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Assessing the 3D Visualisation Skills of Engineering Students and Developing Techniques for Support
Milne, Mark; Morris, Richard; Covill, Derek; Katz, Tim // 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the 3D visualisation skills of a group of engineering students undertaking a first year BEng course in Mechanical Engineering, and in particular a module in ...
Assessment of Design Competencies by a Five Level Model of Expertise
Albers, Albert; Turki, Tarak; Lohmeyer, Quentin // 2012
In recent years, enabling competencies has become more and more relevant in design education and design practice. Various problem-orientated and project-based learning approaches allow students to ...
Body Perception Importance for Wellbeing Design
Thomsen, Bente Dahl // 2012
Training of the bodily receptivity and the sensibility is more or less absent from the universities’ design education, this is a problem in wellbeing design which is based on the fact that all human ...
Bond Graph Modeling and Simulation of Mechatronic Systems
Habib, Tufail; Nielsen, Kjeld; J rgensen, Kaj Asbj rn // 2012
One of the demanding steps in the design and development of Mechatronic systems is to develop the initial model to visualize the response of a system. The Bond Graph (BG) method is a graphical ...
Challenge of Teaching Product Design in Master Course with Heterogeneous Qualification in Indian Context
Shende, Avinash; Das, Amarendra Kumar // 2012
Globalization has increased awareness of design profession in India. Initially design education started in premier technical institutions like IITs, IISc and specialized design school i.e. NID and ...
Classifying components based on change propagation potential
Grinnell, R.; Schmidt III, R.; Austin, S. // 2012
The adaptability of a retail scheme is explored by applying Eckert et al. (2004) classifications to a UK shopping mall (part of a mixed use development). Visualisations of the case study data are ...
Cognitive Load Management and Architectural Design Outcomes
Mohamed-Ahmed, A.; Bonnardel, N.; Côté, P.; Tremblay, S. // 2012
The aim of this study was to analyze the link between the way designers manage cognitive load during the process of architectural design and the outcome of this process, that is, the quality of the ...
COLOR, COGNITION, AND RECYCLING: HOW THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS PROMPT BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Montazeri, S.; Gonzalez, R.; Yoon, C.; Papalambros, P. Y. // 2012
In this paper we studied the role of color in triggering recycling behavior. According to the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion we hypothesized that the visual salience of recycling bins ...
Computer Aided Design as an Idea and Concept Generation Tool in the Early Stages of the Design Process
Liem, Andre // 2012
This article claims that in certain circumstances digital visual representations (CAD) can facilitate a better understanding of the form than sketches and drawings, in the early creative idea and ...
Consideration of Material Behaviour in the Creative Design Process: A Perspective from Structural Engineering
Hay, T.J; Lee, D; Larsen, O.P // 2012
The purpose of this paper is to examine how material choices are made in practice by structural engineers and by implication how material behaviour is understood. The research uses documents from ...
Considerations about Creative Environments for Students
Lloveras, J. // 2012
A new idea is based on old ideas and knowledge produced by other minds, but an idea is born in the mind of one person, even when working with others. This article analyses several factors ...
Creating Novel Product Form based on Formal Aesthetics - A Method for Advanced Form Design Education
Rahe, Ulrike; Babapour, Maral; , Bj // 2012
One of the most distinct aspects of creativity in design is an aesthetic sense, an indubitable determinant of product success in the market. It is therefore of great importance to nurture creativity ...
Creativity and Innovtion: Developing Design Thinking and Visual Communication Skills
Trowsdale, D. B.; McKay, A.; Giard, J. // 2012
A common feature of today‘s societal challenges lies in their complexity. Society‘s ability to address these problems depends on education programmes developing in their graduates competencies and ...
Creativity in Design Education: The Effect of C-K’S C-constructs
Zeiler, Wim // 2012
The design of buildings is complex and requires the support of multi-disciplinary design teams. Therefore a supportive design approach has been developed: Integral Design. Integral Design combines an ...
Cultural drivers in product development: an historical case study
Wodehouse, A. J.; Tindley, A. // 2012
This paper explores the role of cultural factors in product development. While a significant amount of research has outlined the economic and business conditions that make for appropriate innovation ...
DEMYSTIFYING INNOVATION AND DESIGN – THE IMPORTANCE OF VISUALIZATION IN IDEATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Wikström, A.; Jackson, M. // 2012
This paper will discuss how design and design thinking can contribute to an innovative development process in a conscious, controlled, and cost effective way. The subject will be reviewed from a ...
Design Cognition Differences When Using Structured and Unstructured Concept Generation Creativity Techniques
Gero, J. S.; Jiang, H.; Williams, C. B. // 2012
This paper presents the results of measuring and comparing design cognition while using different creativity techniques for concept generation in collaborative engineering design settings. Eleven ...
Design for adoptability – Support of upgrade strategies to react to evolving stakeholder needs and requirements
Schrieverhoff, P.; Lindemann, U. // 2012
All systems and products are designed to fulfil the needs and requirements of their stakeholders. Those needs evolve over time, though, and thus products that can be adapted to altered demands and ...
Designer Storytelling
Parkinson, David; Bohemia, Erik // 2012
This paper aims to explore the approaches that designers take when storytelling. Design artefacts, such as sketches, models, storyboards and multimedia presentations, are often described in terms of ...
Differences in Creative Design Assessment
Wojtczukand, A.; Bonnardel, N. // 2012
In the context of today‘s highly competitive society, brands need to attract the audience‘s attention in ways that are assessed as attractive and creative. It is therefore essential to investigate ...
Drama in Design: An Open Brief to Design for Wellbeing
Liao, Tjhien Yuan; Person , Oscar // 2012
This paper presents a design module in which student teams were challenged in an open brief to design for wellbeing. To design for wellbeing is difficult. Wellbeing is ambiguous, hard to define and ...
Electrifying Car Brands:"'Taking Brands into Consideration in the Idea Generation Phase"
Moons, Ingrid; De Pelsmacker, Patrick; De Wit, Ivo; Du Bois, Els // 2012
The separation between the field of marketing strategy and marketing action (creating new products) is longstanding. Still, product development may become a key element for branding because it serves ...
Empower Me - Social Design Innovation for Homeless Families: Collective Design Creativity
Melles, G.; Howard, Z. // 2012
Design Creativity has largely been explored as an individual expression of design cognition rather than as the collective manifestation of interaction in context. Recent approaches to design with an ...
Enhancing the Understanding of Statistical Data Through the Creation of Physical Objects
Gwilt, I.; Yoxall, A.; Sano, K. // 2012
For many people outside of the scientific community statistical information and graphics remain abstract and unintelligible. This research begins to investigate how we might interrogate statistical ...
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.