A Study on the Product Forms of Feature Recognition and Category Identification – A Case Study of Mobile Phone

• Main Authors: Jian-Ming Wu, 吳健銘
• Other Authors: Wuefay Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59681495168758048311

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 工業設計系碩士班 === 93 === As the decreasing time of product development cycle, there are numerous products in everyday life. However, product forms are closely associated with people’s recognition and styling cognition. People rely on their learning and former experience to categorize products, and interact with them. For the reason of this, this research aims to investigate the relationship between form features and category identification. This research takes mobile phone for example, which is well-known by people. Through morphological analysis to extract the important features, and their typical forms. Then, using CAD software to create samples for later experiments. This research includes two experiments. Experiment 1 is focusing on the influence of form features to categorization, and to analyze the criteria of category that subjects depended on. Experiment 2 is concerned about the similarities between each sample, and based on General Context Model to compare with the results in experiment 1. The results of these experiments are described as follows: 1.The criteria of category that subjects adopted are different from their backgrounds. Both designers and non-designers presented as weak version of holistic processor, but designers are likely affected by single-dimension rule. 2.Because of different learning and viewpoints, designers and non-designers show different attention and weight on each feature. 3.The inference in General Context Model about categorization is agree with holistic processor, but not suitable for single-dimension rule processor.