presentation of the id research groups department of industrial design loe feijs

TU/e faculty of industrial design

Presentation of the ID Research Groups

Department of Industrial Design

Loe Feijs

Visit Poly. Univ. Hong Kong

April 22, 2004


Industrial Design – established in 2000

“Creating intelligent products and services”

• Strategic partners– Design Academy Eindhoven

– Philips Design

• Educational innovation– competencies needed by the professional field– learning and working closer together– new staff roles – away from traditional teacher


Research: motivation and principles

– Why research?• as a window to the international research community• as a source of knowledge to feed the education program

– How? • Scientific• Constructive• Multidisciplinary

• Based on respect for man – adapting the product to the user, not the other way around– not putting an unnecessary cognitive and emotional load on the user


Intelligent products and services

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design

– Technology trends


Changes to the nature of the profession

design f or mass-manu-f acturing

design off ormless f unctions

media-tiondesign

design of complex behaviour

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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

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design f or mass-manu-f acturing

design off ormless f unctions

media-tiondesign

design of complex behaviour

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craf

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tele

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Paradigms

– Research paradigms• Modeling and formalization of the mind (psychology)• Modeling and formalization of the artifacts (engineering)• Research through design


Paradigms

– What about truth? • Theory-experiment-falsification

– first proposed by Popper– typical for physics and psychology

• Specification-implementation-verification– both at product-level and at tool-level– typical for engineering (mechanical, electrical, software)


science,technologyscience,

technology

design

evaluation

problem analysis

engineeringuseruser

human needs,market opportunities, environmental concerns

skills,creativity,serendipity

new knowledge

What about doing?


Present research groups

– UCE group (User Centered Engineering)

– DI group (Designed Intelligence)

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User Centered Engineering (UCE)

– Existing group• History in application-oriented perception and cognition

– Topics:• User-centered design,

– also for non-traditional user groups

• Multi-modal interaction styles and tele-presence• Methodology and evaluation• Speech, dialogue and image processing


User-Centered Engineering (UCE)

Designing interactive systems:Concepts for natural interaction

Multimodal

interaction

Multimodal

interaction

Aware

systems

Aware

systems

Aware

environments

Aware

environments

perceptive

capacities

connectivity

Approach: bringing together

technology and insights from

(cognitive and social) psychology in the

design process


Designed Intelligence

– New group• Some: background in engineering• Some: background in Industrial Design

– Topics:• Rich Interaction• Emotions• Flow• Ambient culture


Designed Intelligence research questions

– how can we create new forms of interactions that are more

enjoyable than traditional user-interfaces?

– how can we design useful and meaningful forms of artificial

emotional intelligence?

– how can we design useful and meaningful forms of intelligent

systems which help in generating and managing flow experiences?

– how can we design systems of connected devices that are active in

a shared space such that the devices are aware of the users and of

other devices in a meaningful and helpful way?


Emotion-sensitive alarm clock


eMuu, an emotionally expressive character


Flow: Pacman game support robots


Breaking the flow


Rich interaction


Q4 unplugged by Philips


human business

technology

‘design’

electrosoft-ware

mechanical

virtual

physical

DI

UCE? ?

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Possible future organization

– UCE group (User Centered Engineering)

– DI group (Designed Intelligence)– DTS (Design Theory and Strategy)– DW (Design for the World)

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UCE

TM

TU/e

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DI DTS DW


Research School: JFS

• Communication, Choice and Control (the human strategy)

• Virtual and Augmented Environments (the human experience)

• User Interface Engineering & Design Methodology (the human interface)


International Conferences

• ICEC (Rauterberg): 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing Sept. 1-3 (2004)

• EUSAI (Eggen, Markopoulos): 2nd European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, Nov. 8-10 (2004)

• DPPI (Overbeeke): Designing Pleasurable

Products and Interfaces (2005)

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