Wheelchair Peach Picking#

A participant-facing ASME ideation brief about helping a wheelchair user pick peaches with family while avoiding fruit damage.

See Text Problem Catalog for the text family index.

Quick Facts#

Field

Value

Problem ID

ideation_wheelchair_peach_picking

Problem Family

text

Implementation

TextProblem

Capabilities

citation-backed, prompt-packet, statement-markdown

Study Suitability

human-subjects-ready, ideation-friendly, requirements-study-ready

Tags

text, human-subjects, ideation, accessibility, agriculture, asme

Taxonomy#

Formulation

textual_prompt

Is Dynamic

no

Orientation

assistive-design

Objective Mode

qualitative

Constraint Nature

embedded-constraints

Tags

text, human-subjects, ideation, accessibility, agriculture, asme

Deliverable Type

concepts

Timebox Hint (Minutes)

30

Participants

individual

Evaluation Mode

requirement-coverage

Statement#

Emma is a 19-year-old mechanical engineering student at Clemson. She suffered a car accident couple of years back which left her in a wheelchair. Before the accident Emma loved the outdoors and picking fruits with her family. During the next summer break, she and her family have decided to go picking peaches. Since she is in a wheelchair, she has a limited range of reach, especially for height. Due to this limitation, she cannot experience the pleasure of picking peaches with her family. For her 20th birthday her family has decided to surprise her with a device that will help her pick peaches while in a wheelchair.

The family has asked Clemson University to help design a device that will allow Emma, who is in a wheelchair, to experience the joy of picking peaches from the tree with her whole family.

The family would like the device to:

  • be manually operated

  • be attached to the wheelchair

  • not damage the fruit

  • keep the fruit from falling on the ground while picking

  • cost no more than 100 dollars

Prompt Profile#

Field

Value

Deliverable Type

concepts

Timebox Hint (Minutes)

30

Participants

individual

Evaluation Mode

requirement-coverage

Sources#

Key

Summary

joshi_summers_2014

Joshi and Summers (2014). Impact of Requirements Elicitation Activity on Idea Generation: A Designer Study.

patel_summers_karmakar_2021

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#

Joshi and Summers (2014). Impact of Requirements Elicitation Activity on Idea Generation: A Designer Study. ASME IDETC/CIE. DOI: 10.1115/DETC2014-35022.
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.