Testing Virtual Use With Scenarios

van der Vegte, W.

ISBN 10: 9065620974 / ISBN 13: 9789065620972

Published by Vssd, 2009

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Synopsis:

To enhance the effectiveness of engineering simulations in product development, this PhD thesis presents a new approach that enables designers to include human responses and reactions to artefact behaviour in their investigations. It does so without requiring deployment of real human subjects or investments in interactive virtual environments. The new method introduces scenario bundles, which designers specify as logical instructions that represent their conjectures of how human users react on possible artefact behaviours. During computer simulation, a scenario bundle controls a virtual model of the human user. This control causes intermediate changes in parameters and thus alters the course of the simulated process. The designer can specify responses in a scenario bundles as conditiondependent, so that different concatenated simulations emerge when variations are applied to the product design, to characteristics of human users, and to the surroundings of use. This makes it possible to explore variations of use processes through simulation. The thesis presents the concept and the fundamentals of the method, as well as the development of a proof-of concept implementation of a design support tool, which has been successfully tested sample products.

About the Author: Wilfred van der Vegte (1963) received a master's degree (equivalent) in mechanical engineering from Twente University in 1989. Subsequently he enrolled in the postgraduate course programme on design of consumer durables at Delft University of Technology, where he obtained his Master of Technological Design early 1992. As his final project he developed a working prototype of a graphics display for the blind at TNO Product Centre (later merged into the Institute of Industrial technology) in Delft, where he continued his career as an industrial designer and project manager until 1998. In his TNO years, he worked on a wide range of product development projects (varying from furniture to high-volume components for domestic appliances) and consultancy assignments in the field of design for X and value engineering. In 1998 he returned to the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology to become Assistant Professor in the Section of Computer-Aided Design Engineering, where he started doing research, and became engaged in teaching. Since then, the research work gradually developed towards the topic presented this thesis. His teaching activities include fundamental engineering topics, knowledge management in advanced design support, and coaching students' design projects and graduation projects.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Testing Virtual Use With Scenarios
Publisher: Vssd
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good