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Open-Mindedness, Empathy and Gender Issues: Going beyond National and Corporate Cultures
Stal - Le Cardinal, Julie; Minzoni - Deroche, Angela // 2009
It has become commonplace to speak about national culture and corporate culture. In last ICED, a workshop ended up by a debate about the impact of deeply rooted national culture characteristics on ...
Organizational Factors Affecting Product Innovation Capability: Findings from the Med-Tech Industry
Olsson, Annika; Blomé, Mikael; Guve, Bertil; Kaulio, Matti; Norell Bergendahl, Margareta; Odenrick, Per // 2009
Research in innovation has created much knowledge to apply concerning tools, methods and processes. However, the challenge of allowing "space", time and competence for innovation capability ...
PLM — Digital Engineering and Numerical Simulation for Collaborative Product Development
Kibamba,Yannick; Eynard,Benoît; Troussier,Nadčge; Derigent,William // 2009
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a strategic business approach supporting the collaborative management of product and process de nition information from concept to end of life. This information ...
Pressure and Trust in Competitive Engineering
Pulm, Udo; Stetter, Ralf // 2009
In competitive engineering the term "pressure" is used frequently. Design engineers often face time pressure or cost pressure. Pressure can be described as activities of individuals or ...
Prototyping: Facing Uncertainty through Small Wins
Gerber, Elizabeth // 2009
Design is a learning process in which new knowledge is constructed and used to shape the environment in ways that did not previously exist. Because design is about creating that which does not yet ...
Quantifying Designer’s Mental Stress in the Conceptual Design Process Using Kinesics Study
Tang, Yao; Zeng, Yong // 2009
In this paper, a new approach is proposed to evaluate the designer's mental stress during the conceptual design process. Combined with designer's sketches, the proposed approach is based on ...
Reflection on effects and students' acceptance of methodical competence trainings
Geis, Christian; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
A methodical procedure can assist design teams in developing innovative and successful products. Nevertheless, university education often neglects the aspects of methodical teamwork. In this paper we ...
Simulation of Acoustical Product Properties for Technical Systems in Virtual Environments
Husung, Stephan; Weber, Christian; Gramstat, Sebastian // 2009
Virtual Prototyping is an important tool to verify and optimize product properties in the early design phases. By using digital product models many simulations of the system behavior can be carried ...
Study on Personal Characteristics and Affordance Perception: Another Case Study
Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Seongil; Park, Jeong Joo; Kim, Min Kyoung; Kim, Mee // 2009
Affordances could be regarded as an underlying value aspect for human-centered product, space, and service design. User activities in performing tasks are influenced by the way the user perceives the ...
Supporting Design Rationale Retrieval for Design Knowledge Re-Use
Wang, Hongwei; Johnson, Aylmer; Bracewell, Rob // 2009
Current retrieval methods of design rationale focus mainly on either the classification of rationale or on key-word based searches of records. The pitfalls of these methods are obvious. First, a ...
Supporting Product Innovation in Uncertainty Conditions: A U-SDSP Based Decision Making Approach
Polverini, Davide; Graziosi, Serena; Mandorli, Ferruccio // 2009
International competition intensification and product development process shortening have heightened the pressure to innovate, representing this issue nowadays a hallmark of all mature companies; it ...
The Flexible Meaning of Function in Engineering
Vermaas, Pieter E. // 2009
In this paper I explain the co-existence of different approaches towards understanding functions. First I argue that full descriptions of technical devices contain five key concepts: structure, ...
The Impact of Virtual Environments on Humans Collaboration in Product Design
Mengoni, Maura; Peruzzini, Margherita; Germani, Michele // 2009
Virtual Reality (VR) has quickly evolved over the last years in terms of technological and applicative dimensions. Human-Computer Interaction is particularly meaningful in the design activities ...
The Modeling of the Interaction of the Human Hand with Products
Medland, Anthony John; Matthews, Jason // 2009
Many products are designed to be hand operated in use. These extend from industrial machine tools to domestic appliances. In these the designer has to rely upon experience and ergonomic guidelines to ...
The Processnavigator – Flexible Process Execution for Product Development Projects
Faerber, Matthias; Meerkamm, Stephanie; Jablonski, Stefan // 2009
The development of new, innovative products is a company's fundament to achieve success on the long term. Processes have been successful to structure development processes, however no practical ...
The Product’s Degree of Maturity as a Measurement for the Efficiency of Design Iterations
Krehmer, Hartmut; Meerkamm, Harald; Wartzack, Sandro // 2009
In this contribution a framework for evaluating design iterations and for assessing the effects of design iterations on the product?s degree of maturity is introduced. Thereby, the product's ...
The significance of purchasing behavioural characteristics on sustainable design education of students
Hunt, Clive; Reynolds, Tim James // 2009
More and more businesses appear to be adopting the societal (or sustainable) marketing concept as their business philosophy. This is an attempt to increase their competitiveness and promote their ...
Thinking and Re-Thinking Verbal Protocol Analysis in Design Research
Zainal Abidin, Shahriman; Christoforidou, Despina; Liem, Andre // 2009
This paper assesses the appropriateness of verbal protocol analysis (VPA) as a means of analysing design activity. Design activity includes human cognitive abilities such as creativity, synthesis, ...
To learn to feel: developing tactual aesthetic sensitivity in design education
Sonneveld, Marieke H.; Schifferstein, Hendrik N. J. // 2009
Through touch we are in physical contact with the material world, to explore and manipulate that world. Touch is the basis for our understanding of the materiality of the world. In addition, touch is ...
Tolerance Analysis of Mechanisms Taking into Account Joints with Clearance and Elastic Deformations
Stuppy, Julia; Meerkamm, Harald // 2009
Geometrical deviations can influence the functionality of technical systems in motion. Geometrical deviations due to manufacturing discrepancies are limited by tolerances which are defined during the ...
Understanding Heterogeneity of Human Preferences for Engineering Design
Hoyle, Chris; Chen, Wei; Wang, Nanxin; Gomez-levi, Gianna // 2009
In today's competitive market, it is essential for producers to provide products which not only achieve high performance, but also appeal to the tastes of consumer. Therefore, a key element of ...
Use Scenarios for Digital Design Studios of the Future
van Doorn, Ellemieke; Horváth, Imre // 2009
This paper presents the results of an explorative study concerning the possible use and development of scenarios for future digital design studios. Although it is difficult to forecast the future, ...
User Aspiration Modeling to Predict Features for the Design of a New Group Interactive Music Device for the Young in India
Vasal,Ityam; Mayank,Kumar; Deshpande,Suyog; Yammiyavar, Pradeep // 2009
Understanding user behaviour and expectation is the core of all design activity especially in Interaction Design.While the approach and emphasis in product design has been on the individual user, ...
Using DMMs to Relate Design for Assembly Rules to Human Interaction Guidelines
Thomas, J.; Maier, J. R. A.; Fadel, G. M.; Mocko, G. M. // 2009
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.