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Aesthetics versus Usability: What Drives our Product Choices?
Trathen, Stephen // 2014
This research examined the influence of usability and aesthetic/emotive characteristics on prospective buyers’ preferences in pre-purchase product selection. Results indicate that while both ...
AN APPROACH TO NONLINEAR BEHAVIOUR PREDICTION OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
Osman, K.; Štorga, M.; Marjanovic ,D. // 2014
The objective of the research presented in this paper is to develop an approach modeling and predicting the nonlinear behaviour of complex technical systems in the operating environment, based on a ...
An Experience-Based Approach to Teaching Product Design
Becker, Juan Jauregui; Wits, Wessel // 2014
This paper presents a new experienced-based approach to teaching product design. The goal is to address specific issues that are difficult to teach to students effectively in a purely theoretical ...
An Initial Approach for the Application of Product Assembly Information in the Early Phases of the Product Development Process by Using Methods of Model Based Systems Engineering
Eigner, Martin; Ernst, Joscha; Roubanov, Daniil; Dickopf, Thomas // 2014
In this paper an initial approach is presented that supports the exchange of assembly-related information between design and assembly planning even before the geometry of the individual parts will be ...
Anthropometrics 2.0: Enrichment of Classical Anthropometry through Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Verwulgen, Stijn; Lacko; De Bruyne, Guido; Danckaers, Femke; Christis, Naomi; Sijbers, Jan; Huysmans, Toon // 2014
State of the art computational methods might offer the opportunity to handle 3D anthropometrical information: in a collection of similar 3D shapes, when there is a correspondence of points, certain ...
Application of Dependency Structure Matrix to Airspace Sectorization and Improving the Distribution of the Workload Among Controllers (Members only )
Farsad, M.; Malaek, S. M.-B. // 2014
This work investigates the application of Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) to problems with fast dynamics, such as airspace sectorization. The aim of this paper is to use a powerful mathematical ...
APPROACH FOR SCENARIO-BASED TEST SPECIFICATIONS FOR VIRTUAL COMMISSIONING
Schneider ,M.; Gausemeier ,J.; Schm // 2014
Growing competitive pressure requires the companies to plan their systems without cost-intensive iteration loops. A promising approach for decreasing the commissioning time is the virtual ...
Biomechanische Betrachtungen der Berechnung von Kräften mit Menschmodellen (Members only )
Gößling, Rainer; Eicker, Henrik; Bartz, Marcel; Bender, Beate // 2014
There are several methods to calculate muscle forces acting in the skeletal muscle system. In this article, two different methods are shown, using the example of the abduction of the upper ...
Can Folding a Product Foster Emotional Attachment?
Morgan, David // 2014
People become attached (and unattached) to products for various reasons. Researchers who study “emotion in design” have discussed the nature of such emotional bonds and the mechanisms by which they ...
Complex Mechatronic Product Modeling using a Multi-Solution, Multi-Instance eXtended Conceptual Design Semantic Matrix (Members only )
Diagne, S.; Coulibaly, A.; Sene, M.; De Beuvron, F. // 2014
The evaluation of the behavioral performance of Complex Mechatronic Products (CMP) at an early design stage is a major challenge in manufacturing industries. It requires a modeling approach that take ...
CONCEPT FOR MODELLING A CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE CHARACTERISTICS-PROPERTIES MODELLING (CPM)
Crostack ,A.; Heidingsfeld ,M.; Binz ,H.; Sawodny, O.; Roth, D. // 2014
The development of mechatronic systems necessitates co-operation and communication between all involved development departments. Literature shows, that there is a lack of a generally accepted ...
Darstellung der Herausforderungen einer ganzheitlichen Nutzerbeschreibung (Members only )
Walter, Johanna; Paetzold, Kristin // 2014
Products, which support people’s autonomy and self-determination, have to be adapted to the users’ wishes, needs and circumstances. For the development of those products it is not ...
DEMONSTRATING A METHODOLOGY FOR OBSERVING AND DOCUMENTING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND INTERACTION
Wilkinson, C.R.; De Angeli, A. // 2014
A methodology was developed for capturing human behaviour as part of a participatory design approach to creating an intelligent mobility aid for older people. The project aimed to anticipate user ...
Der Mensch als zentrales Teilsystem in Wechselwirkung mit handgehaltenen Geräten – Ein problemorientierter Ansatz zur Untersuchung dieser Schnittstelle (Members only )
Matthiesen, Sven; Mangold, Sebastian; Bruchmüller, Tim; , // 2014
The product development of power tools struggle with the complex interaction of the power tool, the user and the application. Current investigations of the functional reliability of impact ...
DESIGN FOR AN OPTIMAL SOCIAL PRESENCE EXPERIENCE WHEN USING TELEPRESENCE ROBOTS
Bamoallem, B.S.; Wodehouse, A.J.; Mair, G.M. // 2014
The use of telepresence robots in social environments is increasing. It is therefore important to create an optimal social presence experience for anyone interacting with the robot and the ...
Design Research: The Application in Professional Design Practice and Teaching in Design Education
Sung, Wooyoung; Giard, Jacques // 2014
Design research has become important in both design education and design practice. For design education, its role is in the identification of problems as well as the understanding of user behavior; ...
DESIGNING AND SIMULATING SMART HOME ENVIRONMENTS AND RELATED SERVICES
Peruzzini, M.; Capitanelli, A.; Papetti, A.; Germani, M. // 2014
Nowadays smart homes allow achieving higher performances and support the users’ everyday life by device cooperation and related service. However the simulation of their behaviour is neither ...
Development of the Material Selection Practice in the Design Education – A Study Exploring Articulation of Material Requirements
Hasling, Karen Marie; Lenau, Torben // 2014
This paper explores how the material selection matrix is used in a materials and sustainability course. The matrix encourages the students to articulate material selection requirements to become more ...
EARLY ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM DYNAMICS OF SELF-OPTIMIZING SYSTEMS
Vassholz, M.; Graessler ,I. // 2014
Self-optimizing (s.o.) systems have inherent partial intelligence and are able to adapt their behaviour during operation autonomously, due to changing objectives. Application examples have shown ...
ETH Focus Projects – Successful Approaches for Project-Based Education in Engineering Design
Marius, St // 2014
In the third year of the mechanical engineering bachelor programme, ETH Zurich offers so called Focus Projects as an integrative and intensive project-based learning course in product development. In ...
Ethics – Research, Engineering Design …They’re All the Same Aren’t They?
Humphries-Smith, Tania; Blount, Gordon; Powell, John // 2014
This paper considers how and to what extent product design ethics is understood by professionals in design practice and undergraduate students of product and engineering design and how, if at all, ...
EXPERIMENTATION IN INNOVATION: FACTORS AFFECTING EXPERIMENTATION IN ORGANIZATIONS
Hassi, L.; Rekonen, S.; Paju, S. // 2014
Experimentation is a fundamental innovation activity but the barriers to making experimentation an established approach to innovation in organisations are deep-rooted and numerous. Previous research ...
Exploring the Curricular Relationship Between Service Experience Design and Interaction Design
Hong, Youngbok; Ganci, Aaron // 2014
Connectivity in the contemporary networked society has required designers to shift their disciplinary focus from individual products to the entirety of human experience. The field of Experience ...
FBS ONTOLOGY TO EXTEND THE EFFICACY OF 40 TRIZ INVENTIVE PRINCIPLES
Russo, D.; Spreafico, C. // 2014
The TRIZ inventive principles are a set of problem solving guidelines universally tested and accepted by academic and industry. This article offers a review of this tool through the formalism of ...
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.