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SELF-DIRECTION IN A CO-DESIGN PROJECT FOR A HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM: TOWARD SOCIETY-SHAPING DESIGN
Sunaga ,T.; Fujimitsu ,S.; Harada ,Y.; Niino, Y.; Kobayakawa, M.; Yamada ,K.; Watanabe ,K.; Nishimura, T.; Sakamoto,Y.; Motomura ,Y. // 2014
Design today plays a role both in posing the questions of what to make and what kind of society to aim for, and also in untangling the solutions to these questions. When pursuing social design, it is ...
Social Cohesion Design, A Course for Designing Community Integrated Product Systems
de Lange, Tjamme; Vergeest, Jors // 2014
Design students are typically not educated in systematically including aspects of social cohesion in their designer practice. This paper describes the Social Cohesion Design course, an explorative ...
SOUNBE, A TOOLKIT FOR DESIGNERS DEALING WITH SOUND PROJECTS
Dal Palu, D.; De Giorgi, C.; Astolfi, A.; Lerma ,B.; Buiatti, E. // 2014
The theme of multisensory product experience appears to be today very up-to-date in the design research. But even if some senses such as sight and touch have been deeply examined, other senses such ...
Storytelling and a Narrative Analysis Based Method for Extracting Users’ Motives in UX Design Processes
Pucillo, Francesco; Michailidou, Ioanna; Cascini, Gaetano; Lindemann, Udo // 2014
Users’ emotions are crucial for purchasing decisions. Designing products that evoke positive emotions requires knowledge about users and their psychological needs: the research on User Experience ...
SUPPORTING INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A SET OF DESIGN-FOR-MAINTENANCE GUIDELINES
Mulder ,W.; Basten, R.J.I.; Jauregui Becker, J.M.; Blok ,J.; Hoekstra, S.; Kokkeler, F.G.M. // 2014
This paper presents a leaflet with design-for-maintenance guidelines. It aims at supporting developers of industrial equipment in their design-for-maintenance practices. The use of this leaflet ...
Supporting the Development of Lightweight Design Structures with Simple Methods in Early Stages
Posner, Benedikt; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2014
Mattheck [1] presents very simple methods for developing lightweight design structures based on bionic ideas. These methods can already be used to develop structures on a very low level of detail. ...
Supporting the Early Stages of the Product Design Process: Using an Integrated Collaborative Environment
Malins (1), Julian; Liapis (2), Aggelos; Kantorovitch (3), Julia; Markopoulous (4), Panos; Laing (1), Richard; Didaskalou (5), Alexandros; Coninx (6), Karin; Maciver (1), Fiona // 2014
Existing technologies designed to support professional product designers focus mainly on the modelling stages of the design process, while the early conceptual stages remain relatively unexplored. ...
Supporting the STEM Transition between School and University
Thomson, Avril; Sayer, Phillip; McLaren, Andrew; Little, Derek // 2014
This paper sets out to review the relationship between Schools and Universities in the West of Scotland with the strategic aim of widening access to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and ...
Taxonomy of Procedures and Design Framework to Enable Flexibility in Engineering Systems
Cardin, Michel-Alexandre // 2014
This paper presents a five-phase taxonomy capturing a set of systematic procedures to enable flexibility in the design and management of engineering systems operating under uncertainty. The taxonomy ...
Teaching Design Engineering in an Interdisciplinary Programme
Wits, Wessel; Homminga, Jasper; Endedijk, Maaike; Visscher, Klaasjan; Krab-H, Leonie // 2014
ATLAS, the Academy of Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences, is an interdisciplinary three-year Bachelor of Science honours programme for talented students that opened its doors in September 2013. ...
Teaching Digital Technologies in Industrial/Product Design Courses in Portugal
Dias, Ana Cristina; Almendra, Rita Assoreira; da Silva, Fernando Moreira // 2014
In full 21st century and living in a digital age, technology advancements have led to the development and use of digital media for product design projects’ support. It starts with education and ...
Teaching Ethics in Engineering and Design, the Necessity of Concurrent Engineering.
Gonz, Carlos Alberto // 2014
Mechatronics engineering is a discipline, which links together three different areas: mechanics, electronics and digital systems. This major, has proven its use in industry, it allows them to have ...
Technology and Interaction in the Realm of Social Design: Role, Influence and Value
In // 2014
Social design is the most commonly used term to identify an emergent design area that applies its process, thinking, skills and tools to answer complex social problems. Its practices, methods and ...
The Collaborative DSM: a new way to handle complex collaborative planning and scheduling processes (Members only )
Baudin, M.; Bonnal, P.; Ruiz, J.- P. // 2014
Planning and scheduling projects, but also maintenance activities in large scientific facilities result in complex dependencies between tasks. Handling such dependencies becomes a non-trivial problem ...
The Explainer: A Software Aid to Solve Complex Problems (Members only )
Steward, D. V. // 2014
This paper concerns using cause-and-effects to explain what causes behaviors. By explaining what would cause a requirement specification, the causes can be used as a design. The Explainer can also be ...
Towards Complexity Cost Management within Approaches for Developing Modular Product Families
Ripperda, Sebastian; Krause, Dieter // 2014
The development of modular product families aims for the reduction of companies’ complexity and of course the reduction of cost. But existing methods do not provide nor consider at all the cost ...
TOWARDS IDENTIFYING PATTERN IN ENGINEERING DOCUMENTS TO AID PROJECT PLANNING
Shi, L.; Gopsill ,J.A.; Snider ,C.M.; Jones ,S.L.; Newnes, L.; Culley ,S.J. // 2014
The increasing complexity of current engineering projects causes uncertainty for project execution, and creates challenges for project design and management. To attempt to reuse the information of ...
Traceability – A factor of integration and a method to deal with complexity
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The paper aims to summarize several important issues in researching of modelling and implementation of traceability frameworks in design engineering area. These issues are mainly focused to methods ...
TRAPPED ON THE WASTE NET: A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND PRIORITIZING THE CAUSES OF A CORPORATION’S LOW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE
Pess // 2014
This work describes a method for analyzing the Product Development Systems waste drivers and its causes. Although waste identification and elimination along the value chain has proven useful to PDS ...
User Involvement in Product and Service Development: A Literature Review
Tuomela, Saara; Helminen, Pia; Makinen, Samuli // 2014
A number of papers have introduced cases where users were incorporated into product or service development processes of companies. However, this literature is scattered and there is no consensus on ...
When Global Design Meets European Global Product Realisation- Design Techniques and Challenges
Advani, Resham; Frost, Katherine; Gwashavanhu, Elton; Linda, Sara; Rane, Sham; Read, Matthew; Samatar, Mohamoud; Shafiq, Sultan; Sharif, Mohammed // 2014
This paper explains the effect of group collaboration via distance communication with the emphasis on designing a new product. It furthermore highlights the challenges and barriers encountered during ...
Workshop “Product Design for Elderly” in China: Design Education and Experience
Langeveld, Lau // 2014
The summer workshop is held in Beijing, China from 15th of July to 3rd of August 2013 with 32 participants from five different Universities in Beijing. The objectives are getting experienced and ...
“We Try to Listen – But Do We Understand?” An Explorative Study about User Involvement in Technology-Driven Organisations
Abrell, Thomas; Benker, Andreas // 2014
Technology-driven organisations are facing new challenges to gain a competitive advantage. It becomes even more challenging to be a step ahead of the competition through technical advance while ...
A case study on conceptual design of solar thermal collectors using a collaborative framework of engineering design and product design tools
Loumakis, George; Wood, Bruce; Birse, Fred; Burek, Stas; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Rane, Sham // 2013
The case study presented in this paper shows a project performed by undergraduate students of two UK universities on the conceptual design of solar thermal collectors. Such products are normally ...
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.