Research Recommendations (848)

Strengthen future applications of the model by increasing respondent representativeness, collecting more institutional data, recoding weak items, controlling missing values, and applying multivariate statistics to detect latent dimensions.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Evaluation / Measurement

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Study in greater depth the subjective and emotional elements of institutional identity that can be transformed into communicable values, including which graphic elements should be integrated, reinforced, or suppressed and how they circulate in the collective imaginary.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Brand Meaning / Semiotics

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Implement rigorous, Director de Design-led programs that map the full circuit of institutional actions and communications and coordinate identity, graphic-brand management, and image strategy around public experience.

Audience:

Org Leaders, Designers

Domain:

Design Governance / Institutional Strategy

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Conduct more detailed studies of institutional graphic identification elements—names, typography, logotypes, symbols, and colors—covering their functions, quality parameters, and the conditions required for more efficient management.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Educators

Domain:

Graphic Identity / Quality Assessment

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Conduct a comparative study and classify new 21st-century typefaces according to legibility characteristics, especially beyond the canonical references such as Futura and Helvetica.

Audience:

Researchers, Type Designers, Educators

Domain:

Typography / Legibility Assessment

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Study which typefaces can be classified as Inclusive Typography, that is, which ones best respond to the needs of people with reduced or aged vision.

Audience:

Researchers, Type Designers, Educators, Accessibility Specia...

Domain:

Inclusive Typography / Accessibility

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate colour perception and gender in more depth, since the thesis notes that there is still little research on this relationship.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Colour Perception / Gender

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

High

Develop the Inspædia prototype into an online platform through web engineering and interaction design, and recruit specialist collaborators with know-how in interactive surfaces, augmented reality, hologram projection, and virtual exhibitions.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Developers

Domain:

Web engineering; interaction design; XR/AR; virtual exhibiti...

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Recruit sponsors and collaborators who recognize the platform’s potential in the knowledge economy, while continuing the research and preparing for future 3D visualization that may require dedicated hardware.

Audience:

Funders, Org Leaders, Researchers

Domain:

Research funding; partnerships; knowledge economy; 3D infras...

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Address copyright and access by creating a simple in-platform rights-payment mechanism (e.g., pay-per-read, pay-per-view, pay-per-listen) and negotiating with institutions that hold relevant content.

Audience:

Platform Owners, Libraries/Archives, Rights Holders

Domain:

Copyright; digital rights management; libraries and archives...

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Establish collective responsibility for the reliability and continuous updating of contents, since platform growth and transformation make content governance critical.

Audience:

Researchers, Curators, Platform Community

Domain:

Content governance; knowledge management; collaborative cura...

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Deepen the propositions advanced in the thesis through further practice-based research and animation projects applied to digital typography.

Audience:

Researchers, Motion Designers, Typographers

Domain:

Kinetic Typography / Motion Semantics

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Apply and test the proposed grammar of movement on emerging screen media such as 3D or stereoscopic cinema and television.

Audience:

Researchers, Motion Designers, Film and Television Designers

Domain:

Screen Media / Stereoscopic Communication

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply and test the grammar of movement on new digital interfaces.

Audience:

UX/UI Designers, Motion Designers, Researchers

Domain:

Digital Interfaces / Interaction Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Adapt product-emotion models and emotion-group instruments to each object type by first studying concrete interpretation possibilities before attempting generalization.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Emotion Measurement / Assistive Product Evaluation

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a product-evaluation framework that integrates conceptual and expressive assessment while remaining simpler to use than Kansei-based approaches.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Product Teams

Domain:

Evaluation Frameworks / Emotional Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Explore clothing proposals that are less typical of a given category, and designs that blur category boundaries, by analysing both differences and shared elements across clothing categories.

Audience:

Researchers, Fashion Designers

Domain:

Fashion Design / Category Innovation

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate geons as low-variability formal elements that can be manipulated to induce innovation in fashion design.

Audience:

Researchers, Fashion Designers

Domain:

Form Perception / Fashion Innovation

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop a “fashion neurodesign” perspective by having designers work from the neurological relations identified in the thesis and evaluating the impact on resulting clothing proposals.

Audience:

Researchers, Fashion Designers, Educators

Domain:

Neurodesign / Fashion

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Analyse collections by different designers from a neurological / neuroaesthetic perspective in order to expand knowledge in this field.

Audience:

Researchers, Historians, Fashion Analysts

Domain:

Fashion Analysis / Neuroaesthetics

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Pursue targeted studies of colour, novelty, movement of interaction, and processing fluency as especially promising components within fashion neurodesign.

Audience:

Researchers, Fashion Designers

Domain:

Colour / Novelty / Interaction / Fluency

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Extend this neuroscience-informed design approach to senses beyond vision and to other aspects of the human relationship with clothing.

Audience:

Researchers, Fashion Designers

Domain:

Multisensory Fashion Design

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use the importation of neuroscience knowledge into design as a broader research strategy for understanding human behaviour and advancing design inquiry.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Designers

Domain:

Design Research Strategy / Neuroscience Transfer

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Optimize the needle-punched nonwoven production process so the new supports achieve higher cohesion and resistance—especially by testing higher needle density per surface area and other process adjustments—thereby improving suitability for Castelo Branco embroidery.

Audience:

Researchers, Engineers, Designers

Domain:

Textile Materials / Needle-Punching

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Investigate alternative textile-support technologies—other than conventional woven fabrics and needle-punching—to identify viable bases for applying Castelo Branco embroidery in textile and fashion design.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Alternative Textile Technologies

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium