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Insights on Automated Design using Topology Optimization and Its Implications on Tangible Design (Members only )
Christian, Mark; Manuel, E.; Ting Lin, Po // 2015
Computational design procedures have been more widely accepted during the past decades due to the improvements in computing technologies. Together with this, rapid advancements in the algorithms and ...
INTEGRATION OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES INTO EARLY PHASES OF PRODUCT DESIGN - A CASE STUDY
Kett, Susan Gretchen; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Universal design (UD) is a strategy for designing societal and individual living environments. We outline how its generic guidelines need more concretization to be applicable to product development ...
INTRODUCING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN TO THE STUDENTS OF RENAISSANCE ENGINEERING PROGRAMME: A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Sathikh, Peer // 2015
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, founded in 1991, is amongst the largest engineering universities in the world. NTU offers an integrated engineering programme that admits about 50 ...
IT'S NOT PERSONAL: CAN LOGBOOKS PROVIDE INSIGHTS INTO ENGINEERING PROJECTS?
Snider, Chris; McAlpine, Hamish; Gopsill, JaMES A.; Jones, Simon; Lei, Shi; Hicks, Ben // 2015
Engineering projects are often large, complex, high-value, high-risk, and distributed. As a result, it is vital to monitor and understand what is happening within each as it progresses, and highly ...
MANAGE. CREATE. PLAY. PRACTICES FOR TEACHING DESIGN PROJECT MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE CREATION OF BOARD GAMES
Moreira e Silva Bernardes, Maurício; Gaiger de Oliveira, Geísa // 2015
In Brazil, it can be seen that courses and lectures in most undergraduate design programs usually focus
more on design creation than on project management itself. As a result, undergraduate ...
Men – Missing in Menstrual Management Design
Murthy, L. // 2015
Few men have dared to tread into the arena of menstrual management design. A biological phenomenon – a body expulsion unique to women, menstruation is connected to every man – through his mother, ...
Meta–Contents of Design Creativity: Extraction of the Key Concepts that Form the Sense of Design
Nagai, Y.; Junaidy, D.W. // 2015
This study aims to detect the meta-contents of design creativity in modern society, which has shaped the development of such designed products. To identify the meta-contents of design creativity, we ...
MODULATION OF AMBIGUITY, A COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF REPRESENTATIONS DURING IDEA GENERATION
Kasatkina, Olga; de Vries, Erica; Masclet, Cédric; Boujut, Jean-François // 2015
The role of the representations that are developed in creativity sessions is often overlooked as a potential factor, which can influence the progression and the results of those sessions. Through the ...
MULTIPLE MEDIA STIMULUS IN PRODUCT DESIGN TEACHING: THE IMPORTANCE OF RICH MEDIA ENVIRONMENT
Skulberg, Harald // 2015
This paper investigates how a rich media environment influence student’s learning outcome within industrial design education. Through a case study focusing on a student project in product design, the ...
NAVIGATION SYSTEM BASED ON HUMANE ENGINEERING FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS
Nagai, Yukari; Kihara, Hironori // 2015
This paper discusses a social design by humane engineering, from multiple viewpoints of design domains, which consists engineering design, information design, product design, and community design. ...
NEW APPROACHES TO TEACHING DESIGN FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Junk, Stefan; Matt, Rebecca // 2015
Additive Manufacturing and Reverse Engineering have increasingly been gaining in importance over the past years. This paper investigates the current status of the implementation of these new ...
ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY CONSTRUAL THROUGH DESIGN PROCESS
Pavel, Nenad; Stoltenberg, Einar // 2015
Due to rapid changes in technologies and the market, institutions are not only changing their activities, but also their physical environment. Leadership tends to lead organizations by means of its ...
Outline of a Practice-Oriented Perspective on Collaborative Creative Design
Richter, C.; Allert, H. // 2015
Even though there has been a considerable interest in creativity and design as collaborative efforts more recently, there is yet a need for models that provide an integrative perspective on ...
Paper Robot: A Design Activity to Increase Beginner’s Prototyping Confidence with Microcontrollers
Analytis, S.; Sadler, J.; Cutkosky, M. R. // 2015
This paper describes a creative design activity to introduce engineering students to mechatronic prototyping. Our goal was to find a creative task to increase student confidence and skills in ...
Parent-Child Co-Creative Learning: Collectivity and Individuality in Creativity
Junaidy, D. W.; Nagai, Y. // 2015
This study focused on parent-child interaction, specifically, formative play and communication in stimulating co-creative play. The findings indicate that indulging in role-taking behavior (i.e., ...
PERSONAL VALUES AS A CATALYST FOR MEANINGFUL INNOVATIONS: SUPPORTING YOUNG DESIGNERS IN COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
Onselen, Lenny van; Valkenburg, Rianne // 2015
The overall aim of this research is to assist junior designers in using their personal values and those of others for creating meaningful innovations. Studying the use of values in design is new to ...
REGGIO EMILIA ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Vignoli, Matteo; D'Onghia, Francesco // 2015
How do we prepare future engineers to face 21th century challenges?This paper confronts the issue of what it really means to be an engineer and how to design a learning experience that influence the ...
Role of Immersive Virtual Reality in Fostering Creativity Among Architecture Students
Pandey, M.; Luthra, V.; Yammiyavar, P. G.; Anita, P.Y. // 2015
Spatial reasoning is the a fundamental skill for in the profession of architecture. Space visualisation and it’s mental manipulation is required to conceptualise a design. An architect with better ...
SCULPTURAL CUBISM IN PRODUCT DESIGN: USING DESIGN HISTORY AS A CREATIVE TOOL
Frimpong Acheampong, Augustine; Berg, Arild // 2015
In Jan Michl's "Taking down the Bauhaus Wall: Towards living design history as a tool for better
design", he explains how the history of design can become a tool for future design practices. ...
SKETCHING AS A THINKING PROCESS
Leblanc, Tatjana // 2015
Sketching is a form of communication and as such particularly effective for illustrating ideas or
sharing thoughts. For designers, sketching is an indispensable tool that helps them ...
SURPRISE AS A SITUATED PHENOMENON
Becattini, Niccolo; Borgianni, Yuri; Cascini, Gaetano; Rotini, Federico // 2015
Among the studies dedicated to design creativity, a significant attention is given to the investigation of its dimensions, such as novelty and usefulness. The underlying assumption is that an ...
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXCELLENT DESIGNERS – FINDINGS FROM AN INTERVIEW STUDY WITH SWEDISH INNOVATORS
Axelsson, Louise; Blome, Simon; Nourbarpour, Dennis; Naenzen, Johan; Yvonne, Platon; Malmqvist, Johan Lars // 2015
Some designers are more successful than others. They have the ability to repeatedly generate new and innovative solutions to challenging problems. In this paper, we refer to designers who possess ...
The Creativity Gap in Chinese Knitwear Industry (Members only )
Zhang, X.; Gale, C.; Eckert, C. // 2015
As products have become more homogenous, the
Chinese knitwear market has been shrinking during the last
decade. This paper argues that this is due to a lack of design
creativity in Chinese ...
THE EFFECT OF PROFILING ON TEAM DYNAMICS AND CREATIVITY
Cayzer, Steve // 2015
How do we, as educators, create and support effective teamwork with our students? This study focuses
on the role of profiling tools. In particular we look at the use of such tools to create diverse, ...
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.