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HEMISPHERE Appendix Manouk Verschure Industrial Product Design Fontys University of Applied Sciences Venlo Company: Supervisor: Pim Rosendaal Supervising Lecturer: Estella Stok CHAPTERS 1. Plan of Action p. 3-4 2. Trendresearch 2.1 Trend 1: SOUNDNESS TRAVEL p. 4-5 2.2 Trend 2: MIND MINIMALISM p. 5-6 2.3 Trend 3:FLEXIBLE TOUCH p. 6-7 3. Available wireless technology 3.1 Tesla coil p. 7 3.2 Magnetic Resonance p. 8 3.3 Radio Frequency (RF) p. 8 3.4 SAR regulations p. 9 3.5 Radiation explained p. 9-10 3.6 Infrared p. 10 3.7 WIFI p. 10 3.8 Sound p. 11 3.9 Meeting at Wireless Power Consortium of Philips p. 11-12 4. Contextual Inquiry program p. 13-15 5. Kesselring method p. 16 6. Technical drawings p. 17-24 -2- 1. PLAN OF ACTION Technology - research Demands will be formed. To start with, different technologies available will be investigated. Sketching - phase Then the various abilities of every During this process, sketches will individual technology will be be made on the base of the list of listed. Within this list, unusable wishes and demands. technologies will be crossed out Thereafter it will be investigated if till only the promising technologies the design would fit MANU and to remain. After looking at these the examined target group. Within residual technologies individually, this phase, a large number of as the technology most feasible will many sketches as possible will be be chosen. made to get a feeling of learning which shape would fit best to the Target-group - research target group and MANU. the best. The needs of the target group These designs sketches will be suitable to MANU will be in favor of the possibilities of the researched. Thereby their lifestyle chosen technology. and additional needs. During desk,- and field-research trends will be Concept - phase formed, whereof design decisions Out of these sketches, concepts will be made. But to get to know will be formed. Every concept this target group first, desktop will have its own characteristics research will be done. on the basis of consumer insights, together with the chosen When the target group is technology. These concepts will determined a survey will be made be tested within the Program of and spread within the Dutch Demands. Vogel’s companies. Participants not suitable for the target group Prototyping - phase will be filtered out. On the base of When the choice of a concept is this survey results, design wishes made, the prototype phase will and demands will be listed. Also, begin. In this phase, prototypes an old focus group session done will be built and adjusted to by MANU in 2016 will be reviewed. technical- or consumer insights. The relevance of the mentioned During this process, sketches needs participants experienced will simultaneously be made to at that time, will be compared to improve the final design. These relevance for today. other resources prototypes will also be used to of information will be viewed to perform a Contextual Inquiry test complete the picture of the target within the target group. The results group. These results will also be of this test will be taken along with implemented to the list of wishes shaping the design of the final and demands. From the wishes concept. and demands list the Program of -3- Technical detailing - phase Visualization - phase During the technical detail-, and To make the final design engineering phase the design will presentable visualizations will be be defined technically. made during the The technical details will be visualization phase. These thought out and translated into visualizations can then be used in a technical 3D model. This 3D the final report and during the final model will be elaborated on to 2D presentation. drawings to make the model ready for production. 2. TREND RESEARCH 2.1 TREND 1 Why: mental relaxation, health SOUNDNESS TRAVEL and experience What: Because of the rush of everyday life, people are searching for stillness combined with a wellness experience. They find this wellness in traveling where they can completely de- stress. By Simon Migaj Where: TREND TRAVEL WELLNESS CRUISE TRAVEL NEXT LEVEL Photo reportage: anama Name: Goop at Sea Online travel agency Photographer Petros Koublis The platform Goop is The online travel agency made a photo reportage invented by Gwyneth EQUINOX EXPLORE is about about unseen parts of a Paltrow and mend for creating a next-level journey. Greek Island. The image is nonjudgmental conversations They offer experiences that designed to envision the to share experience and reach the limit of travel. island thousands of years ago. products. These ingredients Going deeper with like- This would give the viewer an combined with wellness will minded travelers to discover experience of stepping out be experienced during this soul-touching cultures and of everyday life for a minute. cruise. For people to de- excursions. A combination (TREND TABLET, z.d.) stress and open their minds of luxury and body limits. to new discoveries. (Celebrity (EQUINOX EXPLORE , z.d.) -4- Cruises, z.d.) Who: The Bucket List Family Their YouTube channel, Instagram and The Bucket List Family is a family originally website give small insights into their daily life from the U.S. that was traveling all around and travels they did an still do. They want to the world and shared all their experiences inspire people to let go of the daily rush and online. They share photos and videos of their just enjoy the moments of life. (The Bucket journey and visit the most exotic locations List Family, z.d.) in the world. Every journey they stay at a different AirBnB to get in closer contact with When: the locals. They started traveling to make one The majority of people now days feel the last big trip before they would settle down. need for wellness traveling. Comparing to But because they discovered they could overall tourism, wellness travel is growing make a living from traveling, they traveled twice as hard. Also, most wellness tourists full-time for 3 years and visited 65 different are spending 178% more than the average countries. But because of family matters, they traveler. These tourists associate traveling do not travel full-time anymore. (The Bucket with personal well-being and something that List Family, z.d.) would need to fit their lifestyle. Most travelers are higher educated women between 30 and 60 years old. (Rubinstein, 2020) Why: Mentally ordered, less stress, 2.2 TREND 2 beauty in surroundings, less worry MIND MINIMALISM What: Because of hectic lives people nowadays live in, a growing need raises to minimalize. Minimalization will order the mind until the only necessary basics. It will create peace of mind in metal and physical elements. By Bench Accounting Where: lUXE, MINIMALISTIC THE LONGING FOR LESS MINIMALISTIC MAKEOVER Sneaker: JAK Shoes Book by: Kyle Chayka Fashion: KENZO This shoe promises to give Writer Kyle Chayka wrote With a nomadic lifestyle a Royal, luxury feeling by the book The Longing For as inspiration, the brand designing it as minimalistic Less book to found out wat KENZO decided to bring a as possible. Minimalistic is minimalistic actually means. more minimalistic look to seen as a high-end design Minimalism is fundamentally the Spring/Summer of 2020. feather that should look about the diversity of vision. This fresh vision follows natural. Therewith it does not Attention to detail is a process other brands to go back to compromise in beauty and that needs to be refreshed nature and necessarily basics. aging of this shoe should be every day. (Chayka, 2020a) (Silbert, 2020) visible. (Staff, 2020) -5- Who; Jelle Derckx be. Jelle Derckx found his happiness in his Jelle Derckx is an actor, writer, and blogger. minimalistic lifestyle. (Derckx, 2019) After he graduated in 2007 at the Utrecht theater academy he decided to focus on When: living as minimalistic as possible. During The phenomenon of minimalizing belongings this process, he invented the platform to order the mind is becoming more relevant growthinkers together with his girlfriend today. Technology has made enormous steps Claire. On this platform, they publish articles, and made life a lot easier today. But because podcasts, and videos about living sustainable life has made it easier, it also brings more and minimalistic. He hopes to inspire other rush what results in more stress to daily life. people to follow his passion and be more Philosopher Richard Gregg already noticed aware of the environment. (Derckx, 2019) this in 1933, he published an essay about what more technology and machinery would In June 2018 he published his book bringing. The essay is called “The Value “Verlangen naar minder” together with of Voluntary Simplicity” and foresees the publisher Luitingh Sijthoff. His book is about need of people wanting to unplug and slow learning minimalize belongings to minimalize down. He noticed the effect of technology the mind. The fewer stuff people have to on people and therefore criticized this carry around, the more flexible they can development. (Chayka, 2020b) 2.3 Trend 3 FLEXIBLE TOUCH Why: Piece of mind, charring economy, What: feeling of community, being outside of Creating more possibilities for workers to work flexibly will be in favor of their wellbeing. Technology today causes people to not being able to turn off anymore. This results in not only their personal but also work life. People experiencing an increasing amount of performance pressure. Which leads to the upcoming need for working flexibly in the near future. By Brooke Cagle Where: IKEA Without PARKING SUPERLOFTS FLEXIBLE WORK New concept store: IKEA Housebuilding project Product: Keyless acces IKEA has decided to The Dutch company The Keyless access from challenge its own SUPERLOFTS focusing on SKEPP offers employees the concept to open a store modular loft design where opportunity to work more without parking places customers can compose their flexibly.