Since usability is a property of the interaction between a product, a user and the task that he or she is trying to complete [6], a product’s usability can vary when it is used in varying use situations. We define this as dynamic usability. This study is aimed at exploring how practitioners currently deal with dynamic usability. From a retrospective case study research of three design projects ...

Novel design creations often exist in the form of patents. It is well acknowledged that patents are a great source inspiration, therefore designers encouraged to engage early process. Studies patent analysis have been carried out benefit engineering activities such as classification, technology forecasting, idea generation and emerging design-prior art comparison. However, intent behind inventi...

There have been reports and claims in the psychotherapeutic literature that the consideration of recent dreams can result in personal realizations and insight. There is theoretical support for these claims from work on rapid eye movement (REM) sleep having a function of the consolidation of emotional memories and the creative formation of connections between new and older memories. To investiga...

Behavioral and neuroimaging findings indicate that distinct cognitive and neural processes underlie solving problems with sudden insight. Moreover, people with less focused attention sometimes perform better on tests of insight and creative problem solving. However, it remains unclear whether different states of attention, within individuals, influence the likelihood of solving problems with in...

This paper aims to test whether the use of contraries can facilitate spatial problem solving. Specifically, we examined whether a training session which included explicit guidance on thinking in contraries would improve problem solving abilities. In our study, the participants in the experimental condition were exposed to a brief training session before being presented with seven visuo-spatial ...

BACKGROUND Awareness of illness (insight) has been found to have contradictory effects for different functional outcomes after the early course of psychosis. Whereas it is related to psychotic symptom reduction and medication adherence, it is also associated with increased depressive symptoms. In this line, the specific effects of insight on the evolution of functioning over time have not been ...

This paper explores the role of empathy within new product development from the perspective of human-centred design. The authors have developed a range of empathic design tools and strategies that help to identify authentic human needs.For products and services to be effective, they need to satisfy both functional and emotional needs of individuals. In addition, the individual user needs to fee...

This paper presents a method for crashworthiness design of vehicle structures based on analyses of crash mode (CM), a sequence of axial crushing, twisting, and transversal bending during a crash event. The method emulates a process commonly called “mode matching” by vehicle designers, where the crash performance of a structure is improved by manually modifying the design until its CM matches th...

Abstract This study used several informatics techniques to analyze consumer-driven social media data from four cities (Paris, Milan, New York, and London) during the 2019 Fall/Winter (F/W) Fashion Week. Analyzing keywords using a semantic network analysis method revealed main characteristics of collections, celebrities, influencers, fashion items, brands, designers connected with weeks. Using t...

Awareness of illness in psychotic disorders is associated with better clinical outcomes, but also poorer psychological well-being. This is known as "The Insight Paradox". Understanding of the paradox has focused on the role of self-stigma. This study examines possible future self as a mediator in the relationship between insight and depression in 102 individuals in an early intervention program...