The UD phenomenon in Japan: Product innovation through universal design

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4554 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 224-233

  Macdonald, Alastair S ^a  

^a GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Japan; Manufacturing; Mobile phones; Product case studies; Universal design

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; MARKETING; MOBILE PHONES;

MARKETING MATERIAL; UNIVERSAL DESIGN (UD);

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 38149046672     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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