ESMAD - Departamento de Design
Permanent URI for this community
Browse
Browsing ESMAD - Departamento de Design by Issue Date
Now showing 1 - 10 of 17
Results Per Page
Sort Options
- O cartógrafo, o alquimista e o ilusionistaPublication . Tavares, AbelA partir de exemplos singulares de representação e projeção do real, propomos uma perspetiva crítica sobre como os atuais instrumentos digitais de desenho utilizados em projeto, sancionados por uma suposta objetividade e inocuidade tecnológica, intervêm no processo de construção e (des)codificação do real. Processo esse, tendencialmente exclusivo, onde parece não haver lugar à dúvida, imprevisibilidade e imperfeição. E onde a tecnologia digital parece oferecer uma miríade de soluções, que mais não são do que uma frugal lista de simulacros estereotipados feitos de lugares-comuns.
- Exploring the users’ experience in healthcare servicesPublication . Rodrigues, Rita; Coelho, Rita; Tavares, João Manuel R. S.The challenge in Healthcare services concerns the development of an agreeable experience to the users without affecting the functionality of the service. The traditional approach of the facilities design is focused on providing the best care with the most functional service possible. Based on this paradigm, most of the times the users and their experiences and emotions are not considered when a service is designed. However, concerns with the users’ experience in services are growing, and mainly in Portugal we are starting to observe that the Institutions intend to improve and ameliorate their facilities in order to meet the users’ needs. The project described in this article was developed in one of the biggest Healthcare Institutions in the north of Portugal: Hospital de São João at Porto city. In this project, the main intention of the research was to understand which elements of the physical setting of the Institution had the most impact on the users’ experience and perceptions of the service under study. The methodologies applied to gather the data were questionnaires (applied to the patients of the institution), unstructured interviews (conducted with healthcare professionals) and direct observations performed in situ. The results revealed that the most problematic elements identified were the poor designed signage system that resulted in wayfinding difficulties for the users.
- Non-objects: the study of mass-produced functional objects in the domestic environmentPublication . Soares, Cristina LousadaThis article is part of a broader study focused on the perception of functional domestic objects. We propose the analysis of user perception of said objects, through literary revision of key authors and concepts, and also via an enquiry and photographic records of the objects of study in their domestic environment. By promoting investigation of user perception we aim to provide product designers with information and potentially tools which will be conducive to a more informed approach during the design process. “Never have more of us had more possessions than we do now, even as we make less and less use of them. The homes in which we spend so little time are filled with things.” [1] “(…) A deficit in the study and theory of use has long been known without any recognizable professional efforts to close this gap through research and intellectual efforts.” [2] Working towards the concept of non-object, as a category of objects, arose from Marc Augé’s Non-Places book which is central in our research. We wondered if, in a mass-produced world, we could also identify and name a category of objects as non-objects? The revision of key authors and theories by designers, philosophers and social theorists such as Braudillard, Brandes, Norman, Dormer, Merleau-Ponty, Flusser, Sudjic, Dorfles, Thackara, Katz and Lukic, amongst others, help us in our investigation, and support its need, and is instrumental in outlining the scope of the non-object concept.
- [Introdução de] Tecnologia da Comunicação AudiovisualPublication . Quelhas, Vítor
- Visual archives in digital newspapers: an aproach to visual lexicon in an information visualization prototypePublication . Fernandes, Marta; Giesteira, BrunoBy rethinking how digital information and media have evolved, we intend to discuss how Information Visualization is performing an essential role in the field of newspapers, and how it can evolve with particular emphasis on content archiving for future access. The presence of new visual structures used in fields such as digital archiving, have questioned digital methods of preservation and how the interrelation between information and access to knowledge is revealed. In digital newspapers, the development of access and information retrieval processes has become an essential part of their duties, but it is still in it’s infancy and dependent on text search rather then content awareness. By outlining the links between Visual Archives and Information Visualization, with focus on online press, we venture in a path of trial and error. This is present by the recognition of lack of efficient articulation between different types of contents, as well as between the user interaction and the contents outcomes. Thus proposing a visual lexicon that can adjust to the constraints of technology, different user devices, and the promptitude of publication that a Web context demands it is utmost relevant. A combination of fields, with attention to visual perception and arbitrary conventions in relation to image and content awareness, grants the association of concepts such as big data and thick data description, being part of the outcomes of this research a proposal to a theoretical model grounded on prototyping testing in a newsroom office. This empirical methodological approach is supported by a low-fidelity prototype, for iterative formative evaluations, fostering field’s observations with potential users in order to identify the best visual components of a digital visual archive for online newspapers. The challenge is to develop visual structures that preserve and present the interconnections of news, information and knowledge to be seen, accessed and linked. By making use of a lo-fi prototype of a visual digital archive we aimed, to test, re-test, and find responses in dialogue, failure and retrial. The body of work shown here presents the practical outcomes of the theoretical model.
- [Introdução de] Design Gráfico e de PublicidadePublication . Sarson, Steven
- [Introdução de] Design Gráfico e de PublicidadePublication . Sarson, Steven
- [Introdução de] Pós-graduação em Design de Interiores e EspaçosPublication . Tavares, Abel
- Lugar e design: reflexões sobre a pertinência da comunicação no espaço urbanoPublication . Serapicos, Pedro; Lima, LucianaA urgência de comunicarmos melhor elevou o Design ao papel de identificar a proveniência da mensagem através de uma variedade assinalável de expressões, linguagens e suportes. Com a aceleração dos media e a digitalização das sociedades, observamos o crescimento exponencial desta responsabilidade resultante de um protagonismo da interação comunicativa entre o Homem e a instituição. Emerge, assim, o momento que vem destacar o papel do design sobre a vitalidade sócio- económica contemporânea. Moldado, nos planos formal e conceptual, pelo entorno tecnológico evolutivo e emparelhado com as várias disciplinas da comunicação, somos convidados a refletir sobre questões relacionadas com a marca e a identidade visual em diálogo com os novos paradigmas da perceção global. Usamos como suporte analítico o debate sobre a cidade contemporânea e o papel interventivo do design, nomeadamente o contributo que empresta à expressão e perceção do espaço urbano. Reside nesta discussão a compreensão de que o design se assume, cada vez mais, como intermediário privilegiado da comunicação entre as organizações e a comunidade. Este universo de relações acaba por criar novos argumentos de vida, plena de expansão tecnológica, que transformam o cidadão num espectador e consumidor de imagens cujo modelo comportamental reflete valores das marcas que consome ao longo da sua existência.
- Non-objects: the perception of use of intelligent objects. The case of the smartphonePublication . Soares, Cristina Lousada; Barbosa, Maria JoãoThis article is part of a research conducted with the aim of obtaining the degree of Doctorate in Design, in the Product Design area. The definition of non-objects through the study of perception of use is the aim of our work. The focus on intelligent objects, namely the smartphone, comes from the growing pervasiveness of these objects in daily life, which is leading to new personal, social and working behaviours. We intend to investigate amongst other issues: how users perceive smart objects, in particular smartphones; if design as a practice embraces the ambiguous traits of these devices; understand which smart objects have more acceptance in daily life; to have a clearer notion regarding the use of smartphones: functionalities, personal or work related use; understand how important it is for the smartphone to be personal; and if users are aware of being dependent of these devices and how it provokes distancing and distraction in relation to other activities through its compulsive use. Here we review the methodology used in the research process, which includes a literary revision of key concepts and relevant authors, and a questionnaire, with the aim of understanding whether smart objects, smartphones in particular, can be defined as nonobjects.