Effects of Product Usage Context on Consumer Product Preferences

Green, Matthew G.; Tan, Jun Jay; Linsey, Julie; Seepersad, Carolyn Conner; Wood, Kristin L.

doi:10.1115/detc2005-85438

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“…More importantly, this study helps developers decide whether the product's technical function or the user, through his/her tasks, should carry out active roles. Work in this area includes methods to describe users' needs, their use-processes [15] and the context-of-use [16].…”

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Affordances in Product Architecture: Linking Technical Functions and Users’ Tasks

Galvao

Sato

2005

Volume 5a: 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology

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Developing usable and desirable products requires an understanding of how users build close relationships with objects and how these relationships can be controlled by developers. This paper discusses the importance of the concept of affordances as an instrument useful for understanding the relationships between technical functions and user tasks. The approach introduces a Function-Task Design Matrix to link technical functions with user tasks and to capture relevant affordance-level requirements throughout the product architecture generation. Functional and Operational Affordance levels are introduced to help determine the product attributes necessary to optimize the ease with which users can undertake technical functions. The paper uses functional language, focusing attention towards the use of the product, rather then merely its workings. The tools for describing affordances are described first, followed by a step-by-step description of how they can be used to improve decisions during product architecture generation. The mechanism is illustrated in a case study on a kitchen appliance.

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Section: User and Task Analysismentioning

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Affordances in Product Architecture: Linking Technical Functions and Users’ Tasks

Galvao

Sato

2005

Volume 5a: 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology

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“…The recent scholarship has started modelling user habits. Green et al (2005) emphasized the importance of understanding and representing usage contexts for simulating a product's design performances. Yannou et al (2009) and He et al (2012) showed how to identify a series of key variables for featuring usage scenarios that influence performance and utility.…”

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Research perspectives in ecodesign

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Ecodesign has gained significant traction in recent years ranging from academic research to business applications at a global scale. Initial emphasis on the environmental aspect of design has evolved to include economic and social aspects, with projects ranging from small-scale products to large-scale industrial systems. In this paper, the authors re-analyse 10 of their major ecodesign research projects of the past ten years to identify five categories of challenges and promising future directions for ecodesign research. This paper is primarily a retrospective position paper based on the authors’ experience of actual design studies, providing also a relevant literature review and summary of design practices.

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“…The concept of usage context in design engineering has been first introduced in the works of Green et al (2004Green et al ( , 2005Green et al ( , 2006 and Yannou et al (2009). Green et al have published three successive papers on the subject, with the goal of forming a comprehensive product design methodology that includes contextual factors.…”

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Set-based design by simulation of usage scenario coverage

Yannou

Yvars

Hoyle

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Journal of Engineering Design

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While the marketing literature has advocated for decades that new products should be designed for intended and anticipated consumer usages, the engineering literature mostly proposes optimization of product performances independent of specific users' skills, anticipated usage scenarios, and competing products on the market. In contrast to tedious market studies which assume an existing market experience for products and optimization approaches based upon static product performances, we propose an adaptable approach to designing a product or product family: the set-based design by usage coverage simulation. It starts with generating a usage scenario space for a set of representative users. Next, considering a candidate set of products, one proceeds to the CSP computations of feasible usage scenarios, assuming that physics-based models of performances are available. The comparison between the expected and feasible usage scenarios at the scale of a single user leads to Usage Coverage Indicators and finally to a preferred product which best covers the usage scenario space. At the level of a targeted consumer group, the approach provides a market share simulation for competing products or members of a scale-based product family. The design of a family of jigsaws thoroughly illustrates our approach.

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Effects of Product Usage Context on Consumer Product Preferences

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

Affordances in Product Architecture: Linking Technical Functions and Users’ Tasks

Affordances in Product Architecture: Linking Technical Functions and Users’ Tasks

Research perspectives in ecodesign

Set-based design by simulation of usage scenario coverage

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