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Training Future Engineers: What Can We Learn from Twelve Outstanding Innovators?
Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2014
A design is a plan for a system, its implementation and utilisation for attaining goals that are intended to change “current situations into preferred ones”. Designing involves developing both the ...
Understanding Through Making
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard; Beaufoy, John; McGonigal, Stephen // 2014
This paper’s core theme is incorporating an empirical approach in the understanding of physical value(s) within Product Design (PD). It is a reaction too, and an acknowledgement of the changing ...
Virtual Product Engineering Network crosses Industry and University Chasm
Bitzer, Michael; Handschuh, Sebastian; Langlotz, Martin // 2014
The engineering and design education across Europe can vary from countries and types of universities. With special focus on the situation in Germany this paper discusses an industrial view on the ...
Where Design and Electronics Meet: Integrate Electronics in Product Design
Varekamp, Tommie; Keller, Ianus; Geraedts, Jo // 2014
In the last decade inexpensive digital electronic components have become accessible for the field of product design, making it possible to integrate electronics in all kinds of products. By using ...
Where's my Robot? Integrating Human Technology Relations in the Design Curriculum
Eggink, Wouter // 2014
In today’s society, and in almost every forecast for the future, technology development plays a major role. From theories in Science & Technology Studies we learn that the development of new ...
Why Designers and Philosophers Should Meet in School
Stam, Liesbeth; Eggink, Wouter // 2014
Many scholars who study user-technology relations have shown from different perspectives that such relations are mutually constructive: users shape technology, and technology shapes users. This ...
Widening the Interpretation of Assistive Devices – A Designer’s Approach to Assistive Technology
Grieg, Jesper; Keitsch, Martina Maria; Boks, Casper // 2014
Assistive technology (AT) has traditionally focused on being ergonomic, functional and useful. The main aesthetic design maxim has been discretion, as in disguising or hiding the device. However, ...
A case study for application of design for affordance methodology using affordance feature repositories
Kim, Yong Se; Noh, Ji Hye; Kim, Sun Ran // 2013
The characteristics of products and services that induce natural activities of people, namely affordances, play critical roles in making interactions successful and meaningful. Earlier a ...
A case study on exploring energy user needs toward design for building energy saving
Hong, Yeon Koo; Kim, Kee-Ok; Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Pil-Ho; Kim, Dae Hoon; Lee, Sang Won // 2013
In this paper, energy user needs are explored via the new user research method combining generative tools and focus group interview toward design for building energy saving. A number of needs for ...
A comparison of design for human variability strategies in seating requirements of anthropometrically diverse populations
deVries, Charlotte; Roach, Gregory; Parkinson, Matthew // 2013
When considering the needs of global populations, variations in overall body size and shape create an interesting situation for designers: should products designed for global markets achieve ...
A comparison of product preference and visual behaviour for product representations
Boa, Duncan; Hicks, Ben; Nassehi, Aydin // 2013
It is critical to understand how the means of representing a product can affect an individual's preference for it. This paper investigates the effect of varying a product's representation on an ...
A concept for an intuitive and interactive fully PLM-integrated eco-efficiency assessment in real-time
Eigner, Martin; Faißt, Karl-Gerhard; Keßler, Alexander; Schäfer, Patrick; Pickel, Peter; Seibold, Fabienne // 2013
To be competitive on the global market in a time of an increasing shortage of resources, companies have to develop not only good products but to make them also more sustainable. In the discourse on ...
A framework for effective human-to-machine communication for artificial interactive systems
Lee, Siang Guan; Sathikh, Peer // 2013
Most artificial interactive systems are designed by technical experts and not from the point of view of human-to-machine (H2M) communication. This paper discusses how two foremost human-to-human ...
A method for capturing and translating qualitative user experience into design specifications: the haptic feedback of appliance interfaces
Graziosi, Serena; Ferrise, Francesco; Bordegoni, Monica; Ozbey, Ozan // 2013
The paper describes a methodological approach specifically developed to capture and transform the qualitative User Experience (UX) of a consumer product into quantitative technical specifications. ...
A multi-agent based framework for multi-disciplinary conceptual design synthesis
Chen, Yong; Liu, Zelin; Huang, Jian; Zhang, Zhinan // 2013
It is encouraged that designers should explore in wide multi-disciplinary solution spaces for finding novel and promising principle solutions to desired functions during conceptual design. However, ...
A proposal of the usability checklist corresponding to task flows
Doi, Toshihisa; Yamaoka, Toshiki // 2013
Quantifying usability is important in Human-Centered Design. Checklist methods are one of the methods of quantifying usability method by usability inspection. Checklists so often used for quantifying ...
A theory of affective experience
Lulham, Rohan // 2013
Theory that informs and invigorates designers in how to think about, research and understand human experience is increasingly important to the development of the field of design(Demir, Desmet & ...
Action research in practice
Farel, Romain // 2013
Action research might be one of the best strategies to undertake a PhD research on design. This method has been increasingly promoted recently within the design community in different fields such as ...
An investigation of vehicle interface operation comfort
Georgiev, Georgi V.; Nagai, Yukari; Noda, Saori; Junaidy, Deny W.; Taura, Toshiharu // 2013
Comfort of operation is essential for product success. In particular, the evaluation of comfort can be difficult because variations exist in product interface operations. In this paper, we ...
Analyzing social influence through network simulations in choice modeling
Tian, Peilin; Chen, Wei // 2013
In this paper, we study how to capture social influence on customer choice based on rich consumer data. The created choice model helps achieve a better understanding of consumer preferences in ...
Analyzing the cognitive processes of an interaction design method using the FBS framework
Filippi, Stefano; Barattin, Daniela; Cascini, Gaetano // 2013
The engineering design community is debating since more than two decades on the development of models and methods suitable for analyzing the cognitive processes that occur within design activities. ...
Application of dynamic value-attribute modeling in a product family
Withanage, Chathura; Moon, Seung Ki; Park, Taezoon; Duc, Truong Ton Hien // 2013
Product families are used as a solution to cater the needs of diversified user groups, while minimizing the usage of resources. However, today's design decision makers require additional capabilities ...
Applying experience reports in design education: challenges and ideas
Pasman, Gert; Romero Herrera, Natalia // 2013
What if both design students and design tutors could have real-time insights into how students actually experience their design process rather than after-the-fact reflections? And what if these ...
Are we all designers?
Rodgers, Paul; Hall, Ashley; Winton, Euan; Land, Ellie; Aurisicchio, Marco // 2013
Several design writers have proposed, or at least implied, that ââ¦we are all designersâ¦â through the way we manipulate the environment around us, select the items we wish to own, plan, build, ...
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.