Window Opening Device#
An assistive-design brief for helping elderly nursing-home residents raise and lower stuck double-hung windows without electric power.
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,elderly,household- Deliverable Type
concepts
- Timebox Hint (Minutes)
10
- Participants
individual
- Evaluation Mode
idea_generation
Statement#
Your design team has been approached by Warm Heart Estates, a local nursing home, to design a new product to assist its elderly residents.
The nursing home administrators have noticed that changes in humidity during the summer months cause the windows of the 65-year old building to stick, thus requiring significant amounts of force to raise and lower the window panes. The force required to adjust the windows is often much too large for the nursing home tenants, making it very difficult for them to regulate their room temperature.
Your team has been tasked with designing a device that will assist the elderly tenants with raising and lowering the building’s windows. Since each window is not guaranteed to be located near an electrical socket, this device should not rely on electric power.
The building’s windows are double-hung. The double-hung window consists of an upper and lower sash that slide vertically in separate grooves in the side jambs.
Prompt Profile#
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Value |
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Deliverable Type |
concepts |
Timebox Hint (Minutes) |
10 |
Participants |
individual |
Evaluation Mode |
idea_generation |
Sources#
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Summary |
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Milovanovic, Hu, Shealy, and Gero (2020). Evolution of Brain Network Connectivity in the Prefrontal Cortex During Concept Generation Using Brainstorming for a Design Task. ASME IDETC/CIE 2020, DETC2020-22563. |
Raw Citation Records#
Milovanovic, Julie, Mo Hu, Tripp Shealy, and John Gero (2020). Evolution of Brain Network Connectivity in the Prefrontal Cortex During Concept Generation Using Brainstorming for a Design Task. ASME IDETC/CIE 2020, DETC2020-22563.