Overview
- Presents a new approach to designing innovative systems focusing on the benefits of inconvenience
- Consists of design theories and examples in the fields of product design, service design, and others
- Shows which inconveniences bring which benefits
Part of the book series: Translational Systems Sciences (TSS, volume 31)
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This book is about the "benefits of inconvenience (BoI)", providing a new approach to designing innovative systems and opening an alternative viewpoint to readers for looking at the world. BoI says that convenient living has “black boxed” the processes we used to rely on, while BoI is about looking at the benefits that were originally provided by these actions that have been black-boxed. Consider the relationship between humans and artificial objects, or things, newly created by engineering technology. In the past, things were “extensions” of people, but before we knew it, things began to substitute for people. BoI can be a keyword for thinking about the relationship that should come after “substitution”. It is a principle of systems design, one that requires time and effort rather than being convenient without any bother. Leading system scientists, technology creators, service producers, and product designers have contributed to this volume. In the first half of the book, manyresearchers describe their theory of BoI from the perspectives of systems engineers, value engineers, designers, and innovators. In the second half of the book, examples of implementing BoI are introduced in various fields, such as product design, service design, social robotics, tourism engineering, and human activity support systems. They will support innovations in systems or services. It is generally said that necessity is the mother of invention. In that belief, inconveniences should be eliminated, which can be a motive force for new technological development. On the other hand, this book shows that inconveniences are not something to be eliminated, but, on the contrary, are essential to obtain some benefit, and shows us how to create beneficial inconveniences.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Hiroshi Kawakami is a professor at Kyoto University of Advanced Science, in Japan. He received his Bachelor, Master, and Dr. Eng. degrees from Kyoto University. He started his career at Okayama University as an assistant professor. He joined Kyoto University, where he was an associate professor of Graduate School of Informatics and a program-specific professor of Design Unit. His research interests include systems design, where he has proposed FUBEN-EKI that stands for designing systems based on appreciating "benefits of inconvenience." He received best paper awards of Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineering (1990, 2001, 2013), the Transactions of Human Interface Society (2009, 2018), and Journal of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Systems Design Based on the Benefits of Inconvenience
Editors: Hiroshi Kawakami
Series Title: Translational Systems Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9588-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9587-3Published: 25 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9590-3Published: 26 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-9588-0Published: 24 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2197-8832
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 100
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Management, Industrial Design, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Engineering Design, Interaction Design