Topic 1
Data collected by a user for a specific purpose.
What is Primary Data?
Strategies used to reduce the waste produced by a product or in the production and disposal of a product.
What are Waste Mitigation Strategies?
Data collected by someone other than the user.
What is Secondary Data?
Human body measurements when the subject is still.
What is Static Data?
Data that can be measured and recorded using numbers. Examples include height, shoe size, and fingernail length.
What is Quantitative Data?
A selection of sizes a product is made in that caters for the majority of a market.
What is a Range of Sizes?
natural resources that have been identified in terms of quantity and quality.
What are Reserves?
An economy model in which resources remain in use for as long as possible, from which maximum value is extracted while in use, and the products and materials are recovered and regenerated at the end of the product life cycle.
What is a Circular Economy?
A range that a person can stretch to touch or grasp an object from a specified position.
What is Reach?
A statistical data type that exists on an arbitrary numerical scale where the exact numerical value has no significance other than to rank a set of data points
What is Ordinal Scale?
The way in which something is regarded, understood or interpreted.
What is Perception?
Rebuilding a product so that it is in an “as new” condition, and is generally used in the context of car engines and tyres.
What is Reconditioning?
This is the stage in a product life cycle where the product is no longer needed even though it functions as well as it did when first manufactured.
What is Obsolescence?
That proportion of a population with a dimension at or less than a given value. For a given demographic (gender, race, age), the 50th percentile is the average.
What is Percentile Range?
A person's sense of physical or psychological ease.
What is Comfort?
data based on numeric scales in which we know the order and the exact difference between the values.
What are Interval Scales?
An economy based on the make, use, dispose model.
What is a Linear Economy?
A type of plastic that can be heated and formed into a new shape repeatedly.
What is Thermoplastic?
A measure of the stiffness of an elastic material and defined by stress/strain.
What is Young's Modulus?
A product that serves as a standard of its time, that has been manufactured industrially and has timeless appeal.
What is Classic Design?
How mental processes, (memory, reasoning, motor response and perception), affect the interactions between users and other components of a system.
What are Cognitive Ergonomics?
A design philosophy that considers the environmental effects of a product all of the way from manufacture to disposal.
What is Cradle-to-Grave?
The extent to which a material will return to its original shape after being deformed.
What is Elasticity?
Covering the surface of a material with a thin sheet of another material typically for protection, preservation or aesthetic reasons.
What is Lamination?
The production of large amounts of standardized products on production lines, permitting very high rates of production per worker.
What is Mass Production?