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"Who Owns Design" lecture series continues with Carnegie Mellon professor
Jonathan Cagan, George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Engineering Professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, will speak at 12 p.m. October 5 at Penn State's Stuckeman Family Building. His visit marks the second talk in the Penn State Department of Architecture "Who Owns Design?" Lecture Series.
Author's Insights: Preference is now available on YouTube as part of a new video series called "Author's Insights" that will feature authors of Open Lab publications discussing their work. The videos will feature brief summaries and additional insights for the publications. In this video, Chris talks about his 2007 DETC and 2009 JMD papers, "Including preference in anthropometry-driven models for design."

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Garneau, C. J. and Parkinson, M. B. (2011). Probability of user fit for spatially optimized products. ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences. DETC2011-48569.

This study offers a new method for understanding the likelihood of acceptable fit for users of adjustable products and environments and is a useful tool for aiding the designer in making decisions about problems involving human variability. Accommodation, which describes the ability of a user to interact with a device or environment in a preferred way, is a key product performance metric. Methods that offer a better understanding of accommodation of broad user populations would allow for the [ read more ]