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Research in product architecture design has been addressing user related issues such as usability and affordance in order to enhance product efficiency, accessibility as well as safety. Yet, issues related to the question how people adopt, position and use new products in different environments, situations and modalities of use have not been well addressed. This paper examines how Semiotic Approach to Product Architecture Design (SAPAD) can be applied to the design of spatial organization of functional systems with an example of kitchen that embodies and reflect functional, cultural and lifestyle requirements of different users. First, the Semiotic Ladder framework introduced by Stamper that addresses six levels of interpretive mechanism was applied to the user observation data in order to understand how users interpret individual components and subsystems and to identify structure of meaning and values formed by the user through the usage process. Then the structure was used as a basis for developing the system architecture.
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