Wheelchair Dorm Room Work Desk#
A participant-facing assistive-design brief for a manually operated dorm-room desk that alternates between desk and stowed states.
See Text Problem Catalog for the text family index.
Quick Facts#
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text |
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Taxonomy#
- Formulation
textual_prompt
- Is Dynamic
no
- Orientation
assistive-design
- Objective Mode
qualitative
- Constraint Nature
embedded-constraints
- Tags
text,human-subjects,ideation,accessibility,furniture,space-saving,asme- Deliverable Type
concepts
- Timebox Hint (Minutes)
30
- Participants
individual
- Evaluation Mode
requirement-coverage
Statement#
Emily is a freshman at Clemson University. She suffered an accident at age 10 which left her in a wheelchair. According to Clemson University, undergraduate students are required to stay on campus their freshman year. Because of the rule, Emily will be staying in a dorm room on campus for the first year of her university career. Due to her disability and limited space in a dorm room, she has asked Clemson University to design a desk that will be able to alternate position and save space in the room. Having an ability to manipulate the desk to provide more surface area in the room will help Emily be safe and will be easy for her to navigate the room.
She would like the desk to:
have 2 states, desk state and non-desk state
be manually operated
take less than 10 seconds to go from state A to state B
include a storage system for commonly used office supplies
cost less than 100 dollars
Prompt Profile#
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Value |
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Deliverable Type |
concepts |
Timebox Hint (Minutes) |
30 |
Participants |
individual |
Evaluation Mode |
requirement-coverage |
Sources#
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Patel, Summers, and Karmakar (2021). Influence of Different Representation of Requirements on Idea Generation: An Experimental Study. ASME IDETC/CIE 2021, DETC2021-70805. |
Raw Citation Records#
Patel, Akash, Joshua D. Summers, and Sourabh Karmakar (2021). Influence of Different Representation of Requirements on Idea Generation: An Experimental Study. ASME IDETC/CIE 2021, DETC2021-70805.