Beyond the Design Perspective of Gero’s FBS Framework

Cascini, Gaetano; Frate, Luca Del; Fantoni, Gualtiero; Montagna, Francesca

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0510-4_5

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“…The subsequent literature has elaborated on this notion and in some case has significantly extended it. Several authors (Cascini 2011, Gibson et al, 1994, Turvey 1992, Stoffregen 2003 agree with the common point that an affordance manifests itself in relation to the action and direct perception capabilities of a particular actor. This means that affordance is a relational concept, requiring the interaction between different entities, rather than a properties of entities themselves (object or actor).…”

Section: Affordance: a Concept Between Engineering Design And Cognitive Psychologymentioning

confidence: 89%

Approaches to Automatically Extract Affordances from Patents

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The importance of affordance in Engineering design is well established. Artifacts that are able to activate spontaneous and immediate users’ reactions are considered the outcome of good design practice.A huge effort has been made by researchers for understanding affordances: yet these efforts have been somewhat elusive. In particular, they have been limited to case studies and experimental studies, usually involving a small subset of affordances. No systematic effort has been carried out to list all known affordance effects. This paper offers preliminary steps for such an ambitious effort.We propose a set of three different approaches of Natural Language Processing techniques to be used to extract meaningful affordance information from the full text of patents: 1) a simple word search, 2) a lexicon of affordances and 3) a rule-based system.The results give in-depth measures of how rare affordances in patents are, and a fine grain analysis of the linguistical construction of affordances. Finally, we show an interesting output of our method, that has detected affordances for disabled people, showing the ability of our system to automatically collect design-relevant knowledge.

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Section: Affordance: a Concept Between Engineering Design And Cognitive Psychologymentioning

confidence: 89%

Approaches to Automatically Extract Affordances from Patents

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“…The actor is considered to be the entity, human or otherwise, capable of taking action. From the design perspective of the extended model of the FBS, introduced by Cascini et al (2011), the concept of affordance is strictly related to the notion of misuse. Misuses are those conditions in which the user manipulates the product in ways that were not intended by the designer, still keeping the same goal.…”

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Detecting Bad Design and Bias From Patents

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Pardelli²,

Fantoni

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Proc. Des. Soc.

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The representation of the product use context is a well established design practice in Engineering Design. Recently, design theory is studying the product interaction involving several cognitive aspects such as the possible conditions in which a wrong interaction occurs. The aim of this paper is to find a quantitative evidence of the causes of these misuses. In particular, this study focuses on the detection of bad design and biases.In this paper, we propose a method that helps to the automatic detection of bad design and biases from patents. The method is based on an approach that defines syntactic rules to detect sentences containing these artifacts. These rules are defined based on an exploratory analysis of the explicit mention of “bad design” and “bias” and then, tested with multiple experiments on a sample of patents. The results give a first quantitative evidence of the presence of bad design and biases in patents and consequently of their importance in the design theory. In particular, it is provided a fine grain analysis of the linguistic structure of sentences containing these artifacts helping designers in detecting automatically them from patents.

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“…product design and product experience. Additionally, the construct of user design has been discussed a lot (Hassenzahl, 2003;Hassenzahl, 2004;Redström, 2006;Cascini et al, 2011) separately from the construct of user experience (McCarthy and Wright, 2004;Battarbee and Koskinen, 2005;Hassenzahl et al, 2010;Wright and McCarthy, 2010;Bargas-Avila and Hornbaek, 2011) in recent literature.…”

Section: Product Design and Moderating Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both the constructs of user design and user experience have been extensively researched separately over the past two decades or so in numerous studies. In particular, the user design construct has been investigated by the following studies: Hassenzahl (2003), Hassenzahl (2004), Redström (2006) and Cascini et al (2011) Additionally, the user experience construct has been examined by studies such as McCarthy and Wright (2004), Battarbee and Koskinen (2005), Hassenzahl et al (2010), Wright and McCarthy (2010) and Bargas-Avila and Hornbaek (2011).…”

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Mediation of product design and moderating effects of reference groups in the context of country-of-origin effect of a luxury Brand

Coudounaris

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the symbolic representations of non-users compared to the life experiences of users related to a luxury brand. In particular, the study examines whether product design mediates the relationship between antecedent factors of country-of-origin effect and product experience, and it also investigates the moderating effects of reference groups (non-users vs users) on the relationship between antecedent factors of country-of-origin effect and product design related to a luxury brand, namely, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class or E-Series. Design/methodology/approach A sample of convenience of 272 persons classified as non-users and users is investigated. An online questionnaire was used and 28 statements are included in the analysis based on a seven-point Likert scale. Findings The study reveals that the country-of-origin effect for the model of non-users and users has a very good fit with current data and is statistically significant. It also reveals that all relationships are significant except for price consciousness to product design and for brand familiarity to price consciousness. There is also partial mediation of product design between antecedent factors and product experience. Furthermore, the moderating effect of reference groups appears to play an important role, as it impacts the relationship between antecedent factors of the country-of-origin effect and product design/product experience. Originality/value This study indicates that the non-users’ group based on the hypothetical purchases of a luxury brand with a strong country image has a different country-of-origin effect to the users’ group of the same luxury brand. Moreover, the study concludes that there are statistically significant differences between the non-users’ group versus users’ group of a luxury brand (Mercedes-Benz), and these differences are concerned with the constructs of brand familiarity, brand commitment, product design and product experience. Finally, the study reveals that “price consciousness” is not relevant for luxury brands. Managerial implications, limitations of the study and future research directions are discussed.

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Beyond the Design Perspective of Gero’s FBS Framework

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Approaches to Automatically Extract Affordances from Patents

Approaches to Automatically Extract Affordances from Patents

Detecting Bad Design and Bias From Patents

Mediation of product design and moderating effects of reference groups in the context of country-of-origin effect of a luxury Brand

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