`FRACTION, an investigation on principles of functional design and its expressive potential´ is dealing with the interaction between the body, the worn garment and the closer space around it, in the context of the three being individual functional systems. Based on my findings, I am questioning the existing paradigms for a functional expression with the aim of generating an outlook for a possible development of what can be considered a functional visual. How much function can an expression contain and how much expression can still be considered functional?Revisiting the historic context of functional design, not garment construction, profound thoughts on aesthetics and function as well as the current status of the branch, this article is aiming for a more holistic view on functional creation and fashion design. Based on this theoretical background ten outfits got developed. All of them serve as a conceptual proposal of what the findings could mean in reality. / Program: Konstnärligt masterprogram i mode- och textildesign med inriktning mot modedesign eller textildesign

The last decades the increased computerisation at the places of work has led to new physical loads in the working life and new demands on the working environment. The widespread usage of computers in the working life has led to more sedentary work and less daily movement. The purpose of the thesis is to develop a new product to a concept that in a low intensive and healthy promotional way will activate the body. The product will make a combination of healthy promotion activity and work during office hours possible and primary aims to those with a sedentary office work, which leads to that the body don´t get to be activated in the extent needed. Information has been gathered from studies already made in this area, interviews plus a study and an experiment. From the gathered information concepts and functional solutions has been generated and evaluated to result in a product concept. The thesis has resulted in a concept that consists of a work place unit where the user walks on a treadmill and works at the same time. A general conclusion which can be drawn is that the majority of persons that tested to walk and simultaneously work with a computor on the treadmill found this way of working attractive. Many were positively surprised and said that they would use such an physically activating work place implement if it was available at their place of work.

<p>The last decades the increased computerisation at the places of work has led to new physical loads in the working life and new demands on the working environment. The widespread usage of computers in the working life has led to more sedentary work and less daily movement.</p><p>The purpose of the thesis is to develop a new product to a concept that in a low intensive and healthy promotional way will activate the body. The product will make a combination of healthy promotion activity and work during office hours possible and primary aims to those with a sedentary office work, which leads to that the body don´t get to be activated in the extent needed.</p><p>Information has been gathered from studies already made in this area, interviews plus a study and an experiment. From the gathered information concepts and functional solutions has been generated and evaluated to result in a product concept.</p><p>The thesis has resulted in a concept that consists of a work place unit where the user walks on a treadmill and works at the same time.</p><p>A general conclusion which can be drawn is that the majority of persons that tested to walk and simultaneously work with a computor on the treadmill found this way of working attractive. Many were positively surprised and said that they would use such an physically activating work place implement if it was available at their place of work.</p>

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1995.

Dans le contexte économique actuel, il faut proposer des produits personnalisés dequalité, à faible coût et dans des délais de plus en plus courts. La société MABI a choisi devoir chacune de ces contraintes comme une opportunité de repenser ses produits en misantsur l’innovation. Il faut alors optimiser certaines tâches routinières d’ingénierie afin dedégager du temps pour la conception des nouveaux produits. Le travail de recherche réalisés’inscrit dans le cadre d’une thèse en convention CIFRE en partenariat entre la société MABIet le laboratoire IRTES-M3M de l’UTBM. MABI conçoit, assemble, commercialise et assurele service après-vente de produits propres dans le domaine de la protection et la rénovationdes bâtiments. Ses besoins d’amélioration concernent le processus de développement deproduits qui doivent répondre aux besoins des clients tout en respectant des contraintesd’assemblage spécifiques à l’entreprise. La finalité industrielle de la thèse consiste à décliner au niveau du domaine du« Produit », la méthodologie générique élaborée sur la base de notre travail de recherchescientifique. A ce niveau, notre problématique scientifique consiste à rendre opérationnel etdynamique le modèle Multi-Domaines et Multi-Vues (MD-MV), structuré de manière «plutôtstatique», en y apportant des éléments de raisonnement contribuant à créer des interactionsinter-domaines et inter-points de vue. Pour ce qui est du domaine du « Produit », il endécoule la méthodologie FARD (Functional And Robust Design) qui vise à concevoir et àgénérer rapidement l’ensemble des variantes de produits d’une même famille modulaire touten assurant le respect des besoins clients (conception fonctionnelle) et des contraintesd’assemblage à travers une aide à la décision pour le choix de la séquence d’assemblage,contribuant ainsi à créer une interaction dynamique avec le domaine du « Process ». Quatrethèmes de recherche sont abordés : la modularité, la conception fonctionnelle, la conceptionpour l’assemblage (dès les phases amont du processus de conception) et la simulation(accélérée grâce au paramétrage du maillage). Habituellement, le domaine de la modularitéest souvent associé à celui de la conception fonctionnelle ou encore à celui de la conceptionpour l’assemblage, mais rarement les trois ensemble, ce qui constitue la spécificité de nostravaux. Enfin, l’aspect paramétrique de la méthodologie FARD, à travers les liens établisentre les quatre thèmes de recherche évoqués précédemment, rend possible la générationrapide des produits d’une même famille à partir d’un produit générique et ainsi de gagner dutemps de conception, en vue d‘atteindre nos objectifs de conception routinière « HautementProductive ». Trois cas d’études industriels et académiques illustrent l’application et lafaisabilité la méthodologie FARD... / In current economic context, enterprises must provide quality custom products at alower cost and a shorter delay. MABI Company chose to consider these constraints as anopportunity to rethink its products through innovation. Then certain routine tasks must beoptimized to free up time in order to have more time to innovate and design new products.This thesis is part of a CIFRE partnership between the MABI Company and the IRTES-M3Mlaboratory at UTBM. MABI designs, assembles, sells and provides after-sales service ofproducts in the field of the protection and the renovation of buildings. MABI needs ofimprovement are in the development process of its products that must meet customer needs,while respecting its assembly constraints.The industrial purpose of the thesis is to decline in the Product domain, the genericmethodology developed on the basis of our scientific research work. At this level, ourscientific problematic is to make operational and dynamic the Multi-Domains and Multi-Viewsdesign model (MD-MV), structured in a "rather static" way, and to enriched these models byadding reasoning procedures. It follows the FARD methodology (Functional And RobustDesign) which aims to design and quickly generate variants of a modular product family whileensuring compliance with customer requirements (functional design) and assemblyconstraints. Four domains are covered: modularity, functional design, design for assembly (atthe early stages of the design process) and simulation (accelerated through theparameterisation of the mesh). Usually the domain of modularity is often associated withfunctional design or with the design for assembly, but rarely the three together, thatconstitutes one of our added values. Finally, the parametric aspect of the FARDmethodology, that is the link between the four domains, allows accelerated the generation ofproducts of the same family from a generic product and thus saving design time to achieveour goal of "High Productive" routine design. Three industrial and academic case studiesillustrate the application and the feasibility of the FARD methodology...

The aim of this paper is to analyse gamification practices as well as to study management by personalities. Upon this basis the objective will be to design a management software for the new management era that will collect large quantities of data about individual team members (Big Data-based software), thus enabling managers to allocate new team members onto teams upon their personalities, skills and experience in gamified user interface. The ultimate goal of this paper will be to serve as guidebook for managers to manage by knowing the variety of personalities as well as by applying gamification elements onto everyday tasks.

Since footwear flexibility impacts functional design factors, numerous studies have investigated footwear bending stiffness. However, the various methods used to measure footwear bending stiffness have some limitations. Hence, the scope of this study was to develop and quantify the reliability of a novel test set-up for measuring footwear bending stiffness. A test set-up consisting of a hydraulic testing machine, a bending apparatus and a fixation unit was created that fulfilled the requirements specified in the initial phase of the study. The test set-up was evaluated by testing 15 different boots in three series of measurements. Bending stiffness of the boots ranged from 0.61 ± 0.03 Nm/° to 2.38 ± 0.08 Nm/°. Two-way analysis of variance test yielded that the test set-up enabled the reliable measurement of footwear bending stiffness. Relative measurement uncertainty ranged from 1.3 % to 6.1 %.

Als Erfolgsfaktoren einer Notaufnahme gelten neben qualifiziertem Personal, der Ausstattung und Medizintechnik auch die baulich- funktionale Gestaltung. Notaufnahmen müssen sich immer wieder ändernden Rahmenbedingungen anpassen. So können beispielsweise steigende Patientenzahlen ein möglicher Faktor sein. Umstrukturierungen von Notaufnahmen erfordern deshalb eine besondere Zusammenarbeit zwischen Planenden und dem Fachpersonal, denn nur so können Schwachstellen genauestens herausgefiltert werden. Damit Planende die Prozesse innerhalb der Notaufnahme verstehen, ist diese Zusammenarbeit ein wichtiger Faktor. Deshalb wird die Customer Journey als mögliche Methode getestet, um Abläufe besser verstehen zu können und die erworbenen Erkenntnisse als Grundlage für Umplanung von Notaufnahmen zu verwenden. Dafür wird die Methode bei- spielhaft an ausgewählten Szenarien durchgeführt. Als Basis für die Customer Journey wurde ein auf unfallchirurgische Prozesse zugeschnittenes Interview mit einem Assistenzarzt für Allgemeinchirurgie einer Notaufnahme durchgeführt. Das Ziel soll es sein mit der Journey eine geeignete Planungsgrundlage zu entwickeln, welche den Architekt innen und Fachplanenden bei Umstrukturierungen als Planungswerkzeug dienen soll. So kann die Journey, als Planungswerkzeug zur Bestandsanalyse und -bewertung, als auch für die Zielplanung hilfreich sein.