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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Transactions ID Number: 52-340
Full Name: Denis Coelho
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Address: Dept. Electromechancial Eng., univ. Beiora interior, 6201-001 Covilha
Country: PORTUGAL
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Title of the Paper: Methodology for analysis of the feasibility of application of an emerging technology to a product
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Filipe Corda, Denis Coelho
Email addresses of all the authors: filipeaacorda@gmail.com, denis.a.coelho@gmail.com
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: The aim of the study reported in this paper was to undertake a study about the influence of technology in the form of products that incorporate technology, using a standard methodology developed for this purpose. Examples of products and their shape changes over time were analyzed, to understand the extent to which these changes are consequences of the developments in technology. A review of the evolution of form, taking into account the technology of a selected range of consumer products that incorporate technology, with the aim of deconstructing archetypes that are fixed and propose new ideas was accomplished. In particular, a range of technologies that are foreseen for the future were considered. Selecting specific cases of products, from a historical perspective, one can see what have been the determinants of their shape, which led to the establishment of their archetypal form. A comparative methodology was developed, in order to "decode" the role of technology!
as a determinant of the shape of products. Understanding the importance of technology as a modeling influence for products' form, what role this has in the consumer society, and what is its responsibility as a major element in the deconstruction of the archetypes of form is intended in this study. The influence of technology in the transformation of products is demonstrated, considering three distinct types of alterations caused by changes in technology, in a tripartite view, which focuses on: product changes, in the cases where technological change leads to a radical change of product form; product change, if technological change is not reflected so much in the change of form, but rather in the performance and the yield of the product; and, ultimately, change in the product in the event of technological change leading to a deconstruction of the product as an object. It is emphasized that the product as a physical object may disappear or may be dissolved in the environment!
or the architecture, with the advent of emerging technologies and the
ir new capabilities that will certainly cause changes in the shape of products.
Keywords: Change of form, Evolutionary perspective, Deconstruction of archetypes, Future concepts, Emerging technologies, Comparison methodology
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