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Creative Space in Design Education: A Typology of Spatial Functions

Thoring, Katja; Luippold, Carmen; Mueller, Roland M. // 2012
This article analyses the role of the space for facilitating creativity, especially in the context of creative education. Based on a qualitative user research with cultural probes, five different ...

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 Comparisons between Japanese and European at the Concept Creation Stage

Gentner, A.; Bouchard, C.; Esquivel, D.; Oprea, G. // 2012
The study presented in this article aims to measure the impact of sensory, cognitive and affective modalities and the influence of designer‘s culture on the association of ideas phase during creative ...

Creativity in Car Design – The Behaviour at the Edges

Dowlen, C. // 2012
The paper is developed from a longer evaluation of the history of car design. This larger evaluation used statistical processes for investigating the direction of history. Rather than looking at the ...

Creativity in craft led design: the Tools are the rules

MacLachlan, L.; Earl, C.; Eckert, C. // 2012
The co-evolution of new forms with specified tools characterises craft led design. Formal views of design and creativity may be characterised by the manipulation of the rules of a knowledge domain. ...

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 ...

Creativity in the First Year of an MEng Degree

Valentine, Rod // 2012
Creativity is a requirement of the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC) stipulating within its specific learning outcomes that accredited degree courses deliver creativity. ...

Creativity on demand

Linse, Charlotta; Jerbrant, Anna; Engwall, Mats // 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how designers perceive that managerial structures affect creativity and efficiency in the design work. The findings indicate that the designers think their ...

Creativity, Surprise & Design: An Introduction and Investigation

Brown, D. C. // 2012
This paper weaves together some of the basic ideas about surprise, and creativity, in the context of design. Situations in which design surprise might occur are identified, and a few are discussed in ...

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THE SUCCESS OF LARGE-SCALE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS

Steuber, M.; Oehmen ,J. // 2012
The success framework describes performance aspects of large-scale engineering programs. It consists of 26 metrics in 5 categories. They are: 1. Enterprise strategy alignment, 2. Performance and ...

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 ...

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE INTERACTION MODEL

von Saucken, C.; Schröer, B.; Kain,A.; Lindemann, U. // 2012
We suggest the Customer Experience Interaction Model (CEIM) to support the design of User Experience (UX). It provides a holistic view on the interaction of users with products. Therefore, CEIM ...

Customer Value and Lean Operations in Masters Education

Watt, Cameron; Angelis, Jannis; Chapman, Damian // 2012
There has been a shift towards greater independence and choice for students, as people want more information and control over their education. Moreover, universities face an increasingly complex list ...

CUSTOMIZED PRODUCT DESIGN BASED ON MEDICAL IMAGING

Harih, G.; Dolšak ,B.; Kaljun, J. // 2012
The increase of market demand for customized products and limitations within traditional Design methods has led to development of new user-centered Design methods based on multidisciplinary approach ...

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR IDEA SELECTION

Stevanovic ,M.; Marjanovic ,D.; Štorga, M. // 2012
This paper presents one of the possibilities of the idea selections for NPD. The focus is on the attributes that describe the ideas and selection criteria for ideas. The attributes for describing the ...

DECISION-MAKING AND FEEDBACK AS FOCI FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED STRATEGIES SUPPORTING CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

Marini, V. K.; Ahmed-Kristensen, S. // 2012
Prior studies revealed the incompleteness of information from early phases for current methods for robustness, reliability and safety. A longitudinal study was performed to describe the influence of ...

Defining Creativity as Problem Solving in Graphic Design Education

Alhajri, S. A. // 2012
yet it is difficult to find a definition of creativity that suits all fields. This paper argues that creativity in relation to graphic design education can be defined as problem solving. This paper ...

Definition of comfort in design and key aspects- A literature review

Stavrakos, Stavros-Konstantinos; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2012
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DELIMITING STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEM ANALYSIS IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Biedermann, W.; Diepold ,K. J.; Lindemann, U.; Lohmann ,B. // 2012
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of products is one of the key issues in engineering management. As the modelling requires lots of data and effort ways to predict the behaviour a priori are sought. In ...

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 ...

Dependency structure matrix modelling for human resource allocation

Albers, A.; Breitschuh, J.; Lohmeyer, Q. // 2012
A key challenge of today’s multi-project management lies in an effective and efficient allocation of limited resources. Especially the allocation of human resources determines informational ...

DESCRIPTIVE MODEL FOR INTERPRETING INNOVATIVE DESIGN

Zhang, Q.; Deniaud, I.; Caillaud, E.; Baron, C. // 2012
The complexity and uncertainty of innovative design require a comprehensive model to understand the process. In this paper, we introduce a descriptive model of innovative design. We construct the ...

Design and Control of a Prosthetic Knee for Transfemoral Amputation

Taga, Ö.; Yaman, K.; Ye, K.K. // 2012
In this study, transfemoral amputations and prosthetic knees evolved for transfemoral amputations are investigated and the electronic control unit of prosthetic knees is designed. The first stages of ...

Design and Emotions: A Design Method Based on Neurosciences

Maiocchi, M.; Pillan, M. // 2012
Many neuroscience studies put in evidence that emotions are physical conditions related to the effects of different neurotransmitters on many body organs, as a result of stimuli received by the ...

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