(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-13)
Zhao, Xue
The advantages of online learning are its flexibility, accessibility, and interactivity that enable students to access learning materials and services from anywhere at any time. Those benefits make online design education no longer a novel concept. As the center of design education, online studio education is currently being discussed broadly by researchers. However, the difficulties of involving physical product development have made industrial design online studio a total blank area. To fill in the gap and create an effective learning experience leveraging current technologies, an LMS-based course model of an online industrial design studio integrating 3D printing and shipping service was proposed based on the understanding of characteristics of industrial design education, online learning, as well as LMS systems. A testable prototype was developed on Canvas based on the model, and the usability of the prototype was evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively. The results of this evaluation indicate that this online industrial design studio has potential to deliver an equivalent learning experience although the usability of the current system should be further improved. Based on the feedback from the evaluation, the prototype was revised, and a guideline for delivering online industrial studio was created.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-13)
Hou, Xianda
The sales and popularity of small-displacement motorcycles has been increasing. With this, the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled has been increasing since year 2013. A great amount of accidents involved with motorcycles were involved with not being able to communicate with other traffic participants or misunderstanding the motorcycle driver’s intention when the right of way is involved. The enhanced signaling system design uses light and sound signal to deliver the message from the motorcycle driver. The VR usability test shown that by using this system, the pedestrians can understand the intension of motorcycle drivers faster and more accurate.