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About: IDEO is a company organization based out in San Francisco, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: User experience design & Context (language use). The organization has 166 authors who have published 144 publications receiving 5380 citations. The organization is also known as: international design and consulting firm.

Experience prototyping

Abstract: In this paper, we describe "Experience Prototyping" as a form of prototyping that enables design team members, users and clients to gain first-hand appreciation of existing or future conditions through active engagement with prototypes. We use examples from commercial design projects to illustrate the value of such prototypes in three critical design activities: understanding existing experiences, exploring design ideas and in communicating design concepts.

Critical review of state of health estimation methods of Li-ion batteries for real applications

Abstract: Lithium-ion battery packs in hybrid and electric vehicles, as well as in other traction applications, are always equipped with a Battery Management System (BMS). The BMS consists of hardware and software for battery management including, among others, algorithms determining battery states. The accurate and reliable State of Health (SOH) estimation is a challenging issue and it is a core factor of a battery energy storage system. In this paper, battery SOH monitoring methods are reviewed. To this end, different scientific and technical literature is studied and the respective approaches are classified in specific groups. The groups are organized in terms of the way the method is carried out: Experimental Techniques or Adaptive Models. Not only strengths and weaknesses for the use in online BMS applications are reviewed but also their accuracy and precision is studied. At the end of the document a potential, new and promising via in order to develop a methodology to estimate the SOH in real applications is detailed.

Good Vibrations: Tactile Feedback in Support of Attention Allocation and Human-Automation Coordination in Event-Driven Domains

Abstract: Observed breakdowns in human-machine communication can be explained, in part, by the nature of current automation feedback, which relies heavily on focal visual attention. Such feedback is not well suited for capturing attention in case of unexpected changes and events or for supporting the parallel processing of large amounts of data in complex domains. As suggested by multiple-resource theory, one possible solution to this problem is to distribute information across various sensory modalities. A simulator study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of visual, tactile, and redundant visual and tactile cues for indicating unexpected changes in the status of an automated cockpit system. Both tactile conditions resulted in higher detection rates for, and faster response times to, uncommanded mode transitions. Tactile feedback did not interfere with, nor was its effectiveness affected by, the performance of concurrent visual tasks. The observed improvement in task-sharing performance indicates that the introduction of tactile feedback is a promising avenue toward better supporting human-machine communication in event-driven, information-rich domains.

System and method for synchronization of image data between a handheld device and a computer

Abstract: A system and method providing a conduit (310) between a handheld electronic device (120), such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a remote storage unit (110), such as a personal computer (PC) hard drive, allowing a user to transfer images captured by an image capture device (124) attached to the handheld electronic device (120) and synchronize the data between the handheld electronic device (120) and the remote storage unit (110) in a manner that is easy, intuitive and useful, is disclosed. In its preferred embodiment, the conduit (310) of the present invention is a software program that is installed into the standard sync manager (230) of a computer, providing seamless synchronization between a PDA and the computer without the need for user interaction.