Research on User Involvement in Automobile Design Development Focusing on the Problems of Design Evaluation

• Published in: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Applications and Services pp. 184 - 192
• Main Authors: Koyama, Noboru, Yamashita, Mikio, Nakajima, Mizuki
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: and design management; panel evaluation; User involvement
• ISBN: 3319078623; 9783319078625
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07863-2_19

The problems of design evaluation and decision-making have been ongoing challenges since design has held a position in industry. The large amounts of development investment in the automotive industry, and the importance of design in ultimate product value, have made the development of systems for evaluation and decision-making urgent topics. However, they have yet to achieve perfection, and are still beset by many problems. In our research on these topics, we have focused our research on user-participatory product design, especially the problems of evaluation and decision-making in the midst of the design development process. This paper discusses the current state of one aspect of these, the panel evaluation system, and looks at the challenges it faces.