ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

In the 21st century as the society and market become more sophisticated and the manufacturing technologies become further developed. To compete and succeed in the marketplace, manufactures will have to look beyond reliability and physical quality and pay more and more attention to the aesthetics and...

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Main Authors:	Sivakumar, Dhar Malingam, Sivarao, Subramonian, Tan, Chee Fai
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Published:	2006
Subjects:	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4306/ http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4306/1/asthetic.pdf

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spelling	utem-43062015-05-28T02:41:02Z ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Sivakumar, Dhar Malingam Sivarao, Subramonian Tan, Chee Fai TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery In the 21st century as the society and market become more sophisticated and the manufacturing technologies become further developed. To compete and succeed in the marketplace, manufactures will have to look beyond reliability and physical quality and pay more and more attention to the aesthetics and subjective quality of their products. While aesthetics and appearance have always played a role in the product and system design, this role will dramatically increase. In the more established technology sectors, functional aspect is a basic in any product and a must to enter the market place. In the verge of competition, cost and aesthetics aspects are among the main factors that often separate the winners and losers. Human factors researcher and design engineers have been focusing research attention on the ease-of-use, productivity, safety, comfort, functionality, manufacturability and effectiveness aspects of product design. It is time that another important dimension is added in the research – the aesthetic dimension. This paper discusses the importance of engineering aesthetics and incorporating the aesthetic dimensions in ergonomics and proposes the need of aesthetic evaluation tools in product design and development process. 2006 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4306/1/asthetic.pdf Sivakumar, Dhar Malingam and Sivarao, Subramonian and Tan, Chee Fai (2006) ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT. In: National Conf. On Design and Concurrent Engineering (DECON 2006), 9-10 August 2006, Melaka, Malaysia. http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4306/
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spellingShingle	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Sivakumar, Dhar Malingam Sivarao, Subramonian Tan, Chee Fai ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
description	In the 21st century as the society and market become more sophisticated and the manufacturing technologies become further developed. To compete and succeed in the marketplace, manufactures will have to look beyond reliability and physical quality and pay more and more attention to the aesthetics and subjective quality of their products. While aesthetics and appearance have always played a role in the product and system design, this role will dramatically increase. In the more established technology sectors, functional aspect is a basic in any product and a must to enter the market place. In the verge of competition, cost and aesthetics aspects are among the main factors that often separate the winners and losers. Human factors researcher and design engineers have been focusing research attention on the ease-of-use, productivity, safety, comfort, functionality, manufacturability and effectiveness aspects of product design. It is time that another important dimension is added in the research – the aesthetic dimension. This paper discusses the importance of engineering aesthetics and incorporating the aesthetic dimensions in ergonomics and proposes the need of aesthetic evaluation tools in product design and development process.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Sivakumar, Dhar Malingam Sivarao, Subramonian Tan, Chee Fai
author_facet	Sivakumar, Dhar Malingam Sivarao, Subramonian Tan, Chee Fai
author_sort	Sivakumar, Dhar Malingam
title	ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
title_short	ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
title_full	ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
title_fullStr	ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
title_full_unstemmed	ENGINEERING AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS EVALUATION TOOLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
title_sort	engineering aesthetics and aesthetics ergonomics evaluation tools in product design and development
publishDate	2006
url	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4306/ http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4306/1/asthetic.pdf
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