Survey & Quantitative Design Strategies on Hospital Accessible Signs

2014 ◽  
Vol 507 ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Wei Yang Jia
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Design Element ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Rational Science ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
Tianjin City

Hospital accessible signs are important guide for the elderly, disabled or ordinary people. According to the theories of environmental behavior and sign-system universal design, the types of accessible signs and demand features of all sorts of disable people are analyzed, and the necessity of quantitative design for hospital accessible signs is put forward. With investigation and research on accessible signs of 25 major hospitals in Tianjin city, the existing design problems were found out with the method of comprehensive comparison between subjective perception with instances and standard literatures, thus the quantitative design recommendations on each design element of hospital accessible signs are summarized and obtained, including scale, mounting height, graphics, color, fonts and so on, to provide rational science indicator reference to accessible signs design and the construction of accessible environment.

scholarly journals Elderly Characteristics with Frailty Syndrome by Frailty Index Questionnaire – 40 (FI - 40) at Bandung Nursing Home

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivany R Rahmadani ◽  
Lazuardhi Dwipa ◽  
Yuni S Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Frail Elderly ◽  
Frailty Index ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Frailty Syndrome ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Body Function ◽  
Foot Problems ◽  
Quantitative Design

Frailty syndrome is a state of decreased body function, thereby increasing susceptibility to poor clinical outcomes. The risks of developing frailty syndrome increase in the elderly at Nursing Home. This study is expected to provide characteristic data of frailty syndrome as the basis for the prevention and management for the elderly. This study is conducted by using a descriptive quantitative design. The data is taken by using FI-40 questionnaire consisting of 40 questions in the elderly at Bandung done by using total sampling. There are 42(58.3%) of pre-frail and 7(9.7%) of frail elderly out of 72 data. Pre-frail prevails mostly in women (29 subjects; 69.1%) and at age of 60-69 years in 18 subjects (42.8%). Frail elderly is found mostly in women (3 subjects; 42.8%) and aged 70-79 years (3 subjects ; (42.8). The most common cause of frailty is eye and foot problems in 7(100%). The most common cause of pre-frail is the assumption of health level in 35(83.3%). This study concludes that frailty syndrome is common among the elderly and special attention must be paid to eye and foot problems.Keywords: elderly, frailty syndrome, FI-40 questionnaire, nursing home

scholarly journals Design Method to Structure Orthosis Design: Camptocormia Postural Brace Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Duarte ◽  
Jean-Pierre Nadeau ◽  
Antonio Ramos ◽  
Michel Mesnard
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Upright Posture ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Class 1

The orthosis is considered a class 1 medical device which often originates from a nonstructured development process. As these devices are mainly developed by small- and medium-sized enterprises, with no standard research method, the result can be an unadapted device which may not respond to the user’s needs and which in the short term may be abandoned. One way to solve this problem is to define and apply standard rules and procedures throughout the development/design process. Although methodologies may solve the “empiricism” in orthosis design problems, these design strategies are not applied during orthosis development due to the particularities of this field and the difficulties in linking the required knowledge and the actors that may be present during the orthosis development. The objective of this work is to develop a methodology to structure the orthosis design process that takes into account both the device life cycle and the different stakeholders involved in the design process. A case study was used to validate the proposed methodology. It was applied to the development of an orthosis to treat a specific postural disorder called camptocormia, also known as bent spine syndrome. This disorder is characterized by the anteroflexion of the trunk and especially affects elderly people. Contrary to scoliosis, the characteristics of camptocormia are not permanent, which means that the patient is able to straighten his posture. A postural brace is used to treat this disorder which enables the patient to redress and maintain the correct upright posture of the trunk.

Transferring Design Strategies From Human to Computer and Across Design Problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayush Raina ◽  
Jonathan Cagan ◽  
Christopher McComb
Keyword(s):  
Computational Design ◽  
Configuration Design ◽  
Probabilistic Representation ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Transfer Strategies ◽  
Human Problem ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Solving any design problem involves planning and strategizing, where intermediate processes are identified and then sequenced. This is an abstract skill that designers learn over time and then use across similar problems. However, this transfer of strategies in design has not been effectively modeled or leveraged within computational agents. This note presents an approach to represent design strategies using a probabilistic model. The model provides a mechanism to generate new designs based on certain design strategies while solving configuration design task in a sequential manner. This work also demonstrates that this probabilistic representation can be used to transfer strategies from human designers to computational design agents in a way that is general and useful. This transfer-driven approach opens up the possibility of identifying high-performing behavior in human designers and using it to guide computational design agents. Finally, a quintessential behavior of transfer learning is illustrated by agents as transferring design strategies across different problems led to an improvement in agent performance. The work presented in this study leverages the Cognitively Inspired Simulated Annealing Teams (CISAT) framework, an agent-based model that has been shown to mimic human problem-solving in configuration design problems.

A Design Strategy of Interactive Agent for the Elderly : Field Research for Searching Design Element Based on Self-Determination Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 891-905
Author(s):  
Joongsin Park ◽  
Jungmi Yoon ◽  
Yuhao Huang ◽  
Younyoung Kang ◽  
Hyunjeong Ko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Design Element

Sustainable Design Strategies to Assist the Elderly with Dementia

ICSDC 2011 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Han Ahn ◽  
Hee Jung Kim ◽  
Young Oh Choi ◽  
Annie R. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Design ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Design Strategies

scholarly journals Perceptual Digital Gaps in Generations between Adoption and Usage of Different Modes of Payment in Digital Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3651-3655
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Purchase Behavior ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Mobile Payments ◽  
The Government ◽  
Digital Transactions ◽  
Digital Payments

The Mobile payment revolution has led to 55% increase in digital payments in India in the past one year. Currently there are 10 million locations that accept digital payments in the country. Though, internet connectivity, digital literacy and perceptual gaps in generations have proved to be the major hurdles for service providers to capture the full market potential for digital payments. This study holistically approaches the topic by critically analyzing the data collected from different strata based on age groups. It was observed that all the generations are readily adopting digital payments whereas there is still a perceptual gap that exist in the regular usage of mobile payments among the elderly and the young generations. Data analysis also reveals that mobile payments are mostly used for the low value purchase by the customers in comparison to the high value purchase as there is high risk and high channel cost associated with mobile transactions and also government regulations do not support very high value transactions. Another trend observed was Impulsive purchase behavior in customers (especially millennial) using mobile payments as these purchases are unplanned, unintentional and unthoughtful. These facts can be used as an input by the Government departments and the financial service providers to design strategies to bring convenience in the adoption and usage of digital transactions, to bridge the gap in the adoption of digital payments between young and old generations.

scholarly journals Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-256
Author(s):  
Lina Van Aerschot ◽  
Jaana Parviainen
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Care Robots ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Human Care ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

Abstract Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expectations of robots revolutionizing care of older people, the role of robots in human care has remained marginal. The value of world trade in service robots, including care robots, is rather small. We argue that the implementation of robots in care is not primarily due to negative user attitudes or ethical problems, but to problems in R&D and manufacturing. The care robots currently available on the market are capable of simple, repetitive tasks or colloquial interaction. Thus far, also research on care robots is mostly conducted using imaginary scenarios or small-scale tests built up for research purposes. To develop useful and affordable robot solutions that are ethically, socially and ecologically sustainable, we suggest that robot initiatives should be evaluated within the framework of care ecosystems. This implies that attention has to be paid to the social, emotional and practical contexts in which care is given and received. Also, the political, economic and ecological realities of organizing care and producing technological commodities have to be acknowledged. It is time to openly discuss the drivers behind care robot initiatives to outline the bigger picture of organizing care under conditions of limited resources.

Robust Design Strategies for Heavy Duty Axial Compressor Inlet Strut

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Cioffi ◽  
Enrico Puppo ◽  
Andrea Silingardi ◽  
Mauro Macciò
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Axial Compressor ◽  
Heavy Duty ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Compressor Blades ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
Statistical Effect ◽  
Compressor Inlet ◽  
Multistage Axial Compressor

Novel procedures for the robust optimization of compressor blades are here presented and applied to the optimal design of the inlet duct struts of an heavy duty, multistage axial compressor. Different approaches can be adopted to properly define the struts actual inlet flow boundary conditions, which can be affected by spatial non-uniformity or uncertainness: suitable deterministic and stochastic approaches are therefore introduced. A number of blade solutions are computed and discussed. The presented procedures are able to find new struts geometries giving improved performances with respect to a reference strut, mainly with an air mass flow increase. In particular the proposed stochastic procedure seems to be quite appropriate for a large class of design problems with parameters fluctuation or to properly analyze the statistical effect of changing operative conditions occurrence in power plants.

Recording and reuse of design strategies in an integrated case-based design system

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenmu Wang ◽  
H. Craig Howard
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Base Plate ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Design System ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Electrical Transmission ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Plate Design ◽  
Critical Constraints ◽  
Case Based

AbstractHuman designers often adopt strategies from previous similar cases to guide their search in new design tasks. We have developed an approach for automated design strategy capture and reuse. That approach has been implemented in DDIS, a prototype structural design system that uses a blackboard framework to integrate case-based and domain-based reasoning. Plans, goals, and critical constraints from user-selected previous cases are combined with case-independent reasoning to solve underconstrained parametric structural design problems. This article presents a detailed example of design strategy recording and reuse in base plate design for electrical transmission poles.

The Effects of Open Innovation on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Student Design Teams

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Koch ◽  
Richard J. Schulte ◽  
Irem Y. Tumer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Open Design ◽  
Information Infrastructures ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
Complex Design ◽  
Engineering Environment

As the need to innovate more creatively and effectively becomes increasingly apparent in engineering design, powerful open design tools and practices have emerged that are allowing organizations and firms to tap an already vast pool of skills, knowledge and intellect to solve complex design problems. The need for engineering design educators to bring these new trends into the classroom continues to grow as the industry for which students are being prepared begins to revamp its design strategies and practices in the pursuit of more openly accessible information infrastructures. By conducting an experimental study of over 25 student design groups in an undergraduate design engineering class, our team was able to gauge the relevance and utility of collaboration and knowledge sharing between and within design groups. Specifically, issues and opportunities were identified to help bring engineering and design education in line with the increasingly networked and distributed professional engineering environment that students will be enter upon graduation.

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