Research Recommendations (856)

Carry out implementation studies for Stage 7 of the FLOWS model in partnership with companies or through entrepreneurial initiatives such as incubated ventures and innovation agencies.

Audience:

Researchers, companies, entrepreneurs, incubators

Domain:

Implementation Studies / Market Transfer

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Study the usefulness and viability of the FLOWS model in design education, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as a support instrument for developing solutions from solid waste.

Audience:

Educators, students, curriculum leaders

Domain:

Design Education / FLOWS Model

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Continue future studies using both immersive and semi-immersive Virtual Reality as experimental environments for warning research.

Audience:

Researchers, design scholars, VR labs, safety-communication...

Domain:

VR-Based Warning Research / Experimental Environments

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Extend the research from safety warnings in general to the automotive domain more deeply, building on the study already conducted with traffic simulators and the automotive industry.

Audience:

Researchers, automotive designers, interface designers, indu...

Domain:

Automotive Warning Systems / Applied Safety Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate ways of incorporating warnings into the driver's central field of vision, including projection on the windshield or similar head-up-display solutions.

Audience:

Researchers, automotive-interface designers, engineers

Domain:

Central-Field Warning Displays / HUD

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Conduct further experiments showing how information-design principles can improve multimodal warnings beyond designs based primarily on norms and standards.

Audience:

Researchers, graphic/information designers, safety specialis...

Domain:

Information Design for Multimodal Warnings

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Investigate the aesthetic dimension of warning design by distinguishing the appreciation of static warnings from the appreciation of dynamic or multimodal warnings, especially under constraints of time and attention.

Audience:

Researchers, design theorists, information designers, cognit...

Domain:

Aesthetics of Warnings / Time and Attention

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore additional multisensory and temporal modalities in warning design—such as vibratory, haptic, and movement-based cues—beyond conventional static visual composition.

Audience:

Researchers, interaction designers, engineers, human-factors...

Domain:

Multisensory Warning Design / Temporal Modalities

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Measure dressing-related movement limits in pathology-specific studies and identify average scapular/shoulder-girdle inclination ranges that can support individualized garment pattern adjustments.

Audience:

Apparel Researchers, Patternmakers, Occupational Therapists

Domain:

Apparel Ergonomics / Patternmaking

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the research from upper-body garments to lower-body clothing, considering functional and postural alterations that affect gait and dressing at the lower-body level.

Audience:

Apparel Designers, Rehabilitation Specialists, Inclusive Fas...

Domain:

Lower-Body Clothing / Mobility

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

High

Study male bodies, male dressing routines, and compare male and female dressing processes to identify convergences and divergences relevant for adaptive clothing design.

Audience:

Researchers, Inclusive Fashion Designers, Gender and Body St...

Domain:

Gendered Dressing Practices / Inclusive Apparel

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate how cognitive pathologies and subjective identification needs—such as colour, cut, print, and symbolic identification with garments—should inform clothing design for dependent users.

Audience:

Designers, Dementia-Care Specialists, Gerontology Researcher...

Domain:

Cognitive Impairment / Identity and Clothing

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend adaptive-clothing research to other disabilities and limitations that complicate the relationship between body, movement, and dress, in order to support a more inclusive, democratic, and fair fashion system.

Audience:

Inclusive Fashion Designers, Disability Researchers, Product...

Domain:

Inclusive Fashion / Disability Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Investigate garment comfort during use, pressure points, pattern adequacy, low-friction textile combinations, and improved fastening mechanisms that reduce fine-motor demands.

Audience:

Textile Researchers, Apparel Engineers, Fastening Designers

Domain:

Textiles / Comfort / Fastening Design

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

High

Assess the financial viability and industrial scale-up of adaptive products and services for specific publics, creating pathways for mass-market insertion rather than only niche provision.

Audience:

Manufacturers, Brands, Social Entrepreneurs, Policymakers

Domain:

Market Viability / Industrialization of Inclusive Apparel

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use the magazine K as a starting point for broader investigations into the recent history of Portuguese graphic design and editorial design in the early 1990s.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, editors, curators

Domain:

Portuguese Editorial Design History

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop comparative studies between K and the predecessor publications identified by the thesis—such as Combate, Contraste, Cadernos Politika!, and O Independente—in order to clarify the genealogical network of graphic and editorial references.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, media historians

Domain:

Editorial Genealogy / Comparative Periodicals

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Deepen the theoretical study of postmodern graphic devices in Portuguese editorial design, especially the parergon/framing strategies identified in the thesis.

Audience:

Researchers, design theorists, editorial historians

Domain:

Postmodern Graphic Devices / Parergon

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand research on the appropriation of historical references in Portuguese editorial design, using K as a key case for understanding how postmodern editorial projects mobilized past visual languages.

Audience:

Researchers, curators, design historians

Domain:

Historical Appropriation / Postmodern Editorial Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the waysensing method to other sensory and cognitive conditions—such as blindness and autism—to understand how the sensory-perception evaluation approach must change and how far it can be expanded.

Audience:

Researchers, Accessibility Designers, Health-Service Designe...

Domain:

Inclusive Wayfinding / Multisensory Perception

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply the Instrumental Value sensory-evaluation method to other building types—such as museums, citizen-service centers, and day-care centers—and refine it with new parameters plus simpler qualitative and quantitative notation grids.

Audience:

Researchers, Service Designers, Facility Managers

Domain:

Wayfinding Evaluation / Built Environment

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop a best-practices manual for applying the Percept Walk system in spaces used by older adults.

Audience:

Designers, Hospital Administrators, Educators

Domain:

Inclusive Wayfinding / Standards

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Continue studying haptic perception of textures—especially the textures proposed in this thesis—in other locations, with shorter visit cycles but longer evaluation periods.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Accessibility Test Teams

Domain:

Haptic Interface / Mobility

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study and evaluate the readability of digital public-service interfaces—such as information screens—using updated color and typography choices oriented to older adults with reduced visual capacity.

Audience:

Designers, Public-Service Managers, Researchers

Domain:

Digital Accessibility / HCI

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Adopt Museum Retail Design as an integrated, transdisciplinary framework for planning, designing, operating, and continuously updating museum shops as part of the museum’s mission.

Audience:

Museum Directors, Curators, Designers, Researchers

Domain:

Museum Retail Design / Cultural Consumption

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High