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Design of Multifunctional Artefacts as Perceived by Potential Users: Findings from a Preliminary Investigation

Singh, V and Srinivasan, V (2021) Design of Multifunctional Artefacts as Perceived by Potential Users: Findings from a Preliminary Investigation. In: 8th International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD 2021, 7-10 Jan 2021, pp. 483-495.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0119-4_39

Abstract

Multifunctional designs such as the Swiss army knife, sofa-cum-bed and smartphones are commonplace, but there is limited research to assist designers in determining what factors to consider while designing such products. Therefore, findings from a survey-based empirical study that seeks to understand how potential users perceive the desirability of multifunctional products in which the functions of two or more existing products are combined into one product, are presented. The findings from this study can be used by designers to build better multifunctional designs. The empirical study builds on related theoretical work on sharing in designs, especially structure sharing and resource effectiveness, where factors identified from previous work such as relative importance (RI) of the different functions performed by the product, the quality of functions (QoF) and the emergent negative functions (NF) in the multifunctional product, are found to be relevant. The results and insights from the responses to the survey are presented, and the implications for opportunities for further research are discussed. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Publication: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing
Date Deposited: 05 Aug 2021 12:13
Last Modified: 05 Aug 2021 12:13
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/69070

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