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provider prepare a product that allows users to repair. Provider also prepares a
rental service that users can rent anywhere and return whenever the rain stops.
2.7 Discussions
The results of the case study show that attention to the types of temporal changes in
a design object, a user, and the place of use, and their countermeasures contribute
to the derivation of new time axis design ideas. In particular, we found that the use
of a case-based design approach using the cases of time axis design was effective in
deriving design ideas.
There are some remaining problems to be addressed. One is to validate our design
support method. For example, we need to investigate our design solution really works.
In response to these questions, we need to consider a validation method about our
design support method.
Another problem is that the proposed design support method is case based and
concrete, so it might be more abstract in order to increase generality.
2.8 Conclusion
In this paper, we clarified the concept of time axis design and proposed a time axis
design support method, which aims to respond to changes in people’s lives and sense
of values as the temporal changes by introducing time axis concept into the design
theory.
The design support method we proposed is based on 130 cases of time axis
design we collected. In the proposed design method, plausible temporal changes are
derived by drawing a use case scenario and design ideas are derived by utilizing the
mapping between temporal changes and their countermeasures. As the case study,
we illustrated the time axis design of an umbrella. By using the proposed method,
several time axis design ideas were derived.
Future work will include validation of the derived design ideas and generalization
of design support methods.
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.
16K12667) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
K. Watanabe et al.
provider prepare a product that allows users to repair. Provider also prepares a
rental service that users can rent anywhere and return whenever the rain stops.
2.7 Discussions
The results of the case study show that attention to the types of temporal changes in
a design object, a user, and the place of use, and their countermeasures contribute
to the derivation of new time axis design ideas. In particular, we found that the use
of a case-based design approach using the cases of time axis design was effective in
deriving design ideas.
There are some remaining problems to be addressed. One is to validate our design
support method. For example, we need to investigate our design solution really works.
In response to these questions, we need to consider a validation method about our
design support method.
Another problem is that the proposed design support method is case based and
concrete, so it might be more abstract in order to increase generality.
2.8 Conclusion
In this paper, we clarified the concept of time axis design and proposed a time axis
design support method, which aims to respond to changes in people’s lives and sense
of values as the temporal changes by introducing time axis concept into the design
theory.
The design support method we proposed is based on 130 cases of time axis
design we collected. In the proposed design method, plausible temporal changes are
derived by drawing a use case scenario and design ideas are derived by utilizing the
mapping between temporal changes and their countermeasures. As the case study,
we illustrated the time axis design of an umbrella. By using the proposed method,
several time axis design ideas were derived.
Future work will include validation of the derived design ideas and generalization
of design support methods.
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.
16K12667) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.