Query returned 1610 results.
Approaches for mapping between preferential probabilities and relative design preference ratings
Ji, Haifeng; Honda, Tomonori; Yang, Maria C. // 2013
Assigning preferences to a set of design choices is an important activity in the design process. Previous research proposed a probabilistic approach to extracting preference information from ...
Assessment of information maturity during design, operation and maintenance stages within BIM use environment
ZOU, Raymond Rui; TANG, Llewellyn C.M; GOH, Mey // 2013
In construction, there is a prevalence of application of BIM (Building Information Modelling) involving in the processes and activities to contribute to a better output of lean production within ...
Broadening assessment criteria and student awareness
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard // 2013
We all know the need for society and designers to create a balanced or sustainable future. That is to meet demands of all stakeholders, whether they fall into the economic arena, environmental ...
Business model mining: Analyzing a firm’s business model with text mining of annual report
Lee, Jihwan; Hong, Yoo S. // 2013
As the business model is receiving considerable attention these days, the ability to collect business model related information has become essential requirement for a company. The annual report is ...
Cloud-based design and manufacturing systems: A social network analysis
Wu, Dazhong; Schaefer, Dirk; Rosen, David W. // 2013
A Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM) System refers to an information and communication technology (ICT) system that facilitates design and manufacturing knowledge sharing between actors ...
Communicating life cycle assessment results to design decision makers: Need for an infomration visualization approach
Uchil, Praveen; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2013
Most of the design interventions made in the pursuit of reducing the environmental impact of products, often merely results in shifting the burden from one environmental issue to another, rather than ...
Comparison of design approaches between engineers and industrial designers
Yilmaz, Seda; Daly, Shanna R.; Seifert, Colleen; Gonzalez, Richard // 2013
Design Heuristics are an idea generation tool based on empirical evidence from successful designs. The heuristics serve as cognitive âshortcutsâ that encourage exploration of novel directions ...
Concept for tolerance design in early design stages based on skeleton models
Ziegler, Philipp; Wartzack, Sandro // 2013
A noticeable trend in mechanical industry is that the product lifecycle and within the product development phase shortens. One consequence is the necessity to perform product-analyses already in ...
Concept of product development simulator for an excavator using a haptic device
Eldirdiry, Omer; Ellman, Asko Uolevi // 2013
The significance of Virtual reality (VR) tools lies on its capability to simulate physical presence. Dealing with 3D model in VR Systems is less expensive, less dangerous and easier to make ...
Consecutive inter-year team projects - a learning experience entity?
Green, Clare Ruth // 2013
Part of an ongoing research project on inter-year team-working in design education, this paper looks at the cumulative effect of consecutive group projects as a learning experience.
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Cooperation between novice designers (students) and professional in building industry
Zeiler, Wim // 2013
ing complexity of the design tasks. A supportive design method was developed in cooperation with the Dutch professional organizations of architects and consulting engineers. The design method is ...
Design for lifecycle profit with a simultaneous consideration of initial manufacturing and end-of-life remanufacturing
Kwak, Minjung; Kim, Harrison // 2013
Remanufacturing is emerging as a promising solution for achieving green, profitable businesses. This paper considers a manufacturer that produces new products and also remanufactures products that ...
Design for privacy â Design Tool to Map Perceptions, Conflicts and Strategies of Privacy in Mobile Technology Development
Schneider, Diana; Kornberger, Tanja // 2013
This paper investigates the area of tension of privacy versus technologically enabled ubiquity, in order to align both into improved product and service design solutions. Through an iterative process ...
Design to connect: an online database providing inspiration for design education and practice
Bleuzé, Tore; Detand, Jan; Debaets, Patrick // 2013
How to join two parts remains an important issue in product design and engineering. Many joining methods were developed throughout history, from beautiful wood joints over invisible adhesives to ...
Designing crime prevention - A review of methods
Watson, Rodger Neil // 2013
The Designing Out Crime research centre (DOC) has now operated for almost 5 years. In this time the centre and its staff and students have worked on real life crime problems, using and developing ...
Designing the difference in an inclusive way
Almendra, Rita Assoreira // 2013
This paper proposes inclusive product designing as a way of creating a more collaborative material culture and of engaging in a meaningful social dialogue among people. Illustrating the argument it ...
Development of a design process to design for people with dementia and their extended care network - Learning from a case study
Brankaert, Rens; den Ouden, Elke // 2013
In Europe we face an aging society with a growing number of people suffering from dementia. This challenge we face as a society, because current healthcare systems are not ready for such an increase. ...
Do user driven innovation and ecodesign enrich or fight one another, and does sufficient methodologies for combining the two exist?
Herskind, Mathies; Sidelmann, Kristian // 2013
This paper is a theoretical investigation and case study of the presently highly debated and much referenced terms ‘ecodesign’ and ‘user driven innovation’, with the aim of illuminating the ...
Effect of expectation on affective quality perception
Yanagisawa, Hideyoshi; Takatsuji, Kenji; Mikami, Natsu // 2013
A user’s experience of a product involves a set of transitions from one sensory state to another. In such state transitions, a disconfirmation between prior expectation and posterior experience ...
Encouraging sustainable urban access: an exploratory student approach to design of product service systems
Nikitas, Alexandros; Rahe, Ulrike; Karjalainen, Toni-Matti // 2013
Urban access is a key trans-disciplinary design axiom looking to ensure that every member of the society can reach those locations and resources one needs for a sustainable standard of living and ...
Establishing key elements for handling in-service information and knowledge
Carey, Emily; Culley, Steve; Weber, Frithjof // 2013
In-Service support is an increasingly important part of product lifecycles in particular for complex high value, low number products such as in the Aerospace sector. Although there is a significant ...
Evaluation of standardization level of mechanical systems in engineering design
Sinigalias, Pavlos - Christoforos; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2013
The level of standardization of products and systems affects production process and the cost for their operation and maintenance. In reverse engineering and design, the systematic consideration of ...
Exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in design process
Allais, Romain; Tatiana, Reyes; Lionel, Roucoules // 2013
This article describes an exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in a business's value-creating process through the application of a global and systemic ecodesign approach. ...
Exploring storyboarding in pre-brief activities
Wikström, Anders; Verganti, Roberto // 2013
Creating ideas is no longer seen as a challenge within companies, creative sessions and brainstorming is widespread in most companies. However, when creating a design brief there is a lack of tools ...
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.