An integrated prototyping tool to enhance interdisciplinary communication in smart product design
提出一种低保真集成原型工具，帮助不同设计学科在智能产品开发早期更好地理解和沟通未来产品的交互与环境特性，并通过调查初步验证了其有效性。
The increasing integration of smart products into society is noteworthy in the field of Prospective Ergonomics (PE), as they herald the emergence of novel products featuring yet-to-be-discovered interaction modalities. Literature highlights a lack of front-end prototyping approaches that transcend disciplinary skills and aid communication across diverse design fields, highly relevant in early-stage smart product development. This paper introduces an integrated, low-fidelity prototyping tool to enhance interdisciplinary communication and understanding of future products' interactive and environmental qualities. A survey provides preliminary validation of the integrated tool's format and content. Findings endorse the tool's structure and flexibility in supporting understanding and communication of interactive and environmental qualities of smart product concepts across a range of design disciplines. As such we advance the discourse on PE by envisioning a low-fidelity prototyping tool to create intermediary objects supporting design efforts towards future products and their new and emerging interaction modalities.