| Abstract |
| A numerous products out in the market provide convergence functions that enable interconnection of a variety of digital contents through wireless communications working as a major media in the information society and this trend is considered as one of the cultural icons of our time. As such, development of products is staged within the framework of social code, known as `Sea of Information` and the traditional market approach where customer requirements and personalities are emphasized only needs to be revised accordingly. It is against this backdrop that products are getting so de- individualized that their uniqueness and values are increasingly combined and that a group of products with similarities are getting clustered and identified. However, we cannot ignore the significance and unique value of long-established traditional products that are closely related to basic needs of human life, that is, food, clothing and shelter. The environment where a lot of products are evolving to be multi-functional and complex provides convenience to enable us to conduct multiple tasks at the same time. Therefore, this product convergence trend will most likely affect many other products in the future when multi-functional products with unique advantages will dominate the consumer market. This research has started based on the assumption that physical as well as functional convergence of products will be prevalent and common in the future among general consumer products, which is the intention to systemize new variable associations of physical shapes and functions. I have found a clue towards problem-solving in module system that facilitates physical, functional and structural expansion and conversion and try to come up with a concrete solution during the process of examining and investigating those clues more closely. Next, I`m going to focus on analyzing the relevance of module and structure and on the process of reassembling module items so that structural elements that are extracted and segmented can be applied to all module systems, while at the same time presenting a variety of cases regarding the assembly of physical shapes and functions. |
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| Key Words |
| 모듈 시스템, 제품의 융합, 다기능 제품, module system, convergence of products, multi-functional products |
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