PORTFOLIOHu Xiaoyi- MASTERHT16 / 8721099

Industrial Design Student

An app for intercultural Communication between foreigners in China and Chinese people

Eric,from New Zealand. He is interested in current China and wants to know more about China.

After a short while,Eric receives many answers from Chinuses users

He found that the star who is indicated as the representative of Chinese beauty is not beautiful, so he asked 'What is the Chinese standard of Beauty' on HelloChina

He has a deeper understanding ofcurrent Chinese culture with on-line communication with Chinese

Scenario

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Persona

Usage Scenario

Sign upStart to enjoy the difference

Information PushingCreat new culture between foreigners and Chinese people

DiscoverCollecting hot questions

Pushing filtered daliy news/articles

Ask questions

Show your interests, allow someonein commons to find you

AnswerThe question list which have not got answers or the questions that are just posted

On-line communicationFind someone who are in common with you

ActivityHelloChina office will organize culture related activities regularly

Users can post their activities

Off-line communicationBring communication to people's real lives

Competitor Analysis

Social appNewa appMagazine appQuora/Zhihu

Niche market

Target users : Foreigners in China

Chinese people

Q&A Platform

Information Push

Daily News

Off-line activities

Comunication

Information access Entertainment

Timeliness

The practice of HelloChina are in process

Temo

December 2014

TEMO is a cage for owners to deliver their pet safely

By Hu Xiaoyi

Keeping warm is very important for animals.

Insight

Experiment

Time: December, Winter

Locarion:Dorm

Temperature:6-8 °C

Expect insulation, an extra heating source in cage can be help for pets to keeping warm

Hamster huddled itself, and tried to use sawdust to cover its body.

After adding warmer pad, it had a good sleep

Inspiration

Warmer Pad

Close Space

Conflict

Vent

Block breathing

Lost heating

Air circulation

Heat preservation

System conflict analysisHowever, if cages need provide warming to pets, here is a system conflict:

TRIZ If a system has to be snow white and pitch black, three generic separation principle can be used:Separation of opposite properties in:

2. Space

1. Time

3. Whole & parts

As a result TRIZ can be applied toresolve the system conflict

Side ViewTop View

Gesture 1

Gesture 2

How to separate heating source and vents to solve the system conflict?

Concepts

HandlesShape

Heating source Vents

My priority was to design a temperature controllable and easy to carry box for preventing pets from harmful environment.

Quick prototypes and some simple test were used for evaluating the concepts, considering thermodynamics, manufacturing, efficiency and aesthetic.

Sketch & Prototyping

Removable heating source

Lock

Vent

Handle

Mobile Toy

Design Rendering

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Install heating source

Open the door

Owners can interact with their pets through the mobile block Ready for

delivery

Put petinto the cage

Mobile Toy

Usage Scenario

2Fe + O2 + 2H2O = 2Fe (OH)22Fe(OH)2 + 2H2O + 3O2 = 4Fe (OH)3

2Fe(OH)3 = Fe2O3 + 3H2O

Non- Woven ClothFirst package for heating source

Heating SourceChemical compound, including inorganic,activated carbon and scrap iron.Heating principle(Same as warmer pad)

Plastic ClothWater and dust proofSecond package of heating source

Plastic foamInsulation work

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Heating Source Material

Temo

In Forest

Deceber 2014

In-forest is a creative space for students's self-improved

By Hu Xiaoyi & Wang Ruotong

ObservationStudents can not self-study attentively, because of noise made by people around.

People cannot speak naturally bacause people arounf are self-study.

Inspriation

Yayoi Kusama Suzhou Garden

Polka dot in 2D & 3D Nature elements in space

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After

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Study &Discussion

area

Restarea

Redesign original speace

Original floor plan

Provide privacy : Individual semi-close rooms in Study & Discussion area

The detials of the rooms were designed by Ruotong Wang

The arrangement the individual rooms in Study & Discussion area

Discussion Room

Discussion Room

Self-study Room

Self-study Room

Provide creatityProvide calmNo distraction

Study &Discussion area

Drawed by Ruotong Wang

Drawed by Ruotong Wang

Rest area

Bamboo

Chinese style stone bridge

Study & Discussion Area

Rest Area

In Forest

ArchimapFor students of architecture, take notes for the architecture you interested in through photo, sound, video and text. Besides, you also can find or share notes with other users

Patchy BearBy Hu Xiaoyi

Provide protection to your cell phone's corners

Provide buffer force to your cell phone when it fall down

horizontally

Provide support to your cell phone when you are

watching vedio

Patchy Bear

Infographic Design

Literature resesarch of my Final Year ProjectChinese aging society

Robust design is an engineering methodology for improving productivity during research with high-quality and low cost. In normal condition, robust design is used in large scale production. However, as an industrial design modules, we try to experience robust design in a customized area. In this case is Erhu production.

Erhu, one kind of the traditional Chinese musical instruments, its production techniques only inherit orally between the Erhu craftsmen. Therefore, there is no systematic basis or theories for contemporary Erhu production, especially in terms of quality control. As a result, the quality between every Erhu would quite differ with each other, even they are produced by one craftsmen with the same material. The uncertainty of its quality cause higher defective rate. The ultimate purpose of quality control is to control the quality of voice. Several factors may influence the Erhu sound, such as volume, tone and pitch. Among these factors, volume have the most measurable evaluation criteria, so we chose it as the factor to be researched for in this study.Robust design methods were used to maximize the volume of Erhu, and verify feasibility of robust design for instrument design.

By Hu Xiaoyi, Li Mengyue, Wang Ruotong and Meng Lingzhi

Robust Design Case study of Erhu

In this experiment, there are four parameters was chosen and three level for each parameter.

2. Length of drum1. The ratio between front area and back area of drum

4. The thickness of the drum board

3. The area of the curve inside drum

MethodologyIdentification of parameters

Top View

Side View

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Drum Resonator

One of wood piece of Drum ResonatorComponents of Erhu

Considering the main aim of robust design is to enlarge the voice of erhu and mainly focus on the loudness, drum is the main part we finally selected. After further research and communication with erhu master and out tutor, we picked 4 experinment parameters. several parameters are found to interact with other. We combined these interacting parameters together and eventually 4 parameters are selected. Levels of each parameter are determined based on its original size.

The temperature and humidity of the air could influence the performance of the Erhu material as it has different stretchiness and elasticity. Different gestures of player also would cause different voice, as well as their habit to the tightness of the strings and hairs. The noises factors would influence the loudness of the voice, which may cause some errors to the final results.

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Front

Back

Back

In our experiments, nine drum resonators with different length, F/B area ratio, thickness and inside curve length should be manufactured.

Preparation of experimental materials

Foam boards were chosen to replace the initial wood structure

of drum. large pieces of foam boards were cut into 5 * 20cm

rectangular boards.

These rectangular boards then are marked according to length, F/B area ratio and thickness for the

next cutting.

Foam boards were polished according to the computers

drawings.

To combine six foam boards into a complete drum resonator, both sides of the boards were cut into

60-degree angles.

Membranes were soaked in cold water about two hours for softening

(Fig. 6). Then the residual meat and fibrous tissue on the softened

membranes were removed.

Truss membranes and drum resonator together with hoop which wrapped by napkin

Completed erhu for testing. Except the drum resonator,

other parts of this erhu are from a wood erhu and remain unchanged in the

experiments.

test

We selected a quiet place for testing. This can reduce the noise from environment. A app, YiLu, was chosen for recording. 9 sets of experimental data and a set of control data were finished.

Experiments data

Factor Effects on Variances Factor Effects on S/N Ratio

Waveform chart

Factor Effects on Mean

Analysis of results

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The results show the length of drum have the biggest effect on loudness and effect on signal/noise ratio. And other three factors have little effect on signal/noise ratio. The parameters of loudest Erhu are:

confirmation experiment Experiment Result

The confirmation test result is similar to the prediction. Therefore the result should be reliable.