Roadmap to consider physiological and psychological aspects of user-product interactions in virtual product engineering
Year: 2019
Editor: Wartzack, Sandro; Schleich, Benjamin; Gon
Author: Wartzack, Sandro; Schr
Series: ICED
Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universit
Section: User-centred design
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.406
ISSN: 2220-4342
Abstract
To successfully facilitate user-centred design, a multitude of different aspects has to be considered, from purely physiological to psychological-emotional factors. The overall aim is to increase the customer satisfaction by enhancing the fit between products and their users in the respective context of use. Further virtualisation of user-centred design processes holds the potential to convey the concepts of frontloading and predictive engineering from classical product engineering. Our vision is to facilitate a comprehensive consideration of user-product interactions in virtual product engineering operationalised by the mission to develop methods and tools to assess and design user-product interactions according to physiological and psychological aspects. A variety of work has already been done to model musculoskeletal user groups, to configure, predict, simulate and optimise physical user-product interactions, to integrate such models into CAD or to map individual subjective values to product design. Nevertheless, there are still research areas to be addressed to enable a comprehensive implementation of the mentioned approach. These are discussed in the present contribution.
Keywords: User centred design, Simulation, Integrated product development, Affective Engineering, Biomechanical digital human models