Query returned 1452 results.
Design challenges in energy conservation strategies for shared spaces
Withanage, Chathura; Blessing, Lucienne; Wood, Kristin // 2017
Business and service buildings, mainly consisting of shared spaces, account for 38% of the total Singapore energy consumption. However, compared to energy use studies in private spaces (i.e., ...
Design finds a way: Creative strategies to cope with barriers to creativity
Gonçalves, Milene // 2017
Creativity is quintessential in design ideation, as it fuels innovation in an ever-changing world. However, designers often experience states of being stuck and fixated, either on their own ...
Design fixation to examples: A study on the time decay of fixation
Viswanathan, Vimal Kumar // 2017
When designers fixate during an idea generation session, they replicate the features of any available example or their prior ideas. This paper presents an empirical study to understand the variation ...
Design for micro-enterprise: a field study of user preference behavior
Austin-Breneman, Jesse; Yang, Maria // 2017
Product development serving the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) is an increasing part of many organizations’ growth strategies, from social enterprises to large multi-national companies. In response to ...
Design for privacy in public space
Cho, Kwangmin; Kim, Chajoong // 2017
The role of public space in contemporary society is important to a person’s well-being as it provides useful function. However, privacy issues is problem when user use the public space. This study ...
Design for resource-limited societies: Informational behaviour of designers
Jagtap, Santosh; Larsson, Andreas; Warell, Anders // 2017
There is a sharp contrast between High Resource Settings (HRSs), commonly seen in developed countries and Low Resource Settings (LRSs), typically found in the marginalised sections of societies ...
Design for robustness - Systematic application of design guidelines to control uncertainty
Freund, Tillmann; Würtenberger, Jan; Lotz, Julian; Rommel, Carmen; Kirchner, Eckhard // 2017
In Robust Design literature, the application of Robust Design guidelines is suggested as a measure to obtain a design that is more insensitive against variations. But it lacks a detailed and ...
Design guidelines for shoulder design of an anthropomorphic robotic arm
Leroux, Martin; Achiche, Sofiane; Beaini, Dominique; Raison, Maxime // 2017
The development of biomechanically-accurate robotic arms is of high interest; in this paper we investigate an actuated spherical mechanism for biofidelic shoulder design. Given the high inertia of an ...
Design of a smart alarm clock to foster sustainable urban mobility
Monici, Dario; Graziosi, Serena; Ferrise, Francesco; Bordegoni, Monica // 2017
In this paper we describe the design of a smart alarm clock, conceived as a persuasive system to foster a sustainable urban mobility. Automatically retrieving and elaborating information available on ...
Design of human-powered hybrid electric-power shovel for deep excavation
Matsuura, Naoki; Hatano, Yuji; Iizuka, Teppei; Fujisawa, Tatsuro; Wesugi, Shigeru // 2017
There are still a lot of high-load physical works which can’t be substituted by machine, such as clearing snow, removing sediment under floor and volcanic ashes, where a large-sized machine cannot be ...
Design opportunities in mutual support service for the elderly
Pahk, Yoonyee; Baek, Joon Sang // 2017
As concerns about economic crisis and lack of human resource by rapid ageing population are growing, new models of social support service are required. One of alternatives for enabling sustained ...
Design principles of wearables systems: an IoT approach
Stelvaga, Anastasia; Fortin, Clement // 2017
Wearable technologies comprise a large variety of electronic devices that are suitable to wear on the human body. These technologies were considered initially as an isolated consumer product but are ...
DESIGN THINKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN DESIGN EDUCATION
Kloeckner, Ana Paula; Libânio, Cláudia de Souza; Ribeiro, José Luis Duarte // 2017
Design Thinking is a human-centred innovation process, with an emphasis on deep understanding of consumers, holistically, integratively, creatively, and awe-inspiring. Design Thinking methods and ...
Design variation through richness of rules embedded in LEGO bricks
Mathias, David; Boa, Duncan; Hicks, Ben; Snider, Chris; Bennett, Peter; Taylor, Colin // 2017
Design rules govern the design process by imposing constraints on the development of a product. Examples of design rules include engineering standards, regulations, standard operating procedures and ...
Designer's identity: Development of personal attributes and design skills over education
Kunrath, Kamila; Cash, Philip; Li-Ying, Jason // 2017
Designers’ Professional identity (DPI) is a social- and self-perceptive construct through which designers are able to identify themselves. To understand the development of DPI, not just as a ...
DESIGNING COLLABORATIONS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY
Skelly, Martin; Bruce, Fraser // 2017
Since the Bauhaus, industry and product design education have been intrinsically linked. A century later, industry collaborations still form a major component in product design education. In 2016, ...
Designing with LEGO: Exploring the influence of low fidelity visualisation on collaborative design activities
Ranscombe, Charlie; Bissett-Johnson, Katherine; Boa, Duncan; Hicks, Ben // 2017
Sketches, cardboard mock-ups, and digital modelling software are typical media at a designer’s disposal for visualising and evaluating ideas. Recent research indicates the benefits of using such ...
DEVELOPING CO(DESIGN) PROCESS AND TOOLS TO INNOVATE EDUCATION THROUGH DIGITAL DO IT YOURSELF
Bruno, Carmen; Canina, Maria Rita // 2017
The current societal trend of digitally enabled self-production (i.e. digital Do-It-Yourself) is emblematic of the contemporary and diffuse attitude to make and create. It also reflects the new ...
Discursive vs. intuitive - An experimental study to facilitate the use of design catalogues
Üreten, Selin; Krause, Dieter // 2017
Though shown to be of support to the designer, design method acceptance is still an issue to the design society today. Requirements and concepts in general derived from fundamental learning ...
Dynamic modelling of relationships in complex service design systems
Hassannezhad, Mohammad; Cassidy, Steve; Clarkson, P. John // 2017
Today’s market conditions such as globalisation and digitalisation have made it challenging to design an effective service system that can efficiently balance organisational service capacity and ...
EITHER/OR: REFLECTING DESIGN THESIS ORIENTATION
Soares, Liliana; Aparo, Ermanno; Moreira da Silva, Fernando // 2017
Thesis orientation fuels a global debate across the fields of design education. Considering Design a production agent for contemporaneity, design’s expression redefines it and increases its ...
Elements to the development of a creativity technique
Medeiros Leopoldino, Kleidson; Aguirre González, Mario; de Oliveira Ferreira, Paula; de Melo, David; de Vasconcelos, Rafael // 2017
Understood as a skill, and present at different levels in the human being, creativity can be developed spontaneously and not spontaneously. Spontaneously from the interaction between endogenous and ...
Eliciting configuration design heuristics with hidden Markov models
McComb, Christopher; Cagan, Jonathan; Kotovsky, Kenneth // 2017
Configuration design problems, characterized by the selection and assembly of components into a final desired solution, are common in engineering design. Although a variety of theoretical approaches ...
EMPOWERING REFUGEE AND HOST-COMMUNITY YOUTH WITH DESIGN THINKING SKILLS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Hasselknippe, Kathinka Strand; Flygenring, Thomas; Kirah, Anna // 2017
Design is problem solving; it is the systematic and creative development of products, services to meet people’s needs. In the Human Centred Design approach (HCD), the belief is that the people who ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.