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Towards a Science of Design as a Basis of Education
Finkelstein, Ludwik // 2011
Design may be defined as a system of activities, which transform the perception of a need into the knowledge required to make or implement an artefact, process or system to satisfy the need. It is ...
TOWARDS A SCIENTIFIC MODEL OF FUNCTION-BEHAVIOR TRANSFORMATION
Chen, Yong; Zhang, Zhinan; Liu, Zelin; Xie, Youbai // 2011
The function-behavior transformation, though widely acknowledged as a significant process of engineering design, is still regarded as a subjective and experienced-based process. This paper is ...
Towards an Evolutionary Understanding on the Success of Participatory Design
Gulari, Melehat Nil; Börü, Asl // 2011
The notion of `participation, democratisation of design' is not only a movement for social innovation but is also a powerful tool as a human centred approach to innovate product, service or an idea ...
Towards an Organic Participatory Approach to Design for Digital Inclusion
Kundu,Saikat ; McKay, Alison; Holt,Raymond; Valentine,Elizabeth ; Bobrowicz, Ania ;Coleman,Graeme ;Gibson,Lorna;Hanson,Vicki // 2011
While emerging digital technologies are pervading many aspects of modern life and large portions of society are benefiting, a substantial minority remains digitally disengaged. The problem of digital ...
TOWARDS ASSESSING THE VALUE OF AEROSPACE COMPONENTS: A CONCEPTUAL SCENARIO
Bertoni, Marco; Bertoni, Alessandro; Johansson, Christian // 2011
The development of complex products, characterized by long lifecycles and deep supply chains, requires enhanced capabilities to assess, in an early design stage, the value of a solution not merely ...
Towards Open Innovation Practices in Aerospace Industry
Parida,Vinit; Larsson, C.Tobias; Isaksson ,Ola; Oghazi, Pejvak // 2011
Across industrial settings and environmental conditions, innovation is viewed as a source of advancing firms’ competitive position. Recently, a shift has been witnessed from the traditional ...
Tracing of Weight Propagation for Modular Product families
Gumpinger, T.; Krause, D. // 2011
Modular product strategies are very popular in product development, especially for variant-rich products where modularity benefits economies of scale due to commonality. In weight-driven sectors such ...
TRIZ-Box in Design Education - A Study on Supporting Creativity
Albers, Albert; Lohmeyer, Quentin; Schmalenbach, Hannes // 2011
Creativity is an essential part of innovative product development and the origin of successful products. Several methods support activities in developing innovative products, one of them is TRIZ. A ...
UMEA - A FOLLOW UP TO ANALYSE UNCERTAINTIES IN TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
Engelhardt, Roland; Wiebel, Marion; Eifler, Tobias; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
In mechanical engineering uncertainties occur during the entire life cycle of a product. These uncertainties are defined as deviations from process and product properties. This makes the development ...
UNDERSTANDING ADAPTABILITY THROUGH LAYER DEPENDENCIES
Schmidt III, Robert; Deamer, Jason; Austin, Simon // 2011
This paper looks at change from the perspective of building design (i.e. adaptability), and how a better understanding of product architecture can bring about an easier accommodation of change for an ...
Understanding Design Thinking: A Process Model based on Method Engineering
Thoring, Katja; Müller, Roland M // 2011
This article presents a formal model of the design thinking process based on Method Engineering. The foundation of our work is based on observations within an educational context - the 'School of ...
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 MANAGERS DECISION MAKING PROCESS FOR TOOLS SELECTION IN THE CORE FRONT END OF INNOVATION
Appio, Francesco Paolo; Achiche, Sofiane; McAloone, Tim C.; Di Minin, Alberto // 2011
New product development (NPD) describes the process of bringing a new product or service to the market. The Fuzzy Front End (FFE) of Innovation is the term describing the activities happening before ...
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 2.5th Dimension: Modelling the Graphic Language of Products
Mulder-Nijkamp, Maaike; Eggink, Wouter // 2011
Recognising a product of a specific brand without seeing the logo is difficult. But for companies it is important to distinguish themselves from competitors with a consistent portfolio, which will ...
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXTS OF THE FRONT END OF DESIGN
Harrison, Thomas; Aurisicchio, Marco // 2011
What do we really know about design experience during the front end of design and which personality traits assist the designer? This paper describes empirical research currently taking place into ...
Understanding the Technical Content of Requirements in Specification Documents
Sudin , Nizam Mohd; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2011
Designing a good specification is essential as it contributes to a better overall design. A good design is possible if design problems are clearly defined, which in practice these problems are ...
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 ...
USABILITY COMPLIANT SUPPORTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN SIMULATION-DRIVEN ENGINEERING
Zapf, Jochen; Alber-Laukant, Bettina; Rieg, Frank // 2011
One major characteristic of engineering procedure is the conduction of product development processes by efficient application of computer-aided tools (CAx-tools). But given that the development of ...
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 ...
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