CONSIDERING USER'S IMPACT IN VALIDATION ACTIVITIES – AN APPROACH FOR THE DETERMINATION OF REQUIREMENTS
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Frederico Rotini
Author: Pinner, Tobias; Jost, Franz; Schmid, Daniel; Albers, Albert
Series: ICED
Institution: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Section: Design Methods and Tools - part 1
Page(s): 051-062
ISBN: 978-1-904670-68-1
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
Validation activities use virtual and physical validation models within a validation setup. In practice, a human user influences the product's functions and the overall user experience. Certain validation setups consider this user-evoked influence. Therefore, a suitable user model is required, as well as an interface system that supplies the model based user input to the systems under validation. This paper presents an approach to support the designer in the definition of requirements for interface systems that transform virtual user models into physical actions. A system’s analysis approach supports the designer in identifying the relevant user input to a technical system on the test bench. A descriptive model for interface systems supports a common understanding of these systems and helps to raise their modularity and adaptability. The manual gear-shifting process is the application example within this paper. A generic gear-shifting model is presented. This model is part of a shifting robot that transforms a virtual model input into the physical shifting action.
Keywords: Design Methodology, Requirements, Product Modelling, Mechatronics, Validation