Abstract
All the stakeholders in product life cycle needs to work together to achieve best possible sustainable solution. User perspectives need to be considered in design, for products to be sustainable in use. Literature review and empirical studies helped in identifying requirements to include user perspectives in design. An activity model is developed after thoroughly studying the usage of electric kettle. In this paper we propose a computer aided conceptual platform to visualize and interact with the product in virtual environment by the user for performing basic activities in use of that product. The platform also supports designer to create product and its usage scenarios based on requirements’ from users. It also captures and stores the data generated while user performs the activities virtually for assessment. This is achieved with the help of 3D stereo display, motion capture devices and visualization tool kits. A questionnaire is planned to obtain designer and user feedback on the platform to evaluate the support.
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This work is supported by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, The French National Research Agency) funding (project number: 1081C0212/ANR-10-ECOT-006-01).
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Kota, S., Brissaud, D., Zwolinski, P. (2013). A Conceptual Platform to View Environmental Performance of a Product and Its Usage in Co-Design. In: Chakrabarti, A., Prakash, R. (eds) ICoRD'13. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_45
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