A Study on the Feature Elements of Serial Products - Using Harley-Davidson Motorcycle as Example

• Main Authors: Gao, Shang-Wei, 高上偉
• Other Authors: Young, Min-Jho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48074543978238361840

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 設計暨藝術學院碩士班 === 98 === This research aimed to investigate the shape similarity among Harley-Davidson motorcycles and tried to identify the major feature elements contributing to that. Study was conducted in two stages, in the first stage eleven Harley-Davidson motorcycles were evaluated by eighty subjects for shape similarity among them. Multidimensional scaling analysis（MDS）was then employed to analyze the evaluation results. It shows that the 11 Harley-Davidson motorcycles can be categorized into three main groups. In the second stage, five pairs of motorcycle, four inter-group pairs and six intra-group pairs, were chosen for identifying and depicting feature elements contributing most to pair similarity. The results show that the fork angle, exhaust pipe, fuel tank,double-cylinder engine, and seat height are the major feature elements contributing to shape similarities.