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An Investigation on Factors Triggering Surprise
Becattini, N.; Borgianni, Y.; Cascini, G.; Rotini, F. // 2015
Scholars argue about the role played by surprise in making new products creative. Different perspectives evaluate surprise as a nuance of novelty, an independent dimension or an emotional reaction to ...
Application of DSM in the field Organizational Psychology (Members only )
Fink, S.; Kasperek, D.; Reif, J.; Kugler, K.; Brodbeck, F.; Maurer, M. // 2015
As organizations face many challenges such as globalization or a dynamic and complex environment, new forms of collaboration have emerged like Multiteam Systems (MTS). MTS can be described as complex ...
APPLYING DESIGN ETHNOGRAPHY TO PRODUCT EVALUATION: A CASE EXAMPLE OF A MEDICAL DEVICE IN A LOW-RESOURCE SETTING
Mohedas, Ibrahim; Sabet Sarvestani, Amir; Daly, Shanna R.; Sienko, Kathleen H. // 2015
The use of design ethnography for the design of human-computer interfaces and computer supported cooperative work systems has become increasingly common both in industry and as a topic of study ...
Applying DSM methodology to rank risk of internal controls in critical infrastructure enterprises (Members only )
Dister, C. J.; Jablonski, A.; Browning, T. R. // 2015
Global infrastructures (finance, health, energy) require the enterprises involved to have complex risk management systems. To verify that these enterprise risk management systems are working ...
ARE WE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS?RETHINKING POST-GRADUATE DESIGN EDUCATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Brass, Clare; Mazzarella, Francesco // 2015
Our society is currently facing complex challenges, such us climate change, loss of biodiversity, ageing population, unemployment, to name but a few. This has created growing expectations on ...
ASSESSING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NUMERICAL METHODS, CAD EVALUATIONS AND REAL EXPERIMENTS FOR THE ASSESSEMENT OF REACH ENVELOPES OF THE HUMAN BODY
Delangle, Mathieu; Petiot, Jean-François; Poirson, Emilie // 2015
Numerical models and computer-aided modeling software are tools commonly used to assess the accessibility of an environment, based on static human body dimensions. In this paper, the limits of ...
ATTRIBUTES IN INTEGRATED DESIGN ENGINEERING - A NEW WAY TO DESCRIBE BOTH PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY AND BEHAVIOUR OF A PRODUCT
Vajna, Sandor J. // 2015
Integrated Design Engineering (IDE) is a human-centred and multidisciplinary development approach that integrates products and their lifecycle phases, processes, organisations, knowledge, and ...
BEHAVIOUR-ATTENTIVE PROTOTYPING OF A DESIGN AND SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR IC CHAMBERS
Hou, Yuemin; Horvath, Imre; Rusak, Zoltan; Ji, Linhong; Sun, Yunchun; Lin, Jia // 2015
This paper proposes a method of behaviour-attentive prototyping (BAP). BAP differentiates an approach of prototyping that provides a comprehensive description of the main features of the evolving ...
Being and Creative Consciousness
Brewis, J. // 2015
This article is a narrative inquiry into how personal meaning is made through the experience of a creative process during a six months sabbatical leave. The article’s intent is to interrogate the ...
Beschreibung der Nutzer von technischen Systemen für Ältere – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung (Members only )
Walter, Johanna; Schweiger, Petra; Birken, Thomas; Paetzold, Kristin; Pelizäus-Hoffmeister, Helga // 2015
Suitable technical products are able to support elderly people in their daily
life. In order to develop those products it is crucial to understand the future
users and their needs. Therefore, ...
BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED FAULT ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES FOR ENGINEERED SYSTEMS
Jensen, David Charles; Huisman, Nicholas // 2015
In nature, the continued survival of a species depends on the adaptability to unexpected environmental factors. While major mutations may lead to the selection of preferred traits in the long term, ...
Connected Creativity – A Human Centered Community Platform for Innovation Impulses
Albers, A.; Maul, L.; Bursac, N.; Heismann, R. // 2015
In this paper a concept for a community platform is introduced focusing on human factors of motivation and barriers in the context of innovation. Building on the state of the art, a three year case ...
CONSIDERING USER'S IMPACT IN VALIDATION ACTIVITIES – AN APPROACH FOR THE DETERMINATION OF REQUIREMENTS
Pinner, Tobias; Jost, Franz; Schmid, Daniel; Albers, Albert // 2015
Validation activities use virtual and physical validation models within a validation setup. In practice, a human user influences the product's functions and the overall user experience. Certain ...
CONSTANT DRIPPING WEARS AWAY THE STONE: LINKING DESIGN THINKING AND EFFECTUAL ACTION IN DESIGNING NEW VENTURES
Niedworok, Anja; Schloegl, Stephan; Mirski, Peter J.; Greger, Rudolf; Ambrosch, Marcus // 2015
In this paper we explore how to intertwine designers work and problem solving approaches with effectuation. At a first glance, establishing effectuation as the overlap between an entrepreneurial ...
CREATIVE REDUCTIONISM: HOW DECREASING LEVELS OF INFORMATION CAN STIMULATE DESIGNERS IMAGINATION
Inoue, Shiro; Rodgers, Paul; Tennant, Andy; Spencer, Nick // 2015
This paper reports on research that investigates how reduced information of an object may stimulate
design students’ creative imagination processes. Humans have the ability to recognise the meaning ...
CRISIS SITUATIONS IN ENGINEERING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - A METHOD TO IDENTIFY CRISIS
Muenzberg, Christopher; Venkataraman, Srinivasan; Hertrich, Nicolas; Fruehling, Carl; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
An observational case study and an observation method are presented in this paper. The goal of the observation method is to identify, observe, document and analyse crisis situations in engineering ...
CROWDSOURCING FOR SEARCH OF DISASTER VICTIMS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR SEARCH SYSTEM DESIGN
Burnap, Alex; Barto, Charlie; Johnson-Roberson, Matthew; Ren, Max Yi; Gonzalez, Richard; Papalambros, Panos Y. // 2015
Teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been suggested as sensor platforms for disaster victim search systems used shortly after natural disasters such as an earthquake or tsunami. Previous ...
DEFINITION OF THE FORM-BASED DESIGN APPROACH AND DESCRIPTION OF IT USING THE FBS FRAMEWORK
Filippi, Stefano; Barattin, Daniela // 2015
The most of design methods and tools consider product functions as the basis to generate design solutions, but in the aesthetic and industrial design the situation is different. The sensorial ...
DESIGN AS THE RESOLUTION OF PARADOXES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Morgan, Thea; McMahon, Chris // 2015
This paper presents an ethnomethodological case study of a student engineering design team during their final year design project. The results were analysed with reference to a theoretical framework, ...
DESIGN FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE: AN ELABORATION-BASED APPROACH TO PERSUASION IN PRODUCT DESIGN
Montazeri, Soodeh; Panos, Papalambros; Rich, Gonzales // 2015
This paper investigates the premise that products can be designed in a principled persuasive way to induce behavior change; specifically it explores how designers can adopt behavior change theories ...
DESIGN FOR CONTENTED LIFE: A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK
Ashour, Ayman Fathy // 2015
This paper addresses design contribution to the happiness of individuals leading to a contented life. A framework for design for contented life is introduced. It includes four main components: ...
DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEARABLE ACTIVITY TRACKERS
Kuru, Armagan; Erbug, Çigdem // 2015
Many people use wearable activity trackers to gather personal behavioral data, make better decisions, and make changes to their behavior. While the proliferation of new products on the market makes ...
DESIGN INNOVATION FOR SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS CHANGE
Thurgood, Clementine; Dorst, Kees; Bucolo, Sam; van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; Vermaas, Pieter // 2015
We present two approaches for addressing complex societal and business problems: frame creation and design led innovation. Both methods combine a broad systems approach to problem solving together ...
DESIGN QUESTIONS FOR LIFE: CONNECTING ENGINEERING DESIGN, APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY, AND OTHER QUESTION-BASED MODELS
Lilja, Johan; Hansen, David; Richardsson, Daniel // 2015
The “Design for Life” philosophy is an invitation to create new products, services, processes, and experiences that enhance human life. Research further suggests that a good life is qualitatively ...
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.