital Room ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Room Design ◽  
Improve Hospital ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Objective: To identify family members’ and visitors’ needs with relation to the design of a hospital room. Background: There is a trend toward incorporating family zones in hospital patient rooms in order to improve patient satisfaction and encourage family caregivers to stay longer and overnight. Method: A mixed-method study was employed. Interviews of patients and family caregivers were conducted to understand opportunities to improve hospital room designs based on recent experiences. Features intended to support short-term and overnight visitors were embedded in five full-scale simulated room design concepts. Small groups of family caregivers and patients toured two room design concepts and reacted real time to room features. A grounded theory approach was employed to identify emerging themes. Results: A theoretical design framework is developed for the needs of family members and visitors for a range of time periods. This framework is founded upon desires to help make the patient feel more comfortable. There are various levels of helping the patient feel more comfortable, including visiting, keeping company, providing support, providing assistance, and being a caregiver. Beyond this core need, family members and visitors must take care of their own needs in order to feel comfortable in the hospital room. Activities associated with these needs include sitting, relaxing, eating, working, tending to daily needs, and resting overnight. Conclusions: Potential implications for architects, healthcare planners, and interior space designers are described. Design and renovation guidance for the hospital room environment in order to support the needs and expectations of families and visitors is provided.

Empirical Research Methods for Evaluating Affective Satisfaction of Consumer Products

2015 ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
Jaehyun Park ◽  
Sung H. Han
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Core Affect ◽  
Empirical Research Methods ◽  
The Subject

Affective satisfaction can be defined as a subjective barometer of feelings perceived by users while experiencing and interacting with products. First proposed by Dr. Han of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Dr. Nagamachi of Hiroshima University, affective engineering has since been the subject of numerous studies designed to build relationship models between design features and affective satisfaction. Some case studies used mobile phones to investigate affective satisfaction. Setting aside practice-based approaches, the cognitive processes of affect and emotion have also been investigated in the field of psychology, including the work of Dr. Russell at Boston University, which regards core affect as a neutral and calm state. This article reviews existing literature, and suggests methods for developing and validating product design concepts in terms of affective satisfaction.

Improved Thermal Comfort of Helmets for Two-Wheeler Motorcycles: Technical Note

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Thirumurugaveerakumar
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Properties ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Technical Note ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Thermal Discomfort ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Head Form ◽  
Two Wheeler

A helmet used by motorcyclists is always of critical importance for the safety of the rider. A well-designed helmet should be able to absorb as much energy as possible and to diffuse it to the whole helmet during an impact. This project is intended to improve the design features with respect to thermal comfort of Helmet shell. The vital design features of helmets are extent of protection, ISO head form, and peripheral visions. Thermal discomfort can cause rider fatigue thereby reducing the overall concentration during driving. Various design concepts, such as adding ventilation holes, increasing clearance between the helmet shell and the head and covering the shell with reflective materials, are used to improve the thermal properties. The existing design of helmets does not account for the thermal comfort of the helmet shell into consideration so, a new design prototype is developed. At this stage, attention was also paid to structural safety, appearance and manufacturability. The thermal comforts that can be derived from this design are significantly improved over other commercially available helmets.

Adopting hybridized multicriteria decision model as a decision tool in engineering design

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olayinka Mohammed Olabanji ◽  
Khumbulani Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Optimal Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Decision Tool ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Decision Matrix ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Left And Right

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the suitability of adopting hybridized multicriteria decision-making models as a decision tool in engineering design. This decision tool will assist design engineers and manufacturers to determine a robust design concept before simulation and manufacturing while all the design features and sub features would have been identified during the decision-making process. Design/methodology/approach Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) and fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) are hybridized and applied to obtain optimal design of a reconfigurable assembly fixture (RAF) from a set of alternative design concepts. Design features and sub features associated with the RAF are identified and compared using fuzzified pairwise comparison matrices to obtain weights of their relative importance in the optimal design. The FAHP obtained the fuzzy synthetic extent (FSE) values of the design features and sub features. The FSE values are used as weights of the design features and sub features in generating the decision matrix. FTOPSIS and FTOPSIS based on left and right scores were adopted to predict effects of the weights. Results were obtained for normalized and unnormalized weights of the design features and its effects on the relative closeness coefficients of the design alternatives. Findings The improved performance of the FTOPSIS based on left and right scores is due to the involvement of the left and right scores of weights of the design features in the computation of distances from positive and negative ideal solutions. Embedding the weights of the design features in the normalized decision matrix before estimating the distances of the design concepts from ideal solutions reduces the dependency of the closeness coefficients on the weights of the design features. This also decreases the difference in the final values of the design concepts. In essence, the weights of the design features have an impact in the closeness coefficient. There is reduction in the closeness coefficients of the design concepts due to normalization of the weights of the design features. However, normalizing the weights of the design features did not affect the variations in the final values of the design concept. As the final value of the design concepts can be influenced by the normalized weights of the design features, it can be implied that normalization of weights of the sub features will also affect the decision matrix. The study has been able to proof that hybridizing FAHP and FTOPSIS can produce effective results for decisions on optimal design by the application of FTOPSIS based on left and right scores rather than the general FTOPSIS. Originality/value This research develops a hybridized multicriteria decision-making model for decision-making in engineering design. It presents a detailed extension of hybridized FAHP and FTOPSIS based on left and right scores as a useful tool for considering the relative importance of design features and sub features in optimal design selection.

scholarly journals Fusing Multi-Attribute Decision Models for Decision Making to Achieve Optimal Product Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-337
Author(s):  
Olayinka Mohammed Olabanji ◽  
Khumbulani Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Decision Matrix ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Fuzzy Vikor ◽  
Design Alternatives ◽  
Optimal Product Design

AbstractManufacturers need to select the best design from alternative design concepts in order to meet up with the demand of customers and have a larger share of the competitive market that is flooded with multifarious designs. Evaluation of conceptual design alternatives can be modelled as a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) process because it includes conflicting design features with different sub features. Hybridization of Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) models has been applied in various field of management, science and engineering in order to have a robust decision-making process but the extension of these hybridized MADM models to decision making in engineering design still requires attention. In this article, an integrated MADM model comprising of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP), Fuzzy Pugh Matrix and Fuzzy VIKOR was developed and applied to evaluate conceptual designs of liquid spraying machine. The fuzzy AHP was used to determine weights of the design features and sub features by virtue of its fuzzified comparison matrix and synthetic extent evaluation. The fuzzy Pugh matrix provides a methodical structure for determining performance using all the design alternatives as basis and obtaining aggregates for the designs using the weights of the sub features. The fuzzy VIKOR generates the decision matrix from the aggregates of the fuzzified Pugh matrices and determine the best design concept from the defuzzified performance index. At the end, the optimal design concept is determined for the liquid spraying machine.

scholarly journals Development of 6MW-Class Gas Turbine MF-61

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Terazaki ◽  
I. Fukue ◽  
Y. Tsukuda ◽  
S. Aoki
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Mechanical Characteristic ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Outlet Temperature ◽  
Heavy Duty ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Full Load ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Fuel Flexibility ◽  
Heavy Duty Gas Turbine

The MF-61 is a 6MW-class heavy duty gas turbine which was developed for cogeneration application. A single can type combustor with wide fuel flexibility and advanced high efficiency compressor has been adopted for this engine. The combustor outlet temperature is designed at 1150°C. This paper describes the design concepts of the machine, the design features, and the verification programs carried out in Takasago, Japan. The results of the full load shop test verified that the performance, the mechanical characteristic and the emission well satisfied the initial design goals.

Advances in Steam Path Technology

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. I. Cofer
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Path Design ◽  
Steam Leakage ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
New Generation

For many years, GE has been conducting research to understand better the loss mechanisms that degrade the aerodynamic performance of steam turbine stages, and to develop new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computer programs to predict these losses accurately. This paper describes a number of new steam path design features that have been introduced in the GE steam turbine product line to improve turbine performance and reliability. These features include diaphragms with contoured sidewalls, advanced vortex blading with compound tangential lean, new continuously coupled last-stage buckets with improved aerodynamic efficiency and reliability, improved downward and axial flow exhaust hoods, and better steam leakage control devices. The benefits of these new features for both new units and retrofits of existing units are discussed. In addition, the paper discusses the new generation of three-dimensional viscous CFD analysis codes being used to develop new design concepts, including codes developed by GE as well as those obtained externally. Also described are the extensive laboratory test programs being conducted to validate the CFD codes and verify the predicted efficiency gains for new design features. Last, the paper describes new and unique state-of-the-art steam path design automation and optimization tools that dramatically reduce the design cycle time for new advanced aerodynamic designs.

Continuing Airworthiness Challenges

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (6S) ◽  
pp. S145-S150
Author(s):  
Ulf G. Goranson
Keyword(s):  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
Attention To Detail

Structural safety is an evolutionary accomplishment, and attention to detail design features is key to its achievement. A multitude of design considerations is involved in ensuring the structural integrity of Boeing jet transports that have common design concepts validated by extensive analyses, tests, and three decades of service. As airplanes approach their design service objectives, the incidences of fatigue and corrosion may become widespread. Continuing airworthiness of the aging jet fleet requires diligent performance from the manufacturer, the airlines, and airworthiness authorities.

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