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Innovation on Design and Culture (IDC) is a design research journal of the International Institute of Knowledge Innovation and Invention, Singapore (IIKII).IDC provides a platform for experts and scholars to jointly share the latest research and its extensions of humanistic issues. By stimulating creative thinking and design innovations, IDC supports experts and scholars to gain profound knowledge from different perspectives which combines technology, humanities, design, media, entertainment, mu...

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Water is one of the most common substances on earth and an important resource for all living organisms. Since water is more dominant than the land of Indonesia and Taiwan, it is not surprising that water in different realization is embodied in Indonesian and Taiwanese people’s minds. Thus, we aim at investigating how water is conceptualized by Indonesian and Taiwanese with opinions, values, and attitudes toward life in their cultures. Proverbs were collected from written and electronic sources. ...

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The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that affect the use of the baseball game console for hearing impaired learners. The research framework was based on a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and external variables such as social norms, perceived enjoyment, and self-efficacy. Questionnaires were distributed to students at National Taichung School for Hearing Impairment Students. There was a high acceptance rate for using a baseball game console among the hearing impaired students as ...

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The industrial infrastructure in Taiwan has shifted to a service-oriented market. With the implementation of the two-day-a-week holiday, the patterns of people’s consumption have become diversified, which promotes the development of the hotel industry. Therefore, how to improve customer loyalty with experiential marketing, brand image, and customer satisfaction, is an important issue in the hotel industry. The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationship among variables of experiential m...

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Repeated testing, revision, and verification make products have market value and the commercialization of creative ideas reflected in the product. In the model, product and industrial designs present actual cases so that students are trained from scratch to clarify problems, identify needs, establish functional structures, and evaluate the creative design and engineering design. A good design plan includes market and user demand analysis, creative thinking, concept formation, and actual prototyp...

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Robots have been used in neural rehabilitation. As the development of rehabilitation robots has progressed, the functions and designs of robots become to meet the clinical demands. In Taiwan, the proportion of patients and therapists is high. However, rehabilitation with robots is not widespread in Taiwan. By observing the result of a formative test of a novel rehabilitation robot, the reason for that was investigated. For the investigation, interviews were performed to understand the usability,...

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Causal relationship and importance of evaluation factors for purchasing decisions were investigated by taking the kiwifruit bag design as the research object and by using the decision-making laboratory analysis method (DEMATEL). It was found that the three most important evaluation factors before purchasing kiwifruit bags are "beauty" as the influencing factor, "operability" and "durability" as the main factors. Purchasing decisions of Kiwifruit bags are influenced by the three factors. Therefor...