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Final Year Induction - Re-motivation and Re-engagement
Maxine Humphries-Smith, Tania; Glasspool, Chris // 2012
This paper considers design education in practice and reports on a new experience undertaken at Bournemouth University with final year BA/BSc Product Design students. Increasingly, students returning ...
Find Your Inspiration: Exploring Different Levels of Abstraction in Textual Stimuli
Gonalves, M.; Cardoso, C.; Badke-Schaub, P. // 2012
The selection of inspirational sources is a crucial step while designing, which potentially can enhance creativity. However, empirical investigations have demonstrated a dual-effect that some stimuli ...
Finding parameter constraint networks in a product system
Hirao, A.; Oizumi, K.; Aoyama, K. // 2012
Several research papers on DSM have argued that, in order to realize the advanced management of product development, it is very useful to have a dependency network of parameters. In order to benefit ...
Flexibility analysis of a supply chain using Design Structure Matrix
Yousefi, Z.; Malaek, S.M.B.; Emamipour, S. // 2012
Now days supply chain systems operate in an operational environment with high uncertainty. Customer globalization, increase of natural and manmade disasters, outsourcing in far distances ...
FLEXIBILITY OF CHOICE AND PERCEIVED IMPACT OF USING Design methods
Owusu, I. A.; Daalhuizen ,J. J.; Stappers, P. J. // 2012
Existing studies show that designers that feel free to adapt a method to the situation at hand tend to perform better than designers that either ‘muddle through’ without a method or that strictly ...
For Whom Are We Prototyping? A Review of the Role of Conceptual Prototyping in Engineering Design Creativity
Berglund, A.; Leifer, L. // 2012
n transporting ideas into concrete manifestations. Prototypes unlock cognitive association mechanisms related to visualization, prior experience, and interpersonal communication in ways that favour ...
Form, Function, Emotion: Designing for the Human Experience
Elaver, Richard Anthony // 2012
The goal of this paper is to introduce an approach to teaching design as a cultural act of meaning-making. This has the potential benefit of making better-informed participants in the system of ...
Formation of the DSM Industry Special Interest Group (DSMiSIG)
Stowe, H. A.; Paynting, R.; Scheurmann, E. // 2012
This paper is intended to make the existing DSM community and new potential industry users aware of the formation of a DSM Industrial Special Interest Group or DSMiSIG, and introduce them to its ...
Forming a Mindset: Design Students' Preconceptions about the Usefulness of Systematic Methods
Person, Oscar; Daalhuizen, Jaap; Gattol, Valentin // 2012
Teaching students to use systematic design methods effectively is not straightforward. While method teaching often focuses on the procedural aspects of method usage (e.g., what steps to take and in ...
Formulation of a Questionnaire to Assess the Success of the Introductory Phase of Lean Development
Helten, Katharina; Lindemann, Udo // 2012
As a philosophy, its introduction requires a lot of knowledge on change management and organizational ...
Foroba Yelen: Portable Solar Lighting and Sustainable Strategies for Remove Malian Villages
Hall, Ashley; Konate, Boukary; Kulkarni, Amrita // 2012
Foroba Yelen (‘collective light’ in the Malian Bambara language) is a collaboration between staff and students from the Innovation Design Engineering dual masters programme at the Royal College of ...
From Design Education to User-Driven Innovation and Back Again
Tollestrup, Christian; Eriksen, Kaare // 2012
Can distilled design methods for non-designers to user-driven innovation inform design education of Industrial Designers? In 2010 a project on employee driven innovation in the Hospital Sector with ...
FROM DESIGN RESEARCH TO RESEARCH DESIGN - TRANSFER OF DESIGN THEORY TO NATURAL SCIENCE
Schöfer ,M.; Maranzana, N.; Aoussat ,A.; Bersano ,G. // 2012
Researchers in natural science must create new knowledge in ever more specialized disciplines and at the same time indicate the economic and scientific value of their work. In this article we ...
From Different Angles: Exploring and Applying the Design Potential of Video
Pasman, Gert // 2012
Recent developments in both hardware and software have brought video within the scope of design students as a new visual design tool. Being more and more equipped with cameras, for example in their ...
From Gut Feeling to a Structured, Summative Assessment of Design Competencies
Schelling, Jasper; Leurs, Bas; Best, Saskia; Mulder // 2012
In the current work, we introduce a summative method for assessing the whole set of students’ design competencies demonstrated in their final design project when graduating an interactive media ...
From Product Designer to PSS Designer – How to Educate Engineers to become PSS Designers
Dill, Anna Katharina; Bohn, Andrea; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2012
Today’s universities teach conventional product design for mechanical engineers and service engineering for business administration students. This separated thinking and teaching of design categories ...
From TRIZ to Technical Creativity Teaching
Choulier, Denis; Weite, Pierre Alain // 2012
This paper presents a reflection on a teaching module on creative design in mechanics. Primarily based on the teaching of TRIZ tools, it evolved towards technical creativity (creative design) to ...
FUNCTIONAL MODELLING PERSPECTIVES ACROSS DISCIPLINES: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Eisenbart ,B.; Blessing, L.; Gericke, K. // 2012
The research presented in this paper discusses the different understandings of function which hamper shared functional modelling. Function models proposed in literature from various disciplines are ...
Functional structure based change assessment in product design
Oizumi, K.; Aoyama, K. // 2012
Product development projects often face change requests while the project is still going on. To decide whether to accept these changes, not only the outcome expected to obtain by fulfilling changes, ...
Future Wellbeing: Conference Driven?
Curtis, Holly Emma // 2012
This paper considers the effect of determined conference themes, government legislation and key events in design education in order to ascertain the fundamental drivers of change. Through analysis of ...
Future Wellbeing: Design or Politic Driven
Crisp, Alan Roy; Dale, James; Curtis, Holly // 2012
The authors are principal lecturers in product design within Higher Education [HE]; Curtis is currently a final year honours student associated with their course and two programmes of research which ...
Future Wellbeing: Smart Design or Burnt Socio-Economic Policies
Crisp, Alan R; Arthur, Leslie // 2012
This paper identifies and challenges the philosophies of contemporary design paradigms particularly those associated with the new ‘buzz’ term ‘smart design’; now synonymous with product design; and ...
Generating a network of information dependencies automatically
Senescu, R. R.;Head, A. W.; Steinert, M.; Fischer, M. A. // 2012
Creating design structure matrices (DSM) requires hours of up front effort. Though previous research demonstrated a return on investment for applying DSM methods to project planning and ...
GENERATING SIMULINK AND STATEFLOW MODELS FROM SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS
Heinzemann, C.; Pohlmann, U.; Rieke ,J.; Schäfer, W.; Sudmann, O.; Tichy, M. // 2012
Much of the innovation in today’s technical systems is only possible by the use of embedded software. This is especially true in the case of system of systems where autonomous systems coordinate ...
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.