Adapting ADA Architectural Design Knowledge for Universal Product Design Using Association Rule Mining: A Function Based Approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shraddha Sangelkar ◽  
Daniel A. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Design Guideline ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Design Information ◽  
Product Function

This paper focuses on creating guidelines for the design of products for persons with disabilities that are applicable during early stages of design. The research uses the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) to formally describe user activity, the Functional Basis to describe product function, and the actionfunction diagram as a framework to create a detailed understanding of the interaction between a user and a product. The main objective of this paper is to explore the transferability of the knowledge contained in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to universal product design. The design information contained in the ADA guidelines is abstracted using a function based approach; association rules are mined from this design information. The association rules obtained are statistically significant guidelines for universal design (UD). The existing examples of universal design are compared to their typical version to observe the design elements that improve the accessibility of a product. Association rules are also mined from the existing examples of universal design using the same methodology. Further, the applicability of ADA guidelines to universal product design is investigated based on the commonality between the association rules obtained from both the datasets. The results show that rules can be translated to a product having a degree of similarity based on the size and space relationship between the user and product without direct translation from an ADA based design guideline to a product design guideline.

Adapting ADA Architectural Design Knowledge to Product Design: Groundwork for a Function Based Approach

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shraddha Sangelkar ◽  
Daniel A. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Body Position ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Design Change ◽  
User Activity ◽  
And Function

One in every seven Americans has some form of disability. The number of people with disabilities is expected to increase, perhaps significantly, over the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, persons with a disability remain underserved by consumer products. Product designers fail to design universal products primarily due to a lack of knowledge, tools, and experience with universal design. Though challenges to complete access remain, the design of universal architectural systems reflects a better codification of methods, guidelines, and knowledge than available to universal product design. This article reports research efforts to transfer elements of the design knowledge and tools from universal architectural design to universal product design. The research uses the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health to formally describe user function, the Functional Basis to describe product function, and actionfunction diagrams as an analytical framework to explore the interaction between user activity, limitation, and product realization. The comparison of the universal and typical architectural systems reveal relevant design differences in specific parametric realization, morphology, and function. Of these differences, parametric was the most common with functional the least common. The user activities that most frequently result in a design change are reaching followed by maintaining body position. The comparison of architectural systems to consumer products noted a common trend of a functional design change made in result to the user activity of transferring oneself.

Affective Product Design Based on Random Forest and Association Rules

2013 ◽  
Vol 457-458 ◽  
pp. 1407-1410
Author(s):  
Jian Shi ◽  
Shu You Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Design Element ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Random Forest Regression ◽  
Affective Design ◽  
Design Elements

Affective design, which aims to design favorable products that meet the customers affective needs and address customers affective satisfaction, has gain increasing attention in modern industries. This paper proposed an affective design approach combing random forest regression and association rule mining, where random forest is adopted to reduce the dimension of design elements and association rules is used to map the affective need to design element. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated by an application of elevator design.

Shared Responsibilities for Full Participation in Society: Planning Further Integration of the ICF Into AAC

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Blake Huer ◽  
Travis T. Threats
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Community Support ◽  
World Health ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Full Participation

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) 2001 International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) has as one of its central tenets the full inclusion of persons with disabilities in society. It acknowledges the need for medical and rehabilitation intervention in its biopscychosocial framework. However, the WHO realizes that society must do its part to facilitate this full participation and empowerment. Persons with complex communication needs (PWCCN) often need augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in order to express themselves. However, in order to access and successfully use AAC, PWCCN need access to the necessary AAC devices and services, as well as a willing society to interact with them as full contributing members of society. The factors outside of a person's specific physical and/or cognitive functional limitations are addressed in the ICF via the Personal and Environmental Factors. Personal Factors include the individual's personality traits, lifestyle, experiences, social/educational/professional background, race, gender, and age. Environmental Factors include community support systems, social service agencies, governments, social networks, and those persons that interact with the PWCCN. This article addresses the sociopolitical influences on PWCCN and their functioning from a human rights perspective. The necessary introspective role of speech-language pathologists in this process is explored.

scholarly journals A Review of Green School Design Guidelines

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayahtuljamilah Ramli ◽  
Mawar Masri ◽  
Mohd. Zafrullah Mohd. Taib ◽  
Norhazarina Abd Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
School Design ◽  
Design Guideline ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Green School

The purpose of this paper is to execute a comparative study of green school guidelines with the review of the current literature. The method of this study is to use secondary data regarding green school design elements in foreign countries’ school. The data assembled from various countries will be discussed with regards to the applications of its elements into Malaysian green school design. The result of the comparative study will be used to identify the design elements of Malaysian school designs towards a green and sustainable building. Therefore, finding from this research is expected to encourage the Malaysian government to develop and create a guideline for green school design in Malaysia. Keywords: School Environment; Green Design Components; Green School Design Guideline; Students’ Outcome eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v3i8.272   

scholarly journals MEDICAL-SOCIAL REHABILITATION AS THE BASIS OF OVERCOMING THE LIMITATIONS OF LIVING ACTIVITIES OF CITIZENS WITH DISTURBANCES OF HEALTH AND THEIR SOCIALIZATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
S N Puzin ◽  
A V Grechko ◽  
I V Pryanikov ◽  
M A Shurgaya ◽  
G E Pogosyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Circulatory System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
The Body ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Malignant Neoplasms ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Social Rehabilitation

Modern approaches to protecting public health in the world are increasingly guided by the concept of preventable loss of health, which provides for the concentration of health efforts on the prevention of morbidity and disability. The nosological spectrum of causes of disability includes a large list of diseases, among which the leading ones are chronic non-communicable diseases, which are characterized by an epidemic type of spread. The highest level of disability is observed in connection with diseases of the circulatory system, malignant neoplasms, diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. Of the total number of citizens recognized as disabled, a significant number are disabled people of the first and second groups. The significance of the disability problem is aggravated by the special demographic situation of the "aging" of the population, which is associated with the accumulation of pathology of various major body systems. Persistent dysfunctions of the body due to diseases, consequences of injuries and defects can lead to disabilities. The development of the UN international legal framework (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, "International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health") contributed to the formation of social policy in Russia aimed at protecting the rights of persons with disabilities. Medical and social rehabilitation and habilitation of persons with disabilities is the basis of social protection of citizens with health problems. The implementation of the main directions of medical and social rehabilitation and habilitation of persons with disabilities (medical, professional social) involves the use by persons with disabilities of technical means of rehabilitation that can compensate for impaired or lost functions of the body, which helps to overcome the limitations of life and socialization of citizens with persistent health problems.

scholarly journals Assistive Technologies and Environmental Design Concepts for Blended Learning and Teaching for Disabilities within 3D Virtual Worlds and Learning Environments

2012 ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Noha Saleeb ◽  
Georgios A. Dafoulas
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
E Learning

3D Virtual Learning Environments (3D VLEs) are increasingly becoming prominent supporters of blended learning for all kinds of students including adult learners with or without disabilities. Due to the evidenced effect of architectural design of physical learning spaces on students’ learning and current lack of design codes for creating 3D virtual buildings, this case study aims at evaluating the suitability of the architectural design elements of existing educational facilities and learning spaces within 3D VLEs specifically for delivering blended e-learning for adult students with disabilities. This comprises capturing student contentment and satisfaction levels from different design elements of the 3D virtual spaces in an attempt to issue recommendations for the development of 3D educational facilities and hence initiate a framework for architectural design of 3D virtual spaces to augment accessibility, appeal and engagement for enhancing the e-learning experience of under-graduate, post-graduate and independent-study adult learners with disabilities within these virtual worlds.

Application Research of Design Ethics in the Product Design

2012 ◽  
Vol 271-272 ◽  
pp. 787-790
Author(s):  
Rong Biao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Application Research ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Design Ethics ◽  
The People ◽  
Product Function ◽  
Computer Aided

Through the analysis of design ethics principle and content, the design concept of humanism, sustainable development and harmonious are applied to the Touch mouse product design practice, and analyzed the its positive significance in market research, product design positioning, concept sketches design, computer aided industrial design and shell structure design, effectively avoid the appear of various product function, complex modelling, large energy consumption and pollution mode, so as to design a fashion practical and green environmental protection Touch type new mouse, and provide a high quality IT products for consumers. Finally, the goal of balance and harmony between the people, resources and environment is realized.

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