Welcome to INNOVATION, IDSA’s quarterly and one of the best places to learn about the practice of industrial design. Every issue of INNOVATION reaches IDSA’s membership, Fortune 500 companies, universities, associations, design consultancies and subscribers around the world.
The Spring 2015 INNOVATION explores the hand. Over 95% of all the products we interface with daily involve the use of our hands in some way… We use our anatomic tools to pull, twist, grip, pinch, move, steer, hold, squeeze, turn, lift, scratch, slide, tighten, bend, tap, and open, among other things. But how do we know when to use two, three, four or five fingers? How do sense and control our hands and fingers to type an email or suture small vessels when the brain needs to control numerous floating joints affording multiple degrees of freedom? How do we sense textures, surfaces and materials? How do our hands age and how does this impact our ability to perform day-to-day tasks? This special issue of INNOVATION delves into all things related to designing products that are seamless extensions of our hands and mind.
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Here is the Table of Contents for the Spring 2015 issue, guest edited by Bryce Rutter, PhD, IDSA of Metaphase Design, that focuses on the Hand. Articles highlighted in red are available to anyone as PDFs.
THE HAND
Welcome to the Hand by Dr. Bryce Rutter, IDSA
The Human Hand by Bryce Rutter, PhD, IDSA
A Hand Is Worth a Thousand Words by Paul Earle
How Your Hands Don’t Work by Dan Formosa, PhD
The Development of Hand Grasping Behavior Mary J. Carlton, PhD and Les G. Carlton, PhD
The Aging Hand Needs a Hand by David Cowan
Attacking Arthritis: Human Performance-Based Consumer Product Evaluations to Support Accessible Design by Brad Fain, PhD
What Separates Us: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Practitioners by Keith S. Karn, PhD
Talk, Listen, Test, Repeat: Putting the User First by Laura Joss, PhD
Design Principles for Handheld Packaging by Peter Clarke, IDSA
Aging Hands & Minds: Designing Hearing Aids by Eunji Park and Stephanie Morgan
Driven by User Comfort: Surgical Tool Design by Alan Mudd
Do You Actually Use Your Hands to Shovel Snow? by Stephen B. Wilcox, PhD, FIDSA
Get a [Comfortable] Grip!: Human Factors Considerations When Designing Handheld Medical Devices by Michael Wiklund
IN EVERY ISSUE
IDSA HQ by Daniel Martinage, CAE
From the Editor by Mark Dziersk, FIDSA
Book Review by Leigh Wasson
Showcase
Design Defined by Gina Signorella
Letter to the Editor
Beautility by Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA
A Look Back by Carroll Gantz, FIDSA