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background Objective To emerge with sound global leadership awareness, professional and problem solving abilities within and outside design fields, towards forging a path for a better future.

Biodata Date of Birth: 26th of September, 1984 Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Nationality: Nigerian

Education Ÿ PhD in Science of Design (Kansei Science), August 2015

Kansei, Behavioral and Brain Sciences,Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba,Japan. Ÿ M.Tech in Industrial Design,August 2011

Industrial Design Department, School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Ÿ B.Tech in Industrial Design, November 2007

Industrial Design Department, School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.

Field of Professional Expertise

Industrial Design, Ceramics, Science of Design, Craft Design.

Interests Product Design, Ceramics, Social Entrepreneurship, Design for Development, Design for the Future, Design Education.

experience Work Experience Ÿ Instructor, Robotics International English School (Robins), Tsukuba-shi,

Ibaraki-ken, Japan.

April 2015 to date Ÿ Teaching Assistant, Kansei, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of

Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan.

2013 Academic session Ÿ Graduate/ Research Assistant, Industrial Design Department

Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria March 2009- August 2011 Ÿ Teacher (National Youth Service Corp), Government Secondary School,

Awards Ÿ Graduate Scholar Award (Ninth International Conference on Design

Principles and Practices) Common Ground Publishing. March 2015 Ÿ Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Japanese Government Scholarship Award

Recipient Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Government of Japan. October 2011 – March 2015 Ÿ Departmental Prize/ Mr. Babs Fashanu Prize Federal University of

Technology Akure, Nigeria. November 2007 Ÿ Best graduating student, Industrial Design department (Class of 2007)

Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. November 2007 Ÿ Best student prize in Studio Services and Industry, Industrial Design

Fadan-Karshi, Kaduna, Nigeria.

department (Class of 2007) Federal University of Technology, Akure,

March 2009- February 2011

Nigeria. November 2007.

Ÿ Ceramic Studio Assistant (Industrial Trainee), Sweet Art Ceramics, Wasimi,

Osun, Nigeria.

April- September 2006

University Teaching Experience

Skills Ÿ Commendable inquisitiveness; readiness to learn new things; team working;

leadership and Interpersonal skills; Motivation and Creativity. Ÿ Proficiency in computer set-up and operations; sufficient knowledge of

Undergraduate Courses (Industrial Ceramics, History of African Art and

computer software usage for Multimedi; Graphic Design, Web Design,

Design, Computer Aided Design), Department of Industrial Design, Federal

Internet Surfing, Social networking, 2D & 3D Design.

University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.April 2009 – September 2011.

Voluntary Activities Ÿ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Advocacy Club Member, National

Youth Service Corps. April 2008 – March 2009 Ÿ President, Association of African Students, University of Tsukuba.

April 2013 – December 2014 | Civil Rights and Social Action Ÿ Secretary General, Nigerian Union Japan (Kanto Region)

April 2014 – to Date | Civil Rights and Social Action

Ÿ Advanced skills in research, design thinking, pottery-making and studio

ceramics. Ÿ Proficiency in English (advanced), Japanese (conversational) and Yoruba

(advanced) languages.

Hobby Photography; Music (drumming); Reading; Creative crafts (Card design, Origami); Soccer.

publications Thesis Ÿ Design and Construction of an Efficient Wood-Fire Kilns, 2007. B.Tech Thesis,

Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.. Ÿ Developing Computer Aided Ceramics Recipes Using Locally Available Raw Materials

in Nigeria, 2011. M.Tech Thesis, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Ÿ An Investigation into the Cross-Cultural Differences of Aesthetic Value Cognition and

Visio-Semantic Evaluation of Product Designs – Focus on Japan and Nigeria, 2015.

PhD Thesis, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Journal Ÿ Adelabu O. S. & Yamanaka T. (2015) Exploring Cognitive and Perceptual Styles over

Impacts on Ceramic Education in Nigeria. International Journal of Educational and Research, Vol. 1(5), 299-309, 125-138. Ÿ Adelabu O. S., Kashim I. B., Akinbogun T. L. & Alese B. K. (2012). Towards

Developing Computer Aided Ceramic Glaze Recipes Using Locally Available Raw Materials In Nigeria. ASHAKWU Journal of Ceramics, Vol. 9, 88-100. Ÿ Kashim I. B. & Adelabu O. S. (2011). Woodfiring in Nigeria. The Log Book, Ireland,

Issue 48. Ÿ Adelabu O.S. & Idowu S. (2011). Pursuit of Industrial Design Career in Nigeria: An

Appraisal of the Current Trend. Design Review: Journal of Industrial Design, Vol. 1 (2), 1-9. Ÿ Kashim I. B. & Adelabu O. S. (2010). The Current Emphasis on Science and

Cultural Diversity. - Focus on the African and East Asian Cultures - International

Technology in Nigeria: Dilemmas for Art Education. Leonardo Journal of Art, Science

Journal of Affective Engineering 06/2013; 14(1), 79-84.

and Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press. Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 269–273

Ÿ Adelabu O. S., Kashim I. B. & Akinbogun T. L. (2013) Developing Computer Aided

Ceramic Glaze Recipes Using Local Raw Materials: The Nigerian Experiment.

Advances in Ceramic Science and Engineering 2(3). Ÿ Kashim I. B. & Adelabu O. S. (2013). Ceramics Art Education and Contemporary

Challenges in Nigeria. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 12(2-3), 299309. Ÿ Kashim I. B., Adelabu O. S., Fatuyi S. A., Fadairo O. O. (2013). Bridging the Gap:

Artistry of Felicia Adepelu, Potter of Igbara-Odo, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Critical Intervention: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture 11, 50-64. Ÿ Adelabu O. S., Omole F. K., Ologunwa T. P. (2013). Development and Assessment of a

Locally Designed Fish Smoking Kiln Using Insulating Refractory Materials.

ASHAKWU Journal of Ceramics, Vol. 10. Ÿ Adelabu O. S., Ologunwa T. P. & Akinbogun T. L. (2013). Challenges of Glazed-

Contributions to Book Ÿ Kashim I. B., Ogunduyile S. R. & Adelabu O. S. (2011). Culturally Inspired Design

Education: a Nigerian Case Study. In Abir Mullick (Ed.), Industrial Design – New Frontiers, InTech Open Access Publisher, Croatia, pp 81-98. Ÿ Adelabu O. S. (2012). Advancing Ceramics Glaze Formulation with Existing Software

Technology Using Locally Available Raw Materials in Nigeria. In Wu Fan (Ed.) Advanced Materials Research II, pp 266-270. Ÿ Adelabu O. S. (2012). Documentation, Application and Utilisation of Clay

Minerals in Kaduna State (Nigeria), Clay Minerals in Nature - Their Characterization, Modification and Application, Marta Valaskova (Ed.), InTech Open Access Publisher, Croatia, pp 3-20. Ÿ Adelabu O. S. & Yamanaka T. (2014). Kansei as a Function of Aesthetic

Ceramic Production in Nigeria: From Materials to Methods. ASHAKWU Journal of

Experience in Product Design. In Watada Junzo et.al (Eds.), Industrial

Ceramics, Vol. 10.

Applications of Affective Engineering, Springer International Publishing

Ÿ Kashim I. B. & Adelabu O. S. (2013). Assessment of Ceramics Entreprenuers and their

Switzerland, pp 83-95.

sample works

ceramic design product design graphic design design research

ceramics

Kiln design Prototype Description Target: Design and development of a locally designed fish smoking kiln using insulating refractory materials.

Place: Akure, Nigeria Period: 3months Summary: This is an experimental smoking kiln project developed based on a novel design and built using insulating refractory materials; towards improving the existing fish smoking kiln techniques in Nigeria with performance evaluation for recommendation. The result showed a significant improvement over the existing fish smoking kiln solutions.

Development and testing

ceramics

Glaze design Description

Glaze formulation interface

Target: Ceramics glaze formulation with existing software technology using locally available raw materials in japan.

Place: Ceramic studio, University of Tsukuba Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Saito Toshiju Period: 1months Summary This is a glaze experimentation process using mostly available Japanese raw materials and accomplishing the glaze formulation with Matrix2000 glaze software. The availability of the materials' chemical analysis did enable a glaze formulation process with an analytical approach.

Glaze application and testing on claywares

Glaze tests

product design

KOLLORO (Coins keep) Description

Conceptual exploration

Design gap: A better way to stock, organise and keep coin money in my house to ease access and eliminate money loss.

The refined gap is to - design a fun-to-use coins holder (from personal to home keep) to create more value for coin money by reducing losses, keeping them organised and improving easy access.

The key user needs were identified as follows: Devicing a convenient way of handling coin money Caring for children safety (protection from accidental swallow) Protecting the historical value of coin money Creating pleasurable experience in coin money keeping Redesigning the traditional concept of coin money bank

Concept selection

Prototype Modeling

project site: http://femmysamuel.wix.com/wxyz

graphic design

book design Summary book of international colloquium on kansei and design (2013)

A Framework of User Experience in Product Design ORTÍZ NICOLÁS Juan Carlos Lecturer of User Experience, National University of Mexico, Mexico Over recent years the body of literature on user experience has constantly increased delivering new theories, models, and frameworks. However, this literature is disjoint and fails to provide a clear and concise overview of the most influential aspects of user experience. Unconnected theories represent a drawback for research because complementary or overlapping ideas from different authors are not linked (Crilly, Maier & Clarkson 2008). Two negative outcomes of this situation are that some concepts may be overlooked and relevant features may be absent from a general perspective. This text is a summary of the analysis, comparison, and synthesis of ten perspectives on user experience and product design that have been published in recent years. The reviewed literature and the complete analysis and synthesis is in (Ortíz Nicolás, 2014) 1. User Experience in Product Design Based on the analysis of ten reviewed frameworks, six properties of user experience and four constituent elements were identified. These are explained next.

1.1 Properties of user experience During data analysis six properties of user experience emerged, namely subjective, conscious, intentional, emotional, interconnected, and dynamic.

Subjective Experience is influenced by feelings, tastes and thoughts resulting from our personal way of living an event. As a consequence, each person lives his or her own experience and determines what is significant about it.

Conscious Experience is focused on conscious events, those that the user is aware of and related to what the person is living, feeling, and sensing, as a result of the humanproduct interaction.

Intentional Experience is intentional because users have motivations and goals when interacting with products.

It is well known that pleasant experiences with products emerge when products are aligned with users' intentions.

Emotional In specific user experience is regulated by emotions, positive and negative, which play a central role in holding the experience, as well as, in categorizing it as pleasant or unpleasant.

Description

Interconnected User experience emerges from the interplay of cognition, affection, sensory input, behavior, and all the other systems that humans rely on. Therefore, it has to be understood, researched, and explained making reference to the human as a whole.

Dynamic Experience is dynamic, always evolving, scalable, cumulative, and provisional. More so, it develops over time and, as it does, it enriches permanently. To illustrate the dynamic nature of user experience we now explain in detail the difference between the concepts of: 1) experience, 2) experiencing, and 3) accumulative experience.

Experience refers to the bulk of experiences that we gather in life.

Experiencing refers to the specific moment in which the user-product interaction occurs. It is the period in which a user makes sense of the experience.

Accumulative experience is the sum of experiencing episodes in which the users live the experience. It contributes to forming an overall evaluation of a product over time, e.g. from the purchase day until present.

Experiencing and accumulative experiences continually evolve. Dewey in McCarthy & Wright (2004) calls this the principle of continuity of experience, which means that every experience takes up something from those which have gone before and modifies the quality of those which come after.

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Emotional Design for Personalities

Description

Connecting

design research

lPersonality - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.

Personality is the platform for emotion. lCan emotional design be personalized?

Personalities TamuraMIND x Samuel 15%

Extraverted

73%

Research process 16 Personality Test

Introverted

ENERGY 14%

Intuitive

Observant

37%

NATURE 21%

Thinking

Sampling of favorite objects

Feeling

54%

TACTICS 21%

Judging

Prospecting

30%

IDENTITY 16%

Assertive

48%

Generation of kansei words

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Sampling of new objects

Logistician (ISTJ-T)

Adventurer (ISFP-T)

(ISTJ- introversion, sensing, thinking, judgment)

(ISFP- Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving)

honest and direct calm and practical very responsible

artistically inclined empathetic introspective

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Analysis and result J

P Study inspired by 16personalities: Adapted from http://www.16personalities.com

project proposals

culvergence craftics creating with kids

'Femi Samuel Adelabu Mob. +81. 080 4616 6745 Mail. femmylab@kansei.tsukuba.ac.jp femmysamuel@gmail.com Url. http://femmylab.com/

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