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User centered research methods in postgraduate teaching
Lebbon, Cherie; Davies, Sarah; Shippen, James // 2009
Coventry University School of Art and Design has been a leader in postgraduate Automotive Design for over 12 years. Recently, a spread of targeted design MSc courses have been added to the School's ...
User Innovation Toolkits in Product Development: Qualitative Study in Shopping Center Design
Helminen, Pia; Ainoa, Juha // 2009
Understanding user needs is essential in product development. Transferring the user needs from the user to the manufacturer can be, however, difficult. In other words, the need-related information is ...
User-Designer Collaboration in the Design Process of Surgical Instruments: New Aspects for Annotation as a Communication Tool
Hisarciklilar, Onur; Rasoulifar, Rahi; Boujut, Jean-François; Thomann, Guillaume; Villeneuve, François // 2009
Today, collaboration is no more limited to the designers' sphere. Especially the design of products or systems dedicated to expert users requires the active participation of the users ...
Value – Function – Structure Modeling in an Ontological Representation of Product-Service Systems
Kim, Yong Se; Wang, Eric; Park, Myon Woong // 2009
An ontological representation of product-service systems (PSS) is presented, which could support the development of new computer-aided tools and frameworks for PSS design. In this ontology, a PSS ...
Virtual Dimensional Product Validation by Integration of Simulations
Stockinger, Andreas; Meerkamm, Harald // 2009
The process of virtual validation of product function has an important role in product development. It enables the product developer to design products taking different aspects like Design to Quality ...
VIS-able: a visual research gallery to provide inspiration for beautiful (and therefore usable) objects
Grundy, Catherine Anne; Blake, Andrew // 2009
This paper describes an important stage in the development of an on-line Visual Research Gallery, known as VIS-able. The web site is intended to inspire creative solutions across a range of design ...
Visualization Platforms for Conceptual Design
Opiyo, Eliab Zephania // 2009
In the research described in this paper, we used structured rule based analytical method, questionnaire survey method and expert evaluation method to systematically identify suitable visualization ...
We Need a Universal Design Project Outcome Performance Measurement Metric: A Discussion Based on Empirical Research
Skogstad, Philipp; Steinert, Martin; Gumerlock, Karl; Leifer, Larry // 2009
This paper aims to contribute and channel a discussion on the need for a universal outcome performance measurement for design projects. After introducing the problem verbally, an example situation of ...
A Constraint-based Approach to SustainableDesign and Development
Liang, H.; Mullineux, G.; Hammond, G. // 2008
A FRAMEWORK TO CLASSIFY PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
Kreimeyer, M.; Daniilidis, C.; Lindemann, U. // 2008
While process improvement projects have varying parameters (e.g. goals, timeline, etc.), there is a basic structure to planning such projects. Yet, there are few planning aids, and transferring the ...
A FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND PROJECT ROBUSTNESS
Gericke, K.; Schmidt-Kretschmer, M.; Blessing, L. // 2008
A multitude of projects fail the forecasts regarding costs, duration and customer requirements. Following the problem of deviations will be addressed with the focus on SMEs in the domain of ...
A NEW APPROACH TO IMPLEMENT THE REACH DIRECTIVE IN ENGINEERING DESIGN
Brissaud, D.; Lemagnen, M.; Mathieux, F. // 2008
The REACh regulation (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) has to be applied since 01/06/2007 (mandatory from 01/06/2009) by all the companies in Europe. It gives a new framework ...
A SYSTEM FOR HAPTIC TOLERANCE ANALYSIS REGARDING NON-IDEAL GEOMETRY
Wittmann, S.; Stockinger, A.; Stoll, T.; Paetzold, K. // 2008
Incomplete or wrong definition of tolerances can cause aesthetic and functional problems. In a virtual environment the visual representation is not precise enough to reveal small deviations. ...
A SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF OLDER DRIVERS REQUIREMENTS TO GATHER KNOWLEDGE TO BE USED BY DESIGN ENGINEERS
Flöck ,C.; Le Cardinal, J.; Mekhilef, M. // 2008
The challenge of our very next future is to design cars that face the specific needs of the growing number of older drivers. We suggest an approach that takes into account the whole system. Beside ...
A USER-CENTERED APPROACH TO DEVELOPING EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS
Restrepo, J.; McAloone, T. C.; Schlegel, T.; Lykke, J. // 2008
Current participatory design methods do not allow designers to gain the insight required to develop products with emerging technologies. This poses challenges to the designers, as input from users ...
ACTIVE CUSTOMER INTEGRATION TO INNOVATION NETWORKS: A PROJECT OUTLOOK
Kirschner, R.; Kain, A.; Franke, S.; Dick, B.; Lindemann, U. // 2008
The actual application of customer knowledge in the new product development process (NPD) is underdeveloped, especially in the environment of SME. The project described in the paper aims to develop ...
ANALYSIS AND OPTIMISATION OF DISASSEMBLY DEPTH DISTRIBUTION: AN APPLICATION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE REDESIGN TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AT END-OF-LIFE
Giudice, F.; Kassem, M. // 2008
The present paper proposes the application of a structured method for the analysis and reconfiguration of the disassembly depth distribution of components making up an electronic device with the aim ...
APPROACH ON THE CONTROL OF ITERATIONS IN THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
Krehmer, H.; Stöber, C.; Meerkamm, H. // 2008
Due to the increasing complexity of products as well as the product development the course of the product development process is not foreseeable in detail; it develops iteratively in its progression. ...
CLASSIFICATION OF TOOLS AND METHODS FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Kaiser, J.M.; Conrad, J.; Koehler, C.; Wanke, S.; Weber, C. // 2008
Knowledge management is a very important topic in engineering design and the application of information technologies is an important part in the implementation of knowledge management. The aim of ...
DECISION AIDING TOOLS IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY
Montagna, F.; Vittone, R. // 2008
The elements of complexity and uncertainty present in the process of New Product Development (NPD) require a comprehensive approach to deal with a problem that involves people, technology and ...
DESIGN KNOWLEDGE INDEXING IN RELATIONAL DATABASE
Rohde, D.; Pavkovic, N.; Aurisicchio, M. // 2008
The aim of this research is the improvement of the knowledge management process for long-lasting product development projects, which repeat themselves in cycles of 3-5 years. To find and propose ...
DEVELOPING PROCESS INTEGRATIVE STRUCTURING OF DOCUMENTS CONTAINING PRODUCT INFORMATION
Lauer, W. M.; Lindemann, U. // 2008
In today’s very complex product development processes, a major problem is to provide engineers with the right information at the right time. Engineers need to search for existing product information ...
ECO-DESIGN DIRECTIONS: EVOLUTIONS OF THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION
La Rocca, F. // 2008
The aim of the paper is to take into consideration the diverse approaches to the issue of sustainable design, focusing in particular on some of the major problems rising from the relation of the ...
Emulation of Real Life Environments for User Testing
Gordon, Bethan; Wilgeroth, Paul; Griffiths, Roger // 2008
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.