Towards Hyper-Openness -Transforming Vacant Office Building By Applying Hyper-Open Building System

Conventional buildings, due to their inflexibility and permanence, can hardly stay in a high quality and being adaptive to changing demand during their life span. Historically, some architectural innovations such as Open Building System practiced the notion of building flexibility. However, the customizing freedom of Open Building System is only...

The Secret Ingredients of Cooking: Design research of desirable kitchen appliances for Chinese market

The secret ingredients of cooking in this research indicates user’s emotional value, it represents user’s affective expectation to a cooking experience as well as influencing the judgment on the product and the user experience. The main question of this study is that what are Chinese customers’ emotional values during their cooking experience....