Newsletter nº 4. January 2013 WORK SCHEDULE STATUS Design4children work has entered its later 6-month phase accomplishing its working schedule. At this point, R1 (Design-Support) and R2 (Virtual-Tester) are already developed and R3 (PurchaseAdviser) is quite advanced. We have started to prepare the validation phase which all three results will be tested in real conditions with the companies. As a reminder, the results of the project are; R1: The Design Support Software Tool is a knowledge based support application for designers. The purpose of this application is to provide information for designers to help them with product design. This application will aid the designer to introduce enhanced functionality to products and assure children’s comfort and wellbeing. R2: The core of the Virtual-Tester consists in a virtual dynamic mannequin allowing the designer to define the different childcare products in intimate contact with children’s body. Such mannequin will include anthropometrical criteria for fitting, with dynamic properties allowing anthropometric variations (due to age and morph type), movements performed of each developmental stage and environmental conditions to evaluate thermal comfort. R3: This software consists of a database crossed by a flux of information. Manufacturers, experts, customers and retailers feed the database and use the software. The information gathered can be used by; Customers when buying the products, retailers to serve better to the customers, manufacturers to improve their products. For more information visit our webpage: http://www.design4children.eu/ For more information please contact the project coordinators: José Olaso: jose.olaso@ibv.upv.es or Luis Ballester : lballester@asepri.es
PAEDIATRICS FOUCUS GROUPS SESSIONS A workshop with paediatrics took place during September 2012. The objective was to obtain a general and detailed overview of paediatrics’ opinion regarding Design4Children targeted products: clothing, footwear and childcare products. With that aim, fifteen paediatrics participated in a controlled design of experiments. The tasks developed consisted in three parallel focus groups sessions in which paediatrics were presented different set of products/situations (by means of pictures, collages, etc.) to elicit their response/opinion. The audio and video of the sessions was recorded to later extract worthy information. This information was used to improve and enhance the validity of Design4children results regarding product design, product interaction with the final user (parents and children), as well as retailers and designers. These sessions took place in IBV’s facilities with ASEIP’s collaboration. Form more information please contact: José Olaso: jose.olaso@ibv.upv.es or diez jav@gva.es Newsletter nº 4 – January 2013
DISSEMINATION OF DESIGN 4 CHILDREN AMONG DESIGNERS AND SMES January and February are traditionally two important months in Children Fashion Fairs. In 2013 it should be noted the “Pitti Immagine Bimbo” children fashion and childcare fashion fair, that will take place in Florence between the 17th and 20th of January, “FIMI” and “Cero a Cuatro”, celebrating their 76th and 25th edition respectively, which will take place in Valencia from the 25th to the 27th of January, and “CPM Moscow” fashion fair with the important “CPM Kids” which will be celebrated in the Russian capital between the 26th of February and the 1st of March. Children’s Fashion Europe and ASEPRI will be attending these fairs and will have the opportunity to promote Design 4 Children project and disseminate its results to a wide public of stakeholders. For more information on these activities please contact: Alejandra Villalba: cfe3@childrensfahsioneurope.com Lores Segura: lores@asepri.es
PROJECT MEETINGS The past 25th and 26th of September took place in Rome our 4th project meeting in which the consortium reviewed the technical progress of the project and proposed the strategy to follow in the next, and last year, as well as making important advances in the exploitation strategy that will follow after the end of the project, and which will be decisive in facilitating the project results to the interested stakeholders.
Next project meeting will take place in ISRI’s facilities in Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom. This meeting will be very important in the start of the Pilot and the determination of the post-project continuation.
PILOT IMPLEMENTATION As part of the project is scheduled to conduct a impementación so that its results can be conceived as products usable by enterprises. For this purpose, consortium members ISRI, MKL and IBV will work together with SMEs Bebedue, Bravotex and Kolev to improve the tools and ensure their proper implementation in the production design process. We will inform of this process in next communications, or you can contact us for more information.
Newsletter nº 4 – January 2013