Designing a Wearable Smart Bracelet Using CMF Analysis

Wearable products are the new direction of high-tech interface development; these user-friendly wearable accessories allow users to transmit information via cloud platforms. This study conducted the intelligent design of a wearable device and explored a brand new type of human-technology interaction. The goal was to design a product that provides customised and personalised services, such as sleep monitoring, GPS, and diet-related services. Starting with the industrial design process, the investigators proposed to use CMF (color, material, and finishing) analysis as the basis of the product design process, and results from market survey analysis and function positioning from previous works were used to determine the direction of the design of a wearable smart bracelet. CMF analysis was then conducted for the wearable smart bracelet to verify the product design process. The study used analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to construct a three-layer (decision-making target, intermediate factors, and alternatives) structure model based on the three dimensions of CMF of the wearable bracelet. Afterward, a judgment matrix was applied to obtain the final weights. According to AHP results, industrial design results were generated.