Abstract
Prototyping is a crucial aspect of the product design and development process. Successful development and deployment of products hinge on building correct prototypes. However, current prototyping frameworks often do not provide specific prototyping guidelines that are practical and readily applicable and do not consider Human Factors Engineering (HFE) design guidelines thoroughly. This paper presents a novel prototyping framework that integrates prototyping and HFE guidelines to address the research gap in the prototyping literature. The prototyping framework presents a database in the form of a graphical user interface (GUI), which contains userform data entry. The GUI userform helps the designer to develop prototyping strategies based on the prototyping best practices and HFE principles. Further, the GUI userform suggests tools and technologies that can be used to fabricate the prototype. Thus, the framework helps designers plan prototyping activities and reduces the reliance on intuition when fabricating prototypes. This paper also presents a preliminary validation study that focuses on exploring whether there is a statistical difference between the intervention and control group in developing prototyping strategies for various prototyping problems. The intervention and control group are tested using twelve prototyping problems, and the Prototyping Success score is measured for each group. An independent sample t-test is performed. From the statistical analysis, it can be inferred that the participants who use the prototyping framework produce mean Prototyping Success scores that are higher than that of the control group.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Ahmed, S., Demirel, H.O.: House of prototyping guidelines: a framework to develop theoretical prototyping strategies for human-centered design. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E. (eds.) HCII 2020. LNCS, vol. 12200, pp. 21–38. Springer, Cham (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49713-2_2
Ahmed, S., Demirel, H.O.: A pre-prototyping framework to explore human-centered prototyping strategies during early design. In: ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection (2020)
Camburn, B., et al.: A systematic method for design prototyping. J. Mech. Des. 137(8) (2015). 12 pages
Christie, E.J., et al.: Prototyping strategies: literature review and identification of critical variables. In: American Society for Engineering Education Conference (2012)
Deininger, M., Daly, S.R., Sienko, K.H., Lee, J.C.: Novice designers’ use of prototypes in engineering design. Des. Stud. 51, 25–65 (2017)
Duffy, V.G.: Modified virtual build methodology for computer-aided ergonomics and safety. Hum. Factors Ergon. Manuf. Serv. Ind. 17(5), 413–422 (2007)
Gawron, V.J., Drury, C.G., Fairbanks, R.J., Berger, R.C.: Medical error and human factors engineering: where are we now? Am. J. Med. Qual. 21(1), 57–67 (2006)
Hauser, J.R., Clausing, D., et al.: The house of quality. Harvard Bus. Rev. 66, 63–73 (1988)
Hess, T., Summers, J.D.: Case study: evidence of prototyping roles in conceptual design. In: DS 75–1: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED13), Design for Harmonies, vol. 1: Design Processes, Seoul, Korea, 19–22 August 2013 (2013)
Kantowitz, B.H., Sorkin, R.D.: Human Factors: Understanding People-system Relationships. Wiley, Hoboken (1983)
Kirwan, B., Ainsworth, L.K.: A Guide to Task Analysis: The Task Analysis Working Group. CRC Press, Boca Raton (1992)
Lauff, C., Menold, J., Wood, K.L.: Prototyping canvas: design tool for planning purposeful prototypes. In: Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design, vol. 1, pp. 1563–1572. Cambridge University Press (2019)
Lauff, C.A., Kotys-Schwartz, D., Rentschler, M.E.: What is a prototype? What are the roles of prototypes in companies? J. Mech. Des. 140(6) (2018)
Menold, J., Jablokow, K., Simpson, T.: Prototype for X (PFX): a holistic framework for structuring prototyping methods to support engineering design. Des. Stud. 50, 70–112 (2017)
Otto, K.N., et al.: Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development. Tsinghua University Press Co. Ltd., Wuhan (2003)
Pahl, G., Beitz, W.: Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach. Springer, London (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-319-2
Petrakis, K., Hird, A., Wodehouse, A.: The concept of purposeful prototyping: towards a new kind of taxonomic classification. In: Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design, vol. 1, pp. 1643–1652. Cambridge University Press (2019)
Stowe, D.: Investigating the role of prototyping in mechanical design using case study validation. Master’s thesis, Clemson University (2008)
Wall, M.B., Ulrich, K.T., Flowers, W.C.: Evaluating prototyping technologies for product design. Res. Eng. Des. 3(3), 163–177 (1992)
Wickens, C.D., Gordon, S.E., Liu, Y., et al.: Longman New York (1998)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ahmed, S., Demirel, H.O. (2021). A Prototyping Framework for Human-Centered Product Design: Preliminary Validation Study. In: Soares, M.M., Rosenzweig, E., Marcus, A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: UX Research and Design. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12779. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78221-4_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78221-4_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-78220-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-78221-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)