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NIH Awarded Grant: Care for Veterans and Healthcare Providers
A Community-Based, Collaborative Course for Industrial Design and Biomedical Engineering Students PI: Pamela VandeVord, Co-PIs: Christopher B. Arena, Elham Morshedzadeh, Brad D. Hendershot, John L. Robertson, Andre A. Muelenaer, Elias A. Lianos,…
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Designing Interactive Human-Aware Academic Space
This collaborative project, in which Dr. Nazila Roofigary-Esfahan in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, USA and I are PIs, is also a prime example of Beyond Boundaries. Entitled “Designing Interactive…
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Connection 2 Care
Mary Beth Dunkenberger, Elham Morshedzade, Akshay Sharma The deep knowledge and skillsets related to the research and design process prepares our senior ID students for more complex projects. For example, in Figure…
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Team Malawi
Senior Thesis Projects, by nature, are a great vessel for integrating project-based learning pedagogy. With my focus in healthcare and public health, I’ve been providing students in this studio with opportunities and…
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Interactive Training System for Pediatric Telemedicine Cart Operators
PI: Elham Morshedzadeh, Ph.D., Co-PIs: Melinda Schriver, Wallace Lages, Andre Muelenaer During the 2020 pandemic, telemedical consultation became a core tool for continuous access to healthcare. However, the skills required of medical…
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CODE Program
(Education Program – Teaching Assistant) Chiba University has launched a new design education program which aims to nurture global designers who could succeed anywhere in the world with the collaboration of 3…
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The User-Product Interaction Evaluation (UPIE) Model
(Ph.D. Thesis) A Structured Method for Testing and Improving the Product Design Interaction design is based on a dialogue between a user and a product, service, or system. This dialogue can be…
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Iwaizumi
(Workshop – Teaching Assistant) The purpose of this workshop was to explore possible ways of improving the tourism, economy, food, and craft industry in the area of Iwaizumi. Iwaizumi is located in…
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A Case Study for the User-Product Interaction Evaluation (UPIE) Model
(Published Paper) This paper investigates how a new approach to evaluating user-product interaction can benefit the product designer’s interpretations of evaluation results. It describes an experiment that studied users’ interactions with a…
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A New Model for Improving User-Product Interaction Evaluation, Based on Affordance and Factor Analysis
(Published Paper) Interaction Design has different definitions in different areas. Generally, it is the creation of physical and emotional dialogues between a person and a product, system, or service that can be…
