Authors
Bryan C Watson, Cassandra Telenko
Publication date
2019/8/18
Conference
International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Volume
59186
Pages
V02AT03A012
Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Description
Product service systems (PSS), such as DVD rental stations or the subway, face a unique problem slowing their adoption and growth: they are uniquely dependent upon timely or expensive user data for system planning, yet user datasets are only accurate for a small part of the entire PSS. Thus, methods to use the available data effectively and use data collected in one portion of a PSS for system design in another portion could transform PSS design. PSS allow customers to purchase use of a product rather than the product itself, resulting in improved environmental sustainability. The central question examined by this work is: how can designers compensate for situations where the design environment has changed and limited user data is available to inform demand estimations? Our hypothesis is that publicly available socio-demographic and environmental variables can be used to estimate the demand …
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