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Designers’ knowledge in plastics

Eriksen, Kaare // 2013
The Industrial designers’ knowledge in plastics materials and manufacturing principles of polymer products is very important for the innovative strength of the industry, according to a group of ...

Designers’ promises or users’ expectations?

Gabelloni, Donata; Fantoni, Gualtiero // 2013
Several frameworks describe the design process, such as the FBS model and its extensions. Some of them present a designer-centric view, while the most recent ones are more based on the user’s point ...

Designing and implementing a method to build innovation capability in product development teams

Ritzén, Sofia; Nilsson, Susanne // 2013
This paper presents a framework and process (MINT) to support product development teams that have an ambition to improve their capability to manage both radical and incremental innovation. The ...

Designing burial monuments to increase emotional awareness in product design

Stoltenberg, Einar; Berg, Arild // 2013
The motivation for writing this paper is the growing concern in society towards the amount of products we produce containing low utility and sustainability. Through emotional awareness the student ...

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 experienceable systems by using microcontroller based platforms

De Grande, Guido; Baelus, Chris; De Roeck, Dries; Van Campenhout, Lukas // 2013
Industrial and product designers have increased access to various microcontroller based electronic platforms to test system design and interaction design ideas. A well known example of such a ...

Designing on the road; exploring the who, where and why of individual mobility devices.

van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; van der Molen, Pieta; van der Voort, Mascha // 2013
The aim of this study is to support designers in dealing with the variety of situations in which product are used, so-called dynamic and diverse use situations (DDUS). Dealing with varying use ...

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 ...

Designing training plans in creativity techniques for companies

Canina, Marita; Anselmi, Laura; Coccioni, Elisabetta // 2013
It is widely recognized that training in creativity techniques enhances the competitiveness and efficiency of companies’ production processes. As well as contributing to self-fulfilment, ...

Determining module replacement timing of product for balancing quality and production cost

Jeong, Jae Hun; Kim, Daeyoung; Jang, Wooseok; Lee, Jihwan; Hong, Yoo S.; Park, yongtae // 2013
As the world has entered the era of limitless competition, most manufacturing companies are trying to reduce the product cost using a modular design strategy. In this environment, the company ...

Developing business models for extended products in manufacturing service ecosystems

Thoben, Klaus-Dieter; Wiesner, Stefan; Gusmeroli, Sergio; Eschenbaecher, Jens // 2013
The growing demand for integrated solutions forces manufacturers of industrial goods to combine their products with service components to Product-Service Systems, or Extended Products (EP). The new ...

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. ...

Development of an engineering change management capability framework for enterprise transformation

Storbjerg, Simon Haahr; Sommer, Anita Friis; Brunø, Thomas Ditlev; Thyssen, Jesper // 2013
With the current financial crisis focus of product development in industry has centred on efficient variant development and increasing the utilisation of existing products and platforms. Together ...

Development of the digital storage Fuon

Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Hesamedin; Schäfer, Thomas; Spielauer, Alexander; Aschinger, Gerold; Collado-Ruiz, Daniel // 2013
This paper ties to Fuon Theory, where functional icons are suggested to phrase standardized functional units. Having functional unit parameters at hand, products that can be described by these ...

Die eigenschaftsbasierte Produktentwick-lung unter Ber  (Members only )

Luft, Thomas; Kamin, Stefan; , J // 2013

Differentiating positive emotions elicited by products; An exploration of perceived differences between 25 positive emotions by users and designers

Ortíz Nicolás, Juan Carlos; Aurisicchio, Marco; Desmet, Pieter M.A. // 2013
This paper reports semi-qualitative research on emotions from the perspective of users and designers. Twenty-five positive emotions were ranked regarding four relevant issues for product design: ...

Disability + relevant design: a portfolio of approaches

Schneider, Sheila M.; McDonagh, Deana; Thomas, Joyce K. // 2013
This paper discusses a multi-methodological approach to integrating the voice and experience of our diverse population (e.g. people with disabilities) into Industrial Design curricula. There is much ...

Discovering contextual tags from product review using semantic relatedness

Lim, Soon Chong Johnson; Liu, Ying // 2013
Nowadays, online product reviews has enabled product designers to better understand product related issues from the users' perspective. In the design community, there are a number of studies that ...

Discursive constructions of design and implications for engineering education

Premer Petersen, Rikke // 2013
Recognition of design discourses at play in professional practice is key when discussing ways to reintroduce designerly ways in engineering education. This paper outlines three design discourses ...

Distribution of mental stresses during conceptual design activities

Nguyen, Thanh An; Xu, Xu; Zeng, Yong // 2013
In this paper, we study how different mental stress levels are distributed in a conceptual design process. Firstly, we reviewed a Stroop Test experiment conducted earlier in our lab to confirm the ...

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 ...

Does experience in design and innovation affect the perception of creativity?

Becattini, Niccolò; Borgianni, Yuri; Cascini, Gaetano; Rotini, Federico // 2013
The assessment of creativity arouses increasing interest within design community. The literature witnesses efforts to quantitatively measure creativity, although commonly considered intrinsically ...

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