Seeing the Hidden Needs : An Analysis on Elementary School Student''s Deep Metaphor on Disaster Escaping System for Campus

• Main Authors: Yuan-Tai Chiu 邱元泰, 邱元泰
• Other Authors: Hung-Hsiang Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p7qy57

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 創新設計研究所 === 102 === As earthquake strikes Taiwan every year, it’s important to give children knowledge of disaster prevention since elementary education. Although it’s common to have disaster prevention practice and class in school, the children (users) rarely involves the development process of it. The purpose of study is to let children find out what they need by storytelling method and develop the prevention system together in order to design a new system meeting needs of users by introducing ZMET (Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique) and Participatory Design. At first stage, students from two elementary schools of Taipei are involved, their expectations for disaster prevention system are revealed by ZMET. At second stage, Participatory Design is introduced, students are brought into process and propose their own concepts then validate them. The conclusion we come to includes five factors: 1.Shelter 2.Escape 3.Survive 4.Porteble 5.Information. These five are design guidelines for disaster prevention system or related. The system design based on the needs of user make children are willing to interact with it and learn knowledge about disaster prevention from the experience. When disaster strikes, students are able to self-secure calmly and independently, then system will provide the information to safe places for shelter.