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UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERING SYSTEMS THROUGH THE ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE GENOME: STRUCTURAL GENES OF SYSTEMS TOPOLOGIES
Shai, Offer; Reich, Yoram // 2011
The design of contemporary products requires knowledge from diverse disciplines. Presently, there is very little common denominator among engineering disciplines. This state of affairs is hurting ...
UNDERSTANDING FIXATION: A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF EXPERTISE
Viswanathan, Vimal; Linsey, Julie // 2011
Engineering idea generation plays a vital role in developing new products. Recent research has focused on methods to make designers more innovative and creative. Design fixation imposes a major ...
UNDERSTANDING STYLING ACTIVITY OF AUTOMOTIVE DESIGNERS: A STUDY OF MANUAL INTERPOLATIVE MORPHING THROUGH FREEHAND SKETCHING
Zainal Abidin, Shahriman Bin; Warell, Anders; Liem, Andre // 2011
Automated morphing techniques have been proposed as a design support tool to generate novel shapes which lie between two or more polar reference images. The purpose of these techniques, employed in ...
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLDS OF DESIGN AND ENGINEERING – AN APPRAISAL OF MODELS
Gudem, Martin; Boks, Casper; Welo, Torgeir // 2011
Using product innovation models as reference, this study presents barriers preventing integration between the worlds of product design and engineering. Models illustrating workflow within both ...
UNIVERSAL DESIGN AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT: TACTILE PRODUCTS FOR HERITAGE ACCESS
Gual, Jaume; Puyuelo, Marina; Lloveras, Joaquim // 2011
This article presents a pilot study carried out in the city of Barcelona on assistive resources applied to an itinerary of possible interest to visually impaired people. The objective of this study ...
Usability Certification Metrics for Banking Software
Sharma,Anshuman // 2011
Software usability certification within a banking software organization is required to benchmark software for its usability and customer focus. This brings in a culture of consistent product ...
USAGE CONTEXT-BASED CHOICE MODELING FOR HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES
He, Lin; Chen, Wei // 2011
Usage Context-Based Design (UCBD) has become an area of growing interest in engineering design research, due to the increasingly important role usage context plays in customers’ choices. In this ...
Use of a Multi-touch Surface to Support Distributed Design Meetings as part of a Problem-based Learning Approach to Teaching Design
Jones, Sara; Rakocevic, Veselin; Williams, Meirion; Atanasova, Eli // 2011
In today's globalized economy, students of engineering and product design need to acquire the skills to work as part of distributed design teams. Students on the European Global Product Realisation ...
USE OF CONSTRAINTS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF DESIGN
Mullineux, Glen // 2011
At the very early stages of original design work, the aspects of concept, scheming and analysis tend to merge. It is only as the designer’s understanding of the design task increases that these ...
VISUALISING ERGONOMICS DATA FOR DESIGN
Dong, Hua; Pei, Eujin; Chen, Hongyan; Macredie, Robert // 2011
Existing ergonomics data are not effectively used by designers; this is mainly because the data are not presented in a designer-friendly format. In order to help designers make better use of ...
Visualization of Knowledge Maturity for Product-Service Development
Johansson,Christian; Ericson,Åsa // 2011
An extension towards a service perspective in manufacturing firms challenge the established knowledge base of products, making it necessary to assess the team’s competences in light of a broader view ...
WANTS CHAIN ANALYSIS: HUMAN-CENTERED METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND DESIGNING SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Maeno, Takashi; Makino, Yurie; Shirasaka, Seiko; Makino, Yasutoshi; Kim, Sun // 2011
In the present paper, WCA (Wants Chain Analysis) is proposed by extending CVCA (Customer Value Chain Analysis). CVCA is a method for visualizing relationship among stakeholders for analyzing existing ...
Window Display as Communication
Guimaraes,Isabel // 2011
Lately there has been a recognition of window presentation value as a potential consumer’s attraction strategy and the reinforcing of a brand image. In an over offermarket where the consumer is ...
A FORMAL ACCOUNT OF THE DUAL EXTENSION OF KNOWLEDGE AND CONCEPT IN C-K DESIGN THEORY
Hendriks, L.; Kazakci, A. O. // 2010
The paper presents a contribution to the formalization efforts of C-K design theory. First, we analyze the notion of “dual expansion of concepts and knowledge” in C-K design theory and we discuss how ...
AN APPROACH TO DISCOVER INNOVATION POTENTIAL BY MEANS OF DELTA APPLICATIONS
Kain, A.; Kirschner, R.; Gorbea, C.; Kain, T.; Gunkel, J.; Klendauer, R.; Lindemann, U. // 2010
Although several approaches exist to integrate the customer in new product development, industrial small and middle sized enterprises do not apply these methods comprehensively. In order to overcome ...
AN INFORMATION REQUIREMENT STRATEGY FOR CAPTURING AND ANALYSING DESIGN ACTIVITY AND BEHAVIOUR
Cash, P. J.; Hicks, B. J.; Culley, S. J. // 2010
This paper forms part of the wider ongoing discussion on the issues and possible mitigating techniques present in empirical design research today. There are many methods which aim to develop rigour, ...
Approach towards a more Flexible Handling of Domains in ComplexSystems
Kohn, A.; Lindemann, U. // 2010
Design Structure Matrix (DSM), Domain Mapping Matrix (DMM) and Multiple Domain Matrix (MDM) methodologies offer a wide range for modelling and analysing complex systems. All these methodologies model ...
Art-ethnography to Analyze the Role of Sketches in Car Designing
Eguchi, Michiro; Okada, Takeshi // 2010
In this study, we investigate the design process of car making at a Japanese car company. Using 161 sketches that a designer produced during the car design process, we analyze which areas of the car ...
BOTTOM-UP KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN PSS DESIGN. A CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK
Bertoni, M. // 2010
The paper presents an approach to visualize the knowledge sharing capabilities of Web 2.0 tools and mash-ups in the design of Product Service Systems. Drawing on data from the Swedish manufacturing ...
Brainstorming is a Bowl of Spaghetti: An In Depth Study of Collaborative Design Process and Creativity Methods with Experienced Design Practitioners
Gongora, Layda; Dix, Alan // 2010
This article reports the findings of a study which comprised in depth interviews and an exercise using visual aids conducted at Philips research and Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands ...
CLASSIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS OF DESIGN THEORIES
Geis, C.; Birkhofer, H. // 2010
Models and methodologies for designing are numerous nowadays and no holistic approach, which combines all models, exists so far. Nonetheless, all of these models were developed with specific ...
Communicative affordance of industrial design sketching
Razzaghi, Mohammad; Nouri, Mobina // 2010
Design sketching, as a key designing technique and a rapid visual demonstration of design thinking, reasoning, and exploration, is being vastly utilized by industrial designers to communicate ...
CREATIVITY IN VIRTUAL DESIGN TEAMS
Chamakiotis, P.; Dekoninck, E. A.; Panteli, N. // 2010
Virtual Teams are an increasingly seen phenomenon in the digitally-mediated global workplace. The creativity of Virtual Design Teams, a quite popular working arrangement amongst contemporary ...
CULTURAL CUSTOMIZATION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES’ COMPONENTS
Aryana, B.; Boks, C. // 2010
Modularity of products and using a configuration system are two characteristics of mass customization, which has gained importance in contemporary industries. Culture is among those user ...
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.