TU/e faculty of industrial design Presentation of the ID Research Groups Department of Industrial Design Loe Feijs Visit Poly. Univ. Hong Kong April 22, 2004

TU/e faculty of industrial design Industrial Design – established in 2000 “Creating intelligent products and services” Strategic partners –Design Academy Eindhoven –Philips Design Educational innovation –competencies needed by the professional field –learning and working closer together –new staff roles – away from traditional teacher

TU/e faculty of industrial design Research: motivation and principles –Why research? as a window to the international research community as a source of knowledge to feed the education program –How? Scientific Constructive Multidisciplinary Based on respect for man –adapting the product to the user, not the other way around –not putting an unnecessary cognitive and emotional load on the user

TU/e faculty of industrial design Intelligent products and services –Technology trends

TU/e faculty of industrial design Changes to the nature of the profession

TU/e faculty of industrial design Paradigms –Research paradigms Modeling and formalization of the mind (psychology) Modeling and formalization of the artifacts (engineering) Research through design

TU/e faculty of industrial design Paradigms –What about truth? Theory-experiment-falsification –first proposed by Popper –typical for physics and psychology Specification-implementation-verification –both at product-level and at tool-level –typical for engineering (mechanical, electrical, software)

TU/e faculty of industrial design science, technology science, technology design evaluation problem analysis engineering user human needs, market opportunities, environmental concerns skills, creativity, serendipity new knowledge What about doing?

TU/e faculty of industrial design Present research groups –UCE group ( User Centered Engineering) –DI group (Designed Intelligence) ID UCE TM TU/e... DI

TU/e faculty of industrial design User Centered Engineering (UCE) –Existing group History in application-oriented perception and cognition –Topics: User-centered design, –also for non-traditional user groups Multi-modal interaction styles and tele-presence Methodology and evaluation Speech, dialogue and image processing

TU/e faculty of industrial design User-Centered Engineering (UCE) Designing interactive systems: Concepts for natural interaction Multimodal interaction Multimodal interaction Aware systems Aware systems Aware environments Aware environments perceptive capacities connectivity Approach: bringing together technology and insights from (cognitive and social) psychology in the design process

TU/e faculty of industrial design Designed Intelligence –New group Some: background in engineering Some: background in Industrial Design –Topics: Rich Interaction Emotions Flow Ambient culture

TU/e faculty of industrial design Designed Intelligence research questions –how can we create new forms of interactions that are more enjoyable than traditional user-interfaces? –how can we design useful and meaningful forms of artificial emotional intelligence? –how can we design useful and meaningful forms of intelligent systems which help in generating and managing flow experiences? –how can we design systems of connected devices that are active in a shared space such that the devices are aware of the users and of other devices in a meaningful and helpful way?

TU/e faculty of industrial design Emotion-sensitive alarm clock

TU/e faculty of industrial design eMuu, an emotionally expressive character

TU/e faculty of industrial design Flow: Pacman game support robots

TU/e faculty of industrial design Breaking the flow

TU/e faculty of industrial design Rich interaction

TU/e faculty of industrial design Rich interaction

TU/e faculty of industrial design Q4 unplugged by Philips

TU/e faculty of industrial design human business technology ‘design’ electro soft- ware mecha- nical virtual physical DI UCE ?? ?

TU/e faculty of industrial design Possible future organization –UCE group ( User Centered Engineering) –DI group (Designed Intelligence) –DTS (Design Theory and Strategy) –DW (Design for the World) ID UCE TM TU/e... DI DTS DW

TU/e faculty of industrial design Research School: JFS Communication, Choice and Control (the human strategy) Virtual and Augmented Environments (the human experience) User Interface Engineering & Design Methodology (the human interface)

TU/e faculty of industrial design International Conferences ICEC (Rauterberg): 3 rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing Sept. 1-3 (2004) EUSAI (Eggen, Markopoulos): 2 nd European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, Nov (2004) DPPI (Overbeeke): Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (2005)

TU/e faculty of industrial design