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DESCRIPTION OF A COMPETENCE ORIENTED APPROACH FOR DESIGNING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS
Walter, Johanna; Paetzold, Kristin; Nitsch, Verena // 2015
Technology can be tremendously helpful in assisting the elderly to lead an independent lifestyle. However, using a deficit-oriented approach to characterizing these user groups can stigmatize them ...
Design a Management Systemfor P&G LWC (Members only )
Cheng, Yongliang // 2015
The University of Cincinnati (UC) and Procter and Gamble (P&G) founded Live Well Collaborative (LWC) in 2007 as a non-profit organization located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Currently, there is no useful ...
DESIGN ACUMEN
Petersen, Søren Ingomar // 2015
Over the past decade, design has earned the respect of most established firms and even cash-strapped entrepreneurial startups and their investors have begun to focus on design. They are becoming more ...
Design Analysis of Base Isolator Utilizing Magnetorheological Elastomer based Epoxidized Natural Rubber (Members only )
Muntaz Hana Ahmad Khairi1,a, Saiful Amri Mazlan1,b, Ku Zarina Ku Ahmad2,cUbaidillah1,3,d, Nurul Ain Abd Wahab1,e, Siti Aishah Abdul Aziz 1,f // 2015
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are viscoelastic solid whose rheological properties are controllable by magnetic field application. The purpose of this work is to use MRE as vibration isolation ...
Design and Evaluation of Inventive Avatars for Creativity and Innovation
Guegan, J.; Maranzana, N.; Barr, J. // 2015
A challenge today is to create favorable conditions for creativity while enabling geographically distant people to work together. In this context, we study the virtual and digital self representation ...
DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF DIAGNOSIS TOOL OF INCLUSION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN PLAYGROUNDS
Mejia Piedrahita, Tatiana // 2015
The last years in Medellin has been developed actions to create normative that promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in the different public spaces. Nevertheless even recreation is ...
DESIGN AS THE RESOLUTION OF PARADOXES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Morgan, Thea; McMahon, Chris // 2015
This paper presents an ethnomethodological case study of a student engineering design team during their final year design project. The results were analysed with reference to a theoretical framework, ...
DESIGN DRIVEN INNOVATION – MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCTS FOR LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NEPAL
Keitsch, Martina Maria // 2015
Well-designed products and services link to the ability of designers of interpreting needs, but they often struggle getting valuable contributions from users when developing innovative products and ...
DESIGN DRIVEN STARTUPS
Petersen, Søren Ingomar // 2015
This paper explores how market, technology and design execution risks influence a startups performance. First, we uncover relationships between market and technology risk and the startups ...
DESIGN FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: USEFULNESS OF RE-USE?
Walsh, Edwin Peter; Daems, Walter; Steckel, Jan; Peremans, Herbert; Baelus, Christiaan // 2015
Due to an increased need for Assistive Technology (AT) applications, governmental interest into reducing the total cost of providing AT applications is growing. A commonly reported high rate of AT ...
DESIGN FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE: AN ELABORATION-BASED APPROACH TO PERSUASION IN PRODUCT DESIGN
Montazeri, Soodeh; Panos, Papalambros; Rich, Gonzales // 2015
This paper investigates the premise that products can be designed in a principled persuasive way to induce behavior change; specifically it explores how designers can adopt behavior change theories ...
DESIGN FOR CONTENTED LIFE: A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK
Ashour, Ayman Fathy // 2015
This paper addresses design contribution to the happiness of individuals leading to a contented life. A framework for design for contented life is introduced. It includes four main components: ...
DESIGN FOR EMBODIMENT THROUGH SMART ARCHIVES
Rosa, Francesco; Viganò, Roberto; Rovida, Edoardo // 2015
The design of a new product begins with functional analysis, and then continues with conceptual solution. Only in final and somehow separate stages, the designer has to embody and then to design in ...
DESIGN FOR INFANTS IS NOT DESIGN FOR CHILDREN: ON THE QUEST OF TOOLS TO MODEL A METHOD TO DESIGN FOR INFANTS
Monsalve, Juliana; Maya, Jorge // 2015
Child Centred Design focuses on understanding children s contextual and experiential factors for design. However, the conventional user-designer interaction could not support the specific situation ...
DESIGN FOR MASS CUSTOMIZATION USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE: CASE-STUDY OF A BALLOON-POWERED CAR
Chen, Tian; Fritz, Stoeckli; Shea, Kristina // 2015
Additive Manufacturing offers unique advantages to produce customized designs. This paper demonstrates the capability for mass customization using Additive Manufacture through a case-study of a ...
DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEARABLE ACTIVITY TRACKERS
Kuru, Armagan; Erbug, Çigdem // 2015
Many people use wearable activity trackers to gather personal behavioral data, make better decisions, and make changes to their behavior. While the proliferation of new products on the market makes ...
DESIGN FOR RECOVERY - APPLYING MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS TO DEFINE GROUPINGS OF FRENCH WEEE PRE-TREATMENT OPERATORS
Alonso Movilla, Natalia; Zwolinski, Peggy // 2015
Electronic appliances can follow different pre-treatment processes once they reach their end-of-use phase. To ensure their best recovery, their design has to meet the needs of the operators that are ...
DESIGN FOR RETROFITTING
Coenen, Jenny; Ruiz, Valentina; Fernandez Hernando, Jose Manuel; Frouws, Koos // 2015
This paper explorers the possibilities to design a ship for a future 'sea change' like a major retrofit of the engine room. In order to assess the potential future beneficial impact of such design ...
DESIGN FOR SCALABILITY AND STRENGTH OPTIMISATION FOR COMPONENTS CREATED THROUGH FDM PROCESS
Qureshi, A.J.; Mahmood, Shahrain; Wong, W.L.E.; Talamona, Didier // 2015
Design scalability is a technique used in routine design and manufacturing to adapt existing design knowledge to varying requirements. Guidelines exist for design scalability for subtractive ...
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY – TRADE-OFF DILEMMAS FROM THE CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE
Shiu, Eric // 2015
Product designers always look at the functionality and aesthetics aspects when deciding on the features and appearance of a new product. More recently, as the environmental issue becoMES increasingly ...
DESIGN INNOVATION FOR SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS CHANGE
Thurgood, Clementine; Dorst, Kees; Bucolo, Sam; van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; Vermaas, Pieter // 2015
We present two approaches for addressing complex societal and business problems: frame creation and design led innovation. Both methods combine a broad systems approach to problem solving together ...
DESIGN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AS AN INTEGRATION OF FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE MODELLING AND DESIGN STRUCTURE MATRIX
Zhu, Guo-Niu; Hu, Jie; Qi, Jin; Gu, Chao-Chen; Peng, Ying-Hong // 2015
Design knowledge representation has been regarded as a key aspect in design processes, especially at the early stage of conceptual design as it establishes the basis for the subsequent design ...
DESIGN LEARNING MIND-SETS
Hamat, Basyarah; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Eris, Ozgur // 2015
It is postulated that students have prevailing mind-sets which influence the performance of their design learning during their university education. These mind-sets - when identified - can be ...
Design Management
Ledsome, Colin // 2015
There are many, sometimes conflicting definitions of both “design” and “management”. Each is an interplay between physical action in the real world and the mental picture the designer/manager has of ...
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.