Abstract:Product experience encompasses all five sensory modalities through which information is received (Shifferstein and Desmet, 2008) therefore designing taking into account all the five senses is important. Besides, advances in technology make it easier to accomplish designing for five senses in many industries. On the other hand, particularly in the early years of undergraduate level industrial design education, sense of vision is often emphasized more compared to the other four senses. In order to underline the importance of the remaining senses, a unique studio course has been designed at Istanbul Medipol University, aiming second year industrial design students. In this particular studio course, in addition to their regular sketchbooks, students are expected to keep a dairy of sound, tactile, smell and taste. The course is designed in four modules and this paper elaborates on the details of Module I that focuses on the sense of hearing. Module I is interdisciplinary in the sense that a psychologist and a music composer/virtuoso have been invited to contribute to the classes so that designs can be treated at the visceral, behavioural and reflective levels (Norman, 2004) more profoundly. This paper aims to share the outcomes related to the 15 projects carried out during the course such that the advantages and the disadvantages of a multi-sensory design studio set up are revealed.
Bathroom is one of the first places that older adults face with challenge and fear. Difficulty or dependence in body-cleaning affect older adults’ daily lives dramatically. Despite the consequences associated with disability in body-cleaning, little is known about older adults’ experiences on it. One reason for this lack of knowledge may be that body-cleaning is a private activity and a difficult task to explore. This article will present seven poems that are results of a research study where older women were asked to narrate of their own body-cleaning experience to a tape recorder while they were performing the task.
The major motivating factor for this paper is the search for a prior shared experience, from which personas would be withdrawn among industrial design students participating to the Design Research and Theory course. All of the participants enrolled to the course were also taking the Interdisciplinary Studio Course (ISC) together with architecture, interior architecture and urban planning students and they were complaining constantly concerning the difficulty of working with their teammates i.e., students coming from different educational backgrounds and having different personal traits. Thus, participants were asked to build fictional personas reflecting their ISC teammates and give suggestions on how ISC could be improved. Findings have been analyzed using grounded theory and interaction process analysis and compared with student suggestions. Results reveal that in order to improve the ISC, students have three requirements: i) a more structured syllabus, ii) individual performance evaluation in addition to team performance evaluation iii) completion of the team project within the course hours at school. In the light of these findings, authors suggest that students should be given training for decision making and time management before the start of the ISCs.
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