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DESIGN TALKING: AN ONTOLOGY OF DESIGN METHODS TO SUPPORT A COMMON LANGUAGE OF DESIGN

Roschuni, Celeste; Kramer, Julia; Zhang, Qian; Zakskorn, Lauren; Agogino, Alice // 2015
While many design firms have created and use their own collections of design methods, there is no standard language of design that spans across disciplines. With over 300 distinct design thinking ...

DESIGN TOWARDS BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING DESIGN AND ELDERLY PEOPLE

Carli Lorenzini, Giana; Olsson, Annika // 2015
The aging of the population is a worldwide trend, especially in Western countries. The increased number of people living past 65 years is also a trend for polypharmacy (the multiple use of ...

Design, Development and Validation ofElectromagnetic Apparatus for Compression TestMagnetorheological Elastomers  (Members only )

S.A., Ubaididillah; I., Mazlan; Harjana, Yahya; Sutrisno, J. // 2015
A step by step development of electromagnet apparatus for dynamic squeeze/compression test of the MREs was delivered in this report. The magnetic circuit analysis was firstly established to estimate ...

DESIGN-FOR-MANUFACTURE OF SHEET-BULK METAL FORMED PARTS

Breitsprecher, Thilo; Sauer, Christopher; Sperber, Christian; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Sheet-bulk metal forming (SBMF) is an emerging and sustainable manufacturing technology that offers potential both for shortening process chains and for designing new geometry features that enable ...

DESIGNED FOR, WITH, AND BY KIDS. INTEGRATING CHILDREN’S APPROACH INTO DESIGN TEACHING AND RESEARCH VISUALISATION

Luccarelli, Martin; Di Iorio, Mariagiovanna // 2015
This work addresses the creativity and intuitive approach of children to improve design teaching and research visualisation. Three experiments involving children as user, tester, and informant are ...

DESIGNING CHILD-SIZED HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE: BEYOND PREFERENCES FOR COLOURS AND THEMES

Verschoren, Laure; Annemans, Margo; Van Steenwinkel, Iris; Heylighen, Ann // 2015
Hospitals tend to be associated with being ill and suffering from pain. Especially for children a hospital stay can be a poignant experience. On top of not feeling well, they have to exchange their ...

DESIGNING FOR CHILDREN’S PLAY GROUND, A SOCIAL SKILLS IMPROVEMENT APPROACH

Sepahpour, Ghazaleh; Shahabi Haghighi, Hamid Reza; Choopankareh, Vahid // 2015
Many children learn how to communicate by playing. The objective of this research is to identify a suitable method to improve children’s social interactions, by designing a toy, according to ...

DESIGNING FOR MULTISENSORIAL INTERACTIVE PRODUCT EXPERIENCES

Sener, Bahar; Pedgley, Owain // 2015
This paper presents a methodology and case study of designing for multi sensorial interactive product
experiences, within the context of postgraduate degree level Industrial Design education. ...

DESIGNING FOR THE DEEPEST NEEDS OF BOTH PUBLIC SERVICE CONSUMERS AND PROVIDERS; INNOVATION IN MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE

van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; Watson, Rodger // 2015
Design is increasingly used as an approach to support innovation outside the traditional design domain, including the public sector. One of the design principles that is used in these so-called ...

DESIGNING FOR USER EXPERIENCE IN NORDIC SKIING

Stuler, Hĺkon; Berg, Arild // 2015
Although the experience is the most important aspect of skiing, sports equipment manufacturers do not seem to take this into account in the development of skiing products. This paper examines how the ...

DESIGNING OF HYBRID JOINTS AT THE EARLY EMBODIMENT DESIGN STAGE

Kellermeyer, Markus; Klein, Daniel; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Increasing costs for fuel and an increasing ecological awareness of the companies have lead to a higher importance of lightweight constructions in the automotive industry. A possibility to make ...

Designing Pleasurable Customer Experiencesin Meal Ordering Services  (Members only )

Shu-Shiuan, Ho; Fu-Qu, Cherng; Tung-Jung, Sung // 2015
Pleasure allows customers to experience better service interactions that can result in high satisfaction and increased loyalty. However, research that has empirically documented the link ...

DESIGNING PSI: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PSI FRAMEWORK

Reich, Yoram; Subrahmanian, Eswaran // 2015
The PSI spaces are a framework for studying designing as practiced in the real world: framing and solving technical, social or organizational goals embedded in the existing socio-economic and ...

Designing Sensory E-Textiles for Dementia

Treadaway, C.; Kenning, G. // 2015
This paper describes research investigating the design and development of new kinds of sensory textiles to be used to support the subjective wellbeing (SWB) of persons with dementia (PwD). An ...

DESIGNING WITH CRIME PREVENTION – CREATING COMMUNITY WELLBEING THROUGH DESIGN

Watson, Rodger; Kaldor, Lucy // 2015
This research examines a group of professional practitioners engaged in a reframing exercise on complex social problems. The research is part of a broader research question which is examining problem ...

DESIGNING WITH DAYLIGHT; THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DAYLIGHT AND HEALTH

Hauge, Bettina // 2015
Daylight is not only fundamental for architecture and renovations, modernizations and transformations of cities and buildings - it is fundamental for people’s well-being. This paper describes the ...

DESIGNING WITH PRIORITIES AND THRESHOLDS FOR HEALTH CARE HETEROGENEITY: THE APPROACH OF CONSTRUCTING PARAMETRIC ONTOLOGY

Eivazzadeh, Shahryar; Anderberg, Peter; Berglund, Johan; Larsson, Tobias // 2015
Designing for complex health care environments needs to address heterogeneous, competing, or even contradicting requirements expressed in different wordings and levels of abstraction by various ...

DESIGNLAB, MAKING SPACE FOR DOING DESIGNAS A PROCESS

Eggink, Wouter // 2015
The University of Twente has developed the DesignLab initiative to feed the “high tech, human touch” mission of the organisation. The combination of high tech and human touch was made one of the ...

DETERMINATION OF CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTRIBUTES THAT ALLOW THE EFFICIENCY OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR THE CREATIVE STAGE OF DESIGN PROCESS

Acuna, Alejandro // 2015
The main objective of this research is to analyze the performance of design software to support the first stage of the product design process. To achieve this, a pilot study was developed to evaluate ...

Determination of Characteristics for Real-Time Water Emulsion Fuel Supply System (RTES) Concept  (Members only )

Yahya, Wira Jazair; Muhsin Ithnin, Ahmad; Noge, Hirofumi; Koga, Tsuyoshi // 2015
This study focused on determination of main characteristics for emulsion fuel making device concept in which can eliminate emulsion fuel main weakness; stability issues and high dependency of ...

DETERMINING THE SIMILARITY OF PRODUCTS USING PAIRWISE COMPARISONS AND EYE TRACKING

Boa, Duncan R; Ranscombe, Charlie; Hicks, Ben // 2015
Styling is an important aspect of the design process in which the overall appearance of a product is developed and the visual appeal is achieved. However, styling decisions are often subjective and ...

DEVELOPING A COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF USE OF ANALOGY IN DESIGN ON TEAM COHESION AND TEAM COLLABORATION

Singh, Vishal; Casakin, Hernan // 2015
This paper presents a framework for a computational model about analogizing during team interactions when dealing with design problems. The framework is based on prior empirical research about the ...

DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK OF NEW MIXED METHOD, SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES GROUP DIARY AND ITS APPLICATION IN PRACTICE

Bae, Jieun; Cho, Kwangmin; Kim, Chajoong // 2015
As understanding use context is considered a key factor to deliver better user experience, designers have spent much time and money investigating the context. Despite the presence of various user ...

DEVELOPING AN OBJECTIVE FORMULATION FOR MOTORCYCLE ARCHITECTURE

Chandra, Sushil // 2015
Though an objective formulation is available for building and IT architecture, no such formulation is available for architecture of automobiles, which characterizes the relationship between various ...

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