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Showing 1 to 20 of 180 for “"user needs"”.
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Students' approach to user needs analysis
… exist to help engineers and designers determine user needs as part of the user-oriented design process. Many of these methods are taught in engineering design classes throughout the country. By following the progress of 18 groups of student teams in a product design project-based class at MIT, it …
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Best practices in user needs/requirements generation
… for system development in the front-end needs significant changes.
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Evolving User Needs Identification through AI Augmented Approaches
… to the product design cycle, conducting a user needs analysis is critical to the long-term success of the project. Designers routinely are tasked with engaging in stakeholder studies in an effort to identify their needs that then drive the design. Sometimes users are aware of their needs, …
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Simplifying tea steeping : design innovation driven by user needs
… leaf tea easy and less labor intensive for the user. A survey of 235 people, primarily millennials between the ages of 18-27, was conducted to determine key user needs to be addressed in the design of the tea steeping device. Primary concerns identified were cleanability, time it takes to brew, …
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An Assisted Living Private Dwelling Unit Based on User Needs
The United States is experiencing a rapid rise in its citizens aged 85 and older, which is the fastest growing segment of the population. By the year 2050 the population of adults 65 years old and older is predicted to double in size. This trend, referred to as the graying of America, has been a …
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Lost in translation : challenges in mapping user needs to engineering requirements
… the challenges involved in translating consumer needs to engineering specifications. The mismatch between the results of engineering tests of a dishwasher and the results of consumer satisfaction surveys reveals many improvement opportunities to the product development process. The case study …
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Ontology Aware Software Service Agents: Meeting Ordinary User Needs on the Semantic Web
… semantic web, it must be possible for ordinary users to invoke services. It is clear that users need simple-to-invoke-and-use services. This dissertation offers an ontological approach to declaratively create services that users can invoke using free-form, natural-language-like specifications. …
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Computer-aided design tools for superminds: Understanding user needs and evaluating design options
… The first is to identify the best initial user segment and user needs for “computer-aided design tools” to help users apply the supermind design methodology. The second is to design the feature set, user interface and ongoing user analytics for a software tool powered by the GPT-3 deep …
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Home-based stroke rehabilitation robotics for the upper limb: User needs, design, and control
… could address this need, but more research needs to be done to ensure that they can safely and effectively meet stroke survivors’ needs in the home environment. In this work, the design of at-home upper limb rehabilitation robots is investigated. A scoping review of publications describing …
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A system design for a courthouse building in Boston : implementing user needs and requirements
… building organizational issues pertaining to user needs and requirements will both shape the preliminary overall building configuration. Once that configuration is established, I will focus on a specific portion of the overall building to develop a preliminary courthouse building system. I …
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Making Makerspaces more accessible for people with visual impairment: Understanding user needs to reimagine solutions.
… workshop. This allowed me to understand the real needs, desires and frustrations of this group at a more intricate level and hence let me collaborate with them on ways to achieve the goal of making makerspaces within the MIT ecosystem more accessible as a first step through a guided workshop at …
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A holistic psychometric analysis of the individual recovery outcomes counter : balancing user needs in the use of personal outcome measures
… to other measures of recovery, and feedback from users is positive. Areas for further development of I.ROC are identified; future research should investigate potential improvements to scoring and question wording. I.ROC demonstrates the potential for measures of recovery to be used to both measure …
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Case study of the competitive behavior of companies in response to disruptive technologies in the dynamic environment of changing user needs
Innovations are part of everyday reality in the business life of many companies. While for startups, success in business largely depends on success of innovations as they are trying to enter the market, for large monopolistic companies the influx of innovations is a crucial part of strategic …
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A Web-based user-oriented tool for universal kitchen design
… number of survivors of disability, diversified user needs require professional housing design to accommodate all different individuals, which challenges current design standards. Based on universal design principles, a user-oriented tool for universal home design provides more than a few …
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Usable Accessibility and Haptic User Interface Design Approach
… and industry). However, a great number of users are dissatisfied with their assistive technology applications. Unfortunately, such dissatisfaction is likely to cause abandonment of the technology devices. In particular, recent research shows that the adoption rate of haptic technology is …
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An effective approach to choosing project, program and portfolio management software at a large and geographically diverse company
… developing a business case focused on end user needs for the new software, including the detailed data analysis techniques used to evaluate the end user needs. It also describes certain aspects of the deployment of the software once chosen. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance …
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Capabilities Engineering:Promoting Change-Reduction and Constructing Change-Tolerant Systems
… to change when subjected to the vagaries of user needs, technology advances, market demands and other change inducing factors. Despite the inevitability of change, traditional Requirements Engineering strives to develop systems based on a fixed solution. This is a mostly unsuccessful approach …
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An Hedonomic Evaluation Of Pleasurable Human-technology Experience: The Effect Of Exposure And Aesthetics On The Experience Of Flow
… of flow, the mode of interaction, and the needs of the user. Simulations and video games were used to investigate how repeated exposure affects flow, interaction mode, and the user needs. The Kansei Engineering method was used to measure user needs and investigate the effect of different …
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Framework for Improving Access to Medical Libraries using Mobile Technologies
… provide medical related - information to the users. Despite the considerable number of these resources, physicians and medical information seekers still have problems finding relevant information due to the huge number of results returned by these methods. However, a number of attempts carried …
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Rapid and flexible product development : an analysis of software projects at Hewlett Packard an Agilent
… the company came across new information or the user needs changed then these changes would be incorporated into the next version of the product otherwise risk shipping the product late. Rapid innovation in the technological areas and the Internet has created very dynamic environment in all walks …
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