O design de brinquedos voltado para as crianças com deficiência visual

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A intervenção do design nas superfícies projetadas: processos multifacetados e estudos de caso

Pós-graduação em Design - FAAC

Massagem com aromaterapia e sua eficiência para o usuário em internação psiquiátrica

Pós-graduação em Enfermagem (mestrado profissional) - FMB

Diretrizes projetuais e o emprego das tendências: o design de móveis residenciais no polo de Arapongas/PR

Constant social, cultural and political changes influence directly people’s life and define their needs and tastes. Trends have the role of signaling through these facts people’s preferences regarding to objects and can, therefore be connected with great design, as it works with project that is a planning activity for future. In this context, this study aimed to characterize trend jobs in Brazilians home designing methodology. For both: theoretical aspects were studied that led to reasoning, a field research in five Furniture industries Pole of Arapongas/PR was done, and a research for possible developmental reference of furniture in Brazil. Results indicated: misused and mistaken concepts of trend and ignorance on how they operate lack of knowledge about industries sector consumer profile, the concern about sales and not with consumer as “furniture user” and finally, the existence of Brazilian referential sources, but the lack of skilled professionals that could decode these sources.

Design de Relações entre tecnologias amigáveis e sociabilidades virtuais: um novo campo de investigação para o Design

The Digital Age, with its new interactive and converging technologies, stimulates original forms of sociability, which are interconnected, intercommunicating and virtualized through hyperscreens. Another kind of interaction arises from the digitization and new speeds of contemporary communicative process. With the new order of knowledge, it is now possible to transgress the limits of physical space and linear time sequence, through the collective development of content through such telematics networks. Youth gives voice to a new type of user, or a social actor, whose thinking is connected to other communication habits, consolidating singular cultural standards, demanding new languages and skills. Here, we address the nature of this Design of new relations, interactions, behaviors and social systems that emerge in the so called Information Society.

Características da interface dos sites de notícias: um estudo do design e da usabilidade de jornais impressos e eletrônicos

The paper presents an ergonomic analysis of reading usability of electronic journals and the comparison with newspapers. As a method, it was adopted an evaluation of the user perception, from a printed questionnaire applied to a group of 41 people. Overall, the results indicate that on the analyzed newspapers there is need for greater care concerning the aspects of visual representation, involving more design application, usability, ergonomics, technology and communication.

Design e inovação em contexto de ensino-aprendizagem

This paper presents part of the results of a post-doctoral research project which is called "Hypermedia Design involved with the User Experience". The discussion will be undertaken in this article assumes that the use of a hypermedia environment facing the field of Design can facilitate the process of teaching and learning in an undergraduate degree in Design. The theme that guides the paper of the following question: if the education and training in design does not allow access, involvement and knowledge of the technologies in its primary base that practitioners and researchers are forming for the near future? For both this study focuses on the use of a digital environment by reporting of an experiment of using hypermedia digital book "Design, Education and Technology" as a teaching tool in undergraduate courses in design, results and notes on issues involving interactivity and user experience. The methodology has a qualitative bias, developed along the lines of exploratory research in the form of a case study, lectures, and workshops for the dynamic observation, a questionnaire and analysis of results were applied

Design e semântica: investigação de técnicas estatísticas para auxílio no projeto de produto

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Limites reais e impostos à criança com subvisão: a contribuição do design para o projeto de jogos inclusivos

Pós-graduação em Design - FAAC

A multiprojeção de ambientes virtuais gerados por motores de jogo: o histórico e o design de uma solução genérica aplicado no motor de jogo Unity

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

SNIIC: a plataforma digital de cultura brasileira sob a perspectiva das convergências entre o Design e a Ciência da Informação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)