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This research article crafted, evaluated, and revised a theoretically underpinned design concept with the purpose of enhancing customers' dine-in experiences. The design concept was motivated by the considerable interest in artificial intelligence (AI), voice user interfaces (VUI) within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and the rapid digitalization of online food ordering as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study applied the concept-driven design research approach because it offered to make theoretical contributions while at the same time being design and concept-oriented. The result of this research is a revised design concept that has the potential to digitalize the dine-in restaurant business further and add to the understanding of human experience while interacting with a voice user interface. Finally, the research article manifests as an example of how interaction designers make theoretical contributions through design and how technologies can be combined in new contexts. © 2022 Owner/Author.
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Living during a COVID-19 pandemic has negative effects on a person's psychophysiological state such as high-stress levels, leading to poor health, chronic fatigue and insomnia. As a result, the immunity is reduced, which is particularly dangerous today. One way to solve this problem is the use of health-saving clothing, which has additional features that provide the positive effect on the wearer's body. The developed gloves affect the state of the human autonomic nervous system through biological-active locations in the places of the hand and wrist. An anthropometric study of the biological-active locations of the wrist and hand is performed to construct the glove design. An algorithm for constructing a drawing of the design of the designed product based on four measurements is proposed. The effectiveness of the adaptive gloves is confirmed by studying its effect on the psycho-emotional and psychophysiological state of a person without exposure to the product and after its use by software "Intera-Diacor" and "ROFES", and a questionnaire. The evaluation is performed after wearing gloves for 20-40 minutes. It was found that 83.3 % of the wearers of the health-saving gloves showed positive changes in the body's compensatory forces (stress) and the state of internal emotional fatigue. Thus, the use of health-saving gloves has a positive social, therapeutic (health-saving) and economic effect, as the product has several functions It is an accessory fashion, has hand protection, and, has additional features to positively influence the body of the person wearing it. This allows the future to talk about the use of consumer-friendly and effective ways to correct the men's psychoemotional and psychophysiological states, based on the safer-by-design concept. © 2022 Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. All rights reserved.
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In line with the recent development of technology, various access to health can be done through smartphones. Many developers are looking for profit by making mHealth applications, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the display features in these apps have not used ergonomic design principles. Therefore, this study aims to design an ergonomic interface design concept for mHealth apps. The method used refers to the meta-principle for designing digital applications. The initial stage was carried out by distributing online questionnaires to identify user needs. The second stage is benchmarking which is done by evaluating the interfaces of the 4 existing mHealth applications. The next step is to develop the meta-principles needed to design the interface for the mHealth application. The final result of this study is an interface design concept for mHealth apps which is obtained by combining user needs data, benchmarking evaluation and meta-principles. The design concept consists of the top, middle and bottom part of application displays. © 2022 ACM.
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With the rapid process of urbanization in China, more and more young high-knowledge residents (YHKR) tend to choose to work and live in cities. Under such circumstances, youth apartments have become the first choice for YHKRs due to their flexible leasing methods, efficient layout, convenient service facilities and other advantages, and they have developed rapidly in vast cities in the past 10 years. However, the YHKRs characterized by high population mobility have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the vacancy rate of youth apartments in China's first-tier cities to rise to 15%-20% in 2020. This paper proposes a design concept of a growth-type youth apartment (GTYA) to meet the above challenges and expounds the proposed design concept from three aspects: the birth of buildings, the growth of buildings and the disappearance of buildings. The design concept of GTYA is considered to be able to be operated in an urban chain mode, which is conducive to more efficient use of land resources. The research results provide new design perspectives and development directions for youth apartments in modern cities under the background of the pandemic. © Conference Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Project Management, China, ISPM 2022.
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Health security measures have become increasingly important in tourism, as there is a heightened need to rebuild the trust of tourists in destinations and tourism services. Innovative product development might help respond to the emerging health-related needs of tourists. We address the lack of the application of Designcommunication (DIS:CO)-based approaches in the field of tourism, present a process for the theoretical development of a smart device, and explore its applications. Combining the results of the qualitative inquiry and applying DIS:CO in research and development, the concept of 4S—traveling Safe, Secure, Smart, and Sustainable—emerges in a socio-cultural and economic context, supporting the foundation of the material realisation of the product. As a result, the 4S concept presents how customised, continual feedback on the health condition of the user before and during a trip, and notifications about possible health risks in different tourist areas, might facilitate the process of trust-building. Although data on unconventional tourists is not included in tourism statistics, the designed product can assist in gathering information about them, too. With the permission of users, the built-in functions of the designed product can be used to detect their position and direction of movement. The product also helps monitor the health of tourists by providing up-to-date data on infection levels to tourism service providers. In its passive mode, as a souvenir, the device strengthens travel desire.
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The spread of corona virus pneumonia in the world has brought serious threat to people’s life and health. The models of Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital and Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital prove that the construction of emergency infectious disease hospital plays an important role in dealing with sudden epidemic. However, because of the differences in construction technology, design concept and construction period, the cost management experience of traditional hospital can not be simply applied to the project cost of emergency infectious disease hospital. Taking Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan as an example, this paper analyzes the challenges and countermeasures of project cost in emergency infectious disease hospital, which can provide reference for similar project cost management. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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We present a design and implementation of a lower-level computer organization and architecture course with hands-on components presented as blended-learning modules that are collectively designed to introduce core computer design concepts primarily to college students studying applied science and technology programs, such as computer science and information technology. With a particular focus on single-board computers and associated hardware modules, students are introduced to core computer components early in their coursework, and encouraged to study advanced engineering concepts as higher elective courses to help them better understand the underlying design of hardware modules. Hands-on activities and problem-based modules are re-designed with the flexibility to be applied in settings that involve all in-classroom cohorts, as well as courses offered in synchronous and/or asynchronous online learning methodologies, which is becoming of particular importance to educators under COVID-19 implications. First cohort of this newly redesigned course was offered in Fall 2019, when, in the middle of the semester, all instructional methodology had to be switched to fully-online after health measures in October-November 2019. Second and third cohorts of the course are currently being offered in 2020-2021 academic year. Anonymous research data collected with these three cohorts of the revised course show that redesigned of the course improved overall course reviews, while meeting educational goals to introduce students to core knowledge areas in computer organization and architecture. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021
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A brushless motor and propeller test stand is used to test brushless motors and propellers. This testing instrument is still only available in research laboratories. Students and researchers are unable to use laboratory facilities because of the Covid-19 epidemic, thus students must be able to do tests independently from home. Purchasing this testing instrument would be too expensive for students. It is essential to construct a brushless motor and propeller testing instrument at home using simple components that are easy to get on the marketplace. The design concept reads force data using a loadcell sensor and an HX711 driver, and current and voltage data with an INA 219 sensor. The brushless motor's rotational speed is controlled by a potentiometer. Force, current, voltage, and power are all examples of test results data. A 16x2 LCD is used to show data immediately. Data is also transmitted via a USB connection to a computer device for storage or additional analysis. This study proposes a simple brushless motor and propeller test stand that can measure forces from 0 gf to 1000 gf with an error rate of 0.72 %. The power that can be read ranges from 0 mW to 18960 mW, with a 0.59 % error rate. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.