Consumer Innovation Laboratory

Overview

The goal of this project is to specify and design a next generation pageturner product. This design is being carried out in collaboration with Maddak, Inc., a rehab manufacturer which currently markets an electromechanical pageturner.

Team Members

Minutes of Meetings (available to ASEL staff)

1995 Meetings

• preliminary meeting (May 31, 1995)
• 2nd meeting (June 7, 1995) Initiate PDS.
• 3rd meeting (June 21, 1995) Elaboration on PDS.
• 4th meeting (July 5, 1995) Review of current pageturners.
• 5th meeting (July 19, 1995) Video replay of pageturners; human handling of books.
• 6th meeting (August 2, 1995) PDS prioritization.
• 7th meeting (August 16, 1995) PDS prioritization continued.
• 8th meeting (September 8, 1995) PDS, questionnaire, paper handling techniques.
• 9th meeting (September 22, 1995) questionnaire review.
• 10th meeting (October 6, 1995) PDS complete, questionnaire review.
• 11th meeting (October 20, 1995) Initial brainstorming session.
• 12th meeting (November 3, 1995) More brainstorming.
• 13th meeting (November 17, 1995) Questionnaire results and brainstorming review.
• 14th meeting (December 1, 1995) Visit to Maddak.
• 15th meeting (December 15, 1995) Maddak review; concept groupings; eval plan.

1996 Meetings

• 16th meeting (January 19,1996) In-house meeting.
• 17th meeting (January 26, 1996) Second In-house meeting
• 18th meeting (February 9,1996) What should it look like?
• 19th meeting (March 1, 1996) Yes, there was a meeting, but no minutes available
• 20th meeting (March 22, 1996) First look at base
• 21th meeting (April 19, 1996) First look at modified wand
• 22nd meeting (May 17, 1996) Review of wand design
• 23rd meeting (June 5, 1996) First look at base with clips
• 24rd meeting (July 3, 1996) Solenoids!
• 25th meeting (July 24, 1996) Problem solving
• 26th meeting (Aug. 14, 1996) Eric's mock ups
• 27th meeting (Sept. 4, 1996) Air knife mock up
• 28th meeting (Sept. 18, 1996) More mock ups of air knives
• 29th meeting (Oct. 16, 1996) Group discusses Whitney's progress
• 30th meeting (Nov. 20, 1996) New Pickup head discussed
• 31st meeting (Dec. 5, 1996) Third in-house meeting

1997 Meetings

• 32nd meeting (Jan. 29, 1997) Matrix
• 33nd meeting (Feb. 19, 1997) First prototype!
• 34th meeting (April 16, 1997) Wings!
• 35th meeting (May 14, 1997) Air Flow
• 36th meeting (July 30,1997) A video camera and a tv monitor
• 37th meeting (Oct. 16,1997) Review of patents

1998 Meetings

• 38th meeting (Mar. 20,1998) Last Pageturner meeting

Design Information

• Product Design Specification (PDS) (available to ASEL staff)
• Pageturner Questionnaire and Results
• Latest article from Design Team Update

Background

• Other Pageturners
  • TouchTurner (ASEL only)
  • Maddaturner (ASEL only)
• On-line Patent Search

Relevant Technology

• Xerox Reading Edge

Internet Resources

• MADEFAST Design Information (this contains some component information)
• PartNet Home Page
• CommerceNet Home
• Patent info

For people on the web, documentation for this project is indexed in http://www.asel.udel.edu/robotics/conlab/pageturner/pageturner.html Access to the minutes is limited to members of this design team.

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