Industrial Design Masters Projects
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Recent Submissions
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Demonstrating greater sustainability while maintaining desirability of plush dog toys through life cycle assessments and dog owner participation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-30)Every year, an estimated 634 million dog toys end up in our landfills, which is equivalent to 40,500 tons of waste. These numbers are a result of planned obsolescence due to their short life cycles. Pet businesses induce ... -
Electric Bidet Controls for Older Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-03)Bidet controls represent the capabilities of bidet seats. However, current bidet controls are difficult to operate, graphically confusing, and unintuitive. The purpose of this project is find a usable and useful solution ... -
Exploring modularity in physical therapy: The development of a novel modular recovery tool
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The aim of this project was to answer the question: Is modularity valuable in a physical therapy setting? Physical therapy happens in a myriad of ways. Numerous tools, interventions, and methods exist to improve health and ... -
Exploring the Challenges and Designing Potential Solutions for Insulin Pump Technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-31)This study examines the current technology of diabetes management devices, primarily insulin pumps. Insulin pumps are effective tools for the precise control of glucose levels, for type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients. Many ... -
CycSight: Designing a Haptic Wristband With a Detachable Radar to Improve Hearing-Impaired Cyclists' Road Safety
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The hearing-impaired group is a very important part of our society. According to WHO, over 5% of our populations have disabling hearing loss. To those people who love cycling, the loss of hearing makes them more exposed ... -
Interaction Design and Product Design of IoT Kitchen Central Hub for North American Market
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07)Kitchen is an essential place in our home for food preparation, cooking and having fun activities. According to the market research report from Grand View Research (2015), the global smart kitchen appliances market is ... -
Examining Virtual Reality As An Empathizing Tool For Early Ideation Stage in Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)Whenever there is a new design project to undertake, one of the first and most important steps is to empathize and immerse oneself into the design brief early in the design process in order to gain a better understanding ... -
Temperature Controlled Transport of Vaccines by Drone In Developing Countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05)According to the World Health Organization, vaccines must be transported within a temperature window of 2C to 8C. Much of the world's population does not have access to all season roads. Mountainous regions and regions ... -
Community by Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014)Principles of community based participatory research (CBPR) were applied in the field of design to create an avenue to encourage and allow more community input in the design process. Communities are diverse, each with ... -
Microwave Oven Concept Design for Older Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014)Microwave ovens can be used to perform varied cooking and food preparation related tasks with greater efficiency and convenience than traditional cooktops and ovens. Microwave ovens have been highly adopted by older ... -
Easing Transitions: Service Design for Older Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013)The transition into a retirement community for older adults can be a time of great stress, leading to social isolation, loneliness and loss of meaning. To reduce this stress associated with the transition process, a feeling ... -
Project [viaStation]: Empowering New User Access to Bike-Shares in Smaller Markets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013)In November of 2011, Georgia Tech welcomed its first automated bike-sharing service. Since then the founders at viaCycle have continued to expand and improve their platform. However, after opting against on-site kiosks ... -
Howtorecycle.it: Designing a System to Empower Consumers to Become More Involved in the End-of-Life of Commodity-Grade Appliances
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013)The United States currently recycles only 34% of the municipal waste that it produces, with some materials such as plastics having only a 7.6% rate of recycling (EPA 2011). Two contributors to low recycling rates are ... -
Smart Cooking Tools: A Study of the Design & Development of Sensor-Based, Internet-Connected Devices for Cooking
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013)For the past 50 years, appliance design has been chasing efficiency. For more and more consumers, cooking has gone from a chore to a pleasure. Consumers now yearn for kitchen products that enhance the joy and camaraderie ... -
Design & Technologies for Facilitating Events in Retirement Communities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012)Great opportunity lies in designing products for the elderly due to the fact that the users, the people users interact with, and their environments cause problems which could be solved with design that is tailored to ... -
PiKo+ : Promoting adherence to daily PEFR measurement by college students with asthma
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012)Description of the development of a keychain size device for detecting peak expiratory flow for assessing and monitoring asthma severity and asthma control. -
Design of Backpacking Tent Accessories through the Lens of Wilderness Medicine
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012)Wilderness medicine is a practice that focuses on medical incidents such as the cuts, stings, sprains, and bruises can happen at any time when participating in outdoor recreation. While these medical events would often ... -
Bicycle Commuting: Design of a Device to Increase Female Ridership in Atlanta Using V2V Technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012)Statistics indicate that there is a significant discrepancy between the amount of males and the amount of females who choose to commute by bicycle to work. Of all bicycle-commuting trips to work within Atlanta, 78% of ... -
A Process to Apply Hardwood Pallets as Viable Raw Material for Furniture Making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012)Considering the abundance of wood pallets in today’s manufacturing and distribution system, the reckless disposal of pallets calls for a sustainable disposal solution to better utilize the pallets and conserve resources. ... -
A Framework for Cross-cultural Product Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012)In the modern globalized marketplace, industrial designers and consumer product companies are being challenged with cross-cultural design situations. While designers have the tools and instinct to produce culturally relevant ...
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