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Participate! A critical investigation into the relationship between participation and empowerment in design for development
Fladvad Nielsen, Brita // 2012
Participatory design methods are embraced by most design practitioners and academics working with design for development; design aiming for empowerment and poverty alleviation. That participatory ...
Product Sound Design in Education
Langeveld, Lau; van Egmond, Rene; Jansen, Reinier // 2012
Product Sound Design is an elective course of the Master of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. The educational goal of the course is to make students consciously ...
Reduction of Uncertainty by Sensitivity Analysis and context-specifc Data Processing within virtual Property Validation
Reitmeier, Jochen; Paetzold, Kristin // 2012
Particularly, in the early stages of a development project, designers have to deal with a comparatively high data uncertainty. Virtual product development is essentially dependent on simulation ...
The Creative Engineer: Sketching for Dummies
Daniel, John // 2012
Earlier studies demonstrate the importance of visualizing problems, and how the sketch manages to catch the ambiguity of the design process. It creates new ways for idea generation in an individual ...
The Effects of Technology Readiness and Service Design on Service Experience Quality in Tourism
Ho, S. S.; Wang, Y. C.; Huang, C. C.; Sung, T. J. // 2012
Although past studies have advocated that a technology-oriented service could be treated as one of competitive advantages for the tourism industry, few empirical evidence was found to indicate ...
Tolerance analysis of mechanism taking into account the interactions between deviations using meta-models
Walter, Michael; Sprügel, Tobias; Wartzack, Sandro // 2012
A product’s functionality depends largely on the interaction of its components and their geometries. Hence, tolerance analyses are used to determine the effects of deviations on a functional key ...
Towards a platform for New Concept Development: when kansei and design-thinking approaches meet
Gentner, Alexandre; Bouchard, Carole; Esquivel Elizondo, Daniel; Favart, Carole // 2012
This paper, part of a PhD research, focuses on ways to improve new concept development (NCD) activities. This research is done in collaboration with the Kansei Design (KD) division of Toyota Motor ...
Towards a Process Model for the Development of Light, Mechatronic Products
Luedeke, Tobias; Vielhaber, Michael // 2012
Existing process models for the development of mechatronic systems do not consider the task for weight reduction and its positive effects for the manufacturing and usage phase of systems, e.g. ...
USE OF METHODS OF SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR SIMULATION PLANNING
Reitmeier ,J.; Paetzold, K. // 2012
Sensitivity analyses focus the parameter sensitivity of a solution providing both quantitative and qualitative conclusions. They aim to increase the confidence in a model and associated statements ...
A META MODEL OF THE INNOVATION PROCESS TO SUPPORT THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS USING STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT
Kortler, Sebastian; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
The innovation process is characterized by numerous interactions of numerous domains. Cyclic interdependencies intensify the pressure in terms of quality and schedule, causing shortened testing ...
A METHODOLOGY FOR DESIGNING A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM BASED ON CUSTOMER PREFERENCES
Jomaa, Inčs; Poirson, Emilie; Da Cunha, Catherine; Petiot, Jean-François // 2011
This paper presents a contribution to design an online preference based system. The objective of the system is to assist a customer in the products selection process. Current e-commerce ...
A Review of Open ICT Tools for Collaborative Teaching & Learning
Bohemia, Erik; Turnock, Chris // 2011
The Open ICT Tools project explored the use of open source Web 2.0 applications to facilitate collaboration between School of Design at Northumbria University and its international business and ...
A Service Approach to Course Development
Watt, Cameron; Ely, Philip; Chapman, Damian // 2011
Like many other organizations in both the private and public sectors Higher Education (HE) Institutions are facing challenging and traumatic times as the UK becomes further and mired in the worst ...
A STRUCTURE FOR REPRESENTING PROBLEM FORMULATION IN DESIGN
Dinar, Mahmoud; Shah, Jami J.; Langley, Pat; Hunt, Glen R.; Campana, Ellen // 2011
Much study has been done on the process of design and problem formulation is believed to play a major role in a creative design of high quality. Yet, it has gained less attention. We propose a ...
A VALUE-CENTRIC QFD FOR ESTABLISHING REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION
Zhang, Xinwei; Auriol, Guillaume; Monceaux, Anne; Baron, Claude // 2011
Quality function deployment (QFD) is commonly recognized as a tool or methodology for developing customer-focused products. There is, however, no explicit clarification about customer values in QFD. ...
ADDRESSING THE RISKS OF GLOBAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Hansen, Zaza Nadja Lee; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2011
Offshoring various stages in the product development process – from engineering tasks like R&D and design to manufacturing activities - can impact the development process, the product and the ...
An Academic Design Methodology for Electrical Mobility products - from Necessity to Functional Prototype
Osorio, Gómez; Gilberto, Mejía; Gutiérrez, Ricardo; Sierra ,Zuluaga; Luis, Fernando // 2011
The Product Design Engineering (PDE) program at EAFIT University – Colombia has been the first in its kind at local level, searching for a good compromise between both engineering and industrial ...
AN AGENT-BASED SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DESIGN ENGINEERS IN THE EMBODIMENT DESIGN PHASE
Kratzer, Martin; Rauscher, Michael; Binz, Hansgeorg; Goehner, Peter // 2011
Today, product development is dominated inter alia by a complex and interdisciplinary working environment. As a consequence, several problems come up: design engineers need a huge amount of knowledge ...
AN EXAMINATION OF THE APPLICATION OF PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT CYCLE IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Lodgaard, Eirin; Aasland, Knut Einar // 2011
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is a high level methodology for achieving continuous improvement that has been a basic element of the total quality management movement. It is a practical tool and is ...
Application of QFD for Enabling Environmentally Conscious Design
Rathod,Gopinath ;Vinodh,S; Madhyasta.U. R // 2011
Increasing competition among themanufacturing organizations recognizes environmental consciousness as an important concept for surviving in the competitive world. Environmental friendliness has ...
Application of QFD to Mechanize the Manufacturing of the Jaipur Foot
Amirthakasi,Pankajalakshmi; Jetti,Sagar Santi ; Srinivasan,Sujatha // 2011
The currentmanufacturing process of the Jaipur foot involves laborious, repetitive and non-standard techniques.Most of the process steps involve manual trial and error methods. This results in ...
Approaches to a Cross-Cultural Engineering Design Theory
Brezing, Alexander Nikolaus; Childs, Peter; Yim, Hyunjune; Bland, Paul Wilson; Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick // 2011
Engineering Design Theory as an integral part of engineering education serves the purpose of structuring the actions and thinking processes of practitioners in order to increase the efficiency of the ...
Assessing creativity: proposition
Askland, Hedda Haugen; Ostwald, Michael J; Williams, Anthony // 2011
The assessment of creative works is one of the most contentious issues facing contemporary design educators. This problem was first recognised by Donald Schön (1985, 1987) in his early work of ...
ASSESSING QUALITY OF IDEAS IN CONCEPTUAL MECHANICAL DESIGN
Lewis, William P; Field, Bruce W; Weir, John G // 2011
A recurring theme in engineering design is the need to upgrade the performance of existing systems and products as potential defects overlooked in the original design come to light during operation ...
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.