USER-CENTRED MACHINERY DESIGN FOR A SMALL SCALE AGRICULTURAL-BASED COMMUNITY USING QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT

ABSTRACTDesign Thinking is a user-centred framework that captures unmet needs of users and generates ideas for sustainable solutions.Quality Function Deployment is a tool that translates the voice of customers into engineering attributes required for product and process design.Both concepts are globally adopted in various fields including but not l

The degree to which adult medical male circumcision (MC) programs can reduce new HIV infections in a moderate HIV prevalence country like Papua New Guinea (PNG) are uncertain especially given the widespread prevalence of longitudinal foreskin cuts among adult males.We estimated the likely impact of a medical MC intervention in PNG using a mathemati