Smart Design: First International Conference Proceedings

137 Pages·2012·3.234 MB·English

by  James Woudhuysen, Peter Rivers (auth.), Philip Breedon (eds.)

Smart Design
Philip Breedon
Editor
Smart Design
First International Conference Proceedings
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Philip Breedon
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Programme Committee
Dr. Ric Allot, Director, Photonics and Plastic Electronics, KTN, UK
Professor Stephen Barrass, University of Canberra, Australia
Professor David Brown, NTU, UK
Dr. Luigina Ciolfi, Course Director, Digital Media DesignProgramme, Computer
Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland
ProfessorAnnCrannyFrancis,ProfessorofCulturalStudies&Director,
TransformingCulturesResearchCentre,UniversityofTechnology,Sydney,
Australia
ProfessorTilakDias,NTU,UK
Dr.KellyDobson,DepartmentHeadofDigital+Media,RhodeIslandSchoolof
Design,Providence,RhodeIsland,USA
Dr.MichaelHohl,UniversityofHuddersfield,UK
ProfessorJocelynFaubert,UniversitédeMontréalSchoolofOptometry,NSERC-
EssilorChaironPresbyopiaandVisualPerception,Canada
ProfessorSteveGoodhew,AssociateDeanofResearch,NTU,UK
ProfessorMoyezJiwa,ProfessorHealthInnovation,ChronicDiseaseCurtinHealth
InnovationResearchInstitute&ChairCurtinHealthInnovationResearch
Institute,WesternAustralia
ProfessorJimJohnston,ProfessorofChemistry,VictoriaUniversityofWellington,
NewZealand
Dr.SarahKettley,NTU,UK
Dr.AhmadLofti,NTU,UK
Dr.JohnMarshall,UniversityofMichigan,USA
Dr.MarkNorman,MerlinRoboticSystems,UK
Dr.JohanRedström,StudioDirector,InteractiveInstitute’sDesignResearchUnit.
Göteborg,Sweden
Dr.MarianaSalgado,User-DrivenInnovationCentre,LaureaUniversityofApplied
Sciences,Helsinki,Finland
Dr.HolgerSchnädelbach,MixedRealityLaboratory,NottinghamUniversity,UK
ProfessorBobStevens,RutherfordAppletonLaboratory,UK
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Dr.LouiseValentine,DuncanofJordanstoneCollegeofArt&Design,Dundee,UK
ClinicalProfessorMichaelVloeberghs,NottinghamUniversityHospital,UK
Dr.TomWaller,Aqualab,Speedo,UK
Dr.BrianWeeks—IPIEurope,UK
Dr.HazelWhite,ProgrammeDirector,MasterofDesign,DuncanofJordanstone
CollegeofArtandDesignUniversityofDundee,UK
ProfessorAlanWinfield,EPSRCSeniorMediaFellow,DirectorofScience
CommunicationUnit,UniversityoftheWestofEngland,Bristol,UK
Foreword
The introduction of new materials and rapidly changing technologies is assigned
huge and unprecedented importance in the economy of the twenty-first century.
Good product designs merge materials, technology and hardware into a unified
user experience, where the technology recedes into the background and people
benefit fromthe capabilitiesand experiences available.By focusing on functional
gain, critical awareness and emotive connection, even the most multifaceted and
complex technology can be made to feel straightforward and become an integral
part of daily life.
Designers and developers must understand how to progress and harness
knowledge to inform their innovations. They need to know how to explore the
opportunities in order to become design innovators and autonomous problem
solvers, combining their practical skills with an awareness of aesthetics, practical
applications and function.
Design students at Nottingham Trent University develop their Smart design
skills and knowledge based on a platform of considered research, and on an
interdisciplinary approach to learning. They gain the ability to look for require-
ments and opportunities and respond to them by developing a range of ideas and
designing innovative products and systems.
I hope this first International Conference on Smart Design will inspire and
motivateyou.Weaimtoprovideanopportunityforyoutocontributetoandgaina
broader understanding of design, materials and technology based research;
ultimately allowing you to develop concepts and ideas allied to the cohesion of
new and emerging technologies within your own designs.
Philip Breedon
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Acknowledgments
Thefirst InternationalConference onSmartDesign wouldnothave been possible
withoutthesupport,hardworkandendlesseffortsofalargenumberofindividuals.
A large number of individuals and support groups have been instrumental in
facilitating the conference and this publication, in particular, Professor Wayne
CrantonandDr.RobMorrisfromtheSchoolofScienceandTechnology;Melanie
Bentham-HillResearchandGraduateofficeandJoFrith,ManagementAccountant;
JoHall,MarketingManager,EdPearson,MarketingExecutiveandJamesLazenby
EventsManager,allatNottinghamTrentUniversity.
SpecialthanksfortheircontinualsupportgoestoAnnPriest,ProViceChancellor
andHeadofCollegeforArt,DesignandtheBuiltEnvironmentandPeterWestland,
DeanofArchitecture,DesignandBuiltEnvironment.
Sincere gratitude goes to our sponsor, PepsiCo Europe and our partner the
Australasian Medical Journal who supported our ideas and gave advice.
Special gratitude goes to Matthew Malpass for his invaluable advice, help and
supportincompilingthispublication,andtoDavidKingforallhiseffortsinrelation
to coordinating this publication and his help with many aspects of conference
organisation.
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Contents
1 Rethinking Packaging: How Electronic Packs for Pharmaceuticals
Work with Mobile IT to Improve Patient Adherence
to Medication Regimens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
James Woudhuysen and Peter Rivers
2 The Four Horsemen: The Evolution of Science and Society. . . . . 13
Michael Vloeberghs
3 Changing the Fabric of Society: An Exploration
of Smart Textiles in Product Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Jonathon Allen
4 Smart Housing: An Intelligent Environment
for Aging Independently. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Marilyn Bruin, Sauman Chu, Jodene Riha, Amanda Smoot
and G. Mauricio Mejia
5 Enhancing Visibility in Bicycling Apparel Using
Integrated Flashing LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Helen Koo and Lucy Dunne
6 Hydrophobic Smart Material for Water
Transport and Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Robert H. Morris, Shaun Atherton, Neil J. Shirtcliffe,
Glen McHale, Tilak Dias and Michael I. Newton
7 Intelligent Housing for People and Technology: Examining
Sustainable Housing Beyond the Technical and the
Opportunities for Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Phillipa Marsh
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8 Interrogating Hyperfunctionality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sarah Kettley
9 Semefulness: Touch, Design and Meaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anne Cranny-Francis
10 Conceptualisation of an Intelligent Salutogenic
Room Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Catherine Dalton and J. D. Harrison
11 Development and Thermographic Analysis
of Custom Seats for Wheelchairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Rafael Cavalli Prestes, Elisa Marangon Beretta, Fabio Pinto da Silva,
Wilson Kindlein Jr. and Vilson João Batista
12 Designing a Knit Methodology for Technical Textiles . . . . . . . . . 103
Martha Glazzard and Philip Breedon
13 Soft Products: Smart Fabrics in Product Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Polly Duplock
14 Autonomous Mobility Scooter as an Assistive Outdoor Tool
for the Elderly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anthony Ntaki, Ahmad Lotfi and Caroline Langensiepen
15 Emotional Design: Understanding Immaterial Values
for the Development of Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Maura Della Flora Flores and Liane Roldo
Chapter 1
Rethinking Packaging: How Electronic
Packs for Pharmaceuticals Work
with Mobile IT to Improve Patient
Adherence to Medication Regimens
James Woudhuysen and Peter Rivers
Abstract Indictmentsofwaste,anddistasteforthepackagingofconsumergoods,
are widespread in modern life. Yet in England, at least, households account for
less than a third of overall waste, and household waste—like the industrial and
commercial kinds—is actually in decline. In addition, the potentialities of pack-
aging as a force for progress are too often ignored. Electronic packaging could
improve the way users of prescriptiondrugs take their medicines. With an ageing
population taking more and more varied kinds of drugs, patient adherence to
medicationregimensisagrowingsocialandeconomicissue.LinkedtomobileIT,
electronic packaging can, in principle, do much to ensure that medical patients
winduptakingtherightdrugsattherighttimes.Thepaperreviewsfourexamples
ofelectronicpackaging,andgoesontosituatetheminthecontextofmobilehealth
(mHealth)—mobile telephony applications that prompt patients, each time they
take medicine, to report their symptoms very simply and, if necessary, receive
advicebackfromdoctors.Together,reportingadherenceandsymptomscanenable
prescribers to build up a rich picture of the effectiveness of each prescription
issued. Doses ormedicationcan bechanged, ormedication withdrawn, using real
intelligence about patients. The dual approach outlined here can also reduce the
problems that arise with the use of multiple medications by a patient. Innovation
in the way in which prescription drugs are packaged could do a lot for society.
Thispaperexploresthepotentialoflinkingtheelectronicpackagingofmedicines
to mobile IT, as well as the attitudinal and likely regulatory barriers that could
impede progress in this domain.
J.Woudhuysen(&)(cid:2)P.Rivers
DeMontfortUniversity,Leicester,UK
e-mail:[email protected]
P.Rivers
e-mail:[email protected]
P.Breedon(ed.),SmartDesign, 1
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4471-2975-2_1,(cid:2)Springer-VerlagLondon2012