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Temporal Aspects in Lifecycle-Oriented Planning of Product-Service-Systems
Hepperle,Clemens; Orawski,Robert; Langer, Stefan; Mörtl,Markus; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
In order to cope with the increasing complexity of today’s products, companies face the fundamental challenge to share an integrated perspective on the lifecycle of products and corresponding ...
Temporality in Static Visual Narratives: Based on Event, Time, Space & Place relation
K. Pimenta, Sherline; Poovaiah, Ravi // 2011
Stories are a sequence of events that unfold in time and space. Temporality is one of the fundamental elements that makes a Static Visual Narrative (SVN).To understand ‘time’ in an SVN, one has to ...
Testing Against Requirements
Stechert ,Carsten; Vietor,Thomas // 2011
Project monitoring is a crucial component of product development. The product development has to focus on the actual market needs (requirements), avoid errors, and guarantee the required high ...
THE BENFITS AND PITFALLS OF DIGITAL DESIGN TOOLS
Marion, Tucker J; Fixson, Sebastian // 2011
Digital design has become pervasive to all aspects of the development process. The potential benefits of digital design include rapid iterations, the development of quick prototypes, and the ability ...
THE CENTRAL ROLE OF EXPLORATION IN DESIGNING BUSINESS CONCEPTS AND STRATEGY
Kirjavainen, Senni; Björklund, Tua Annika // 2011
Design thinking is described as a combination of thinking and acting that leads to new solution possibilities for design problems. Though traditionally linked to the design of objects and services, ...
THE CHALLENGE OF HANDLING MATERIAL INFORMATION FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES
Janus, Andreas; Tartler, Dieter; Krehmer, Hartmut; Wartzack, Sandro // 2011
This article will analyze the challenge of handling material information from different sources and different phases in the development process of the automotive industry. The needs for various kinds ...
THE CONCEPT OF ECOLOGICAL LEVERS - A PRAGMATIC APPROACH FOR THE ELICITATION OF ECOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS
Zhao, Shulin; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
This paper uses the concept of product properties to analyze three different dimensions a product development has to cope with: technical, cost and ecological requirements. Objective is to highlight ...
The Construction of My Perspective
Hari, K. P // 2011
In this paper, I reflect on my long immersion in textual materials from diverse domains of cognitive sciences,philosophy of mind, neuroscience, biology, social sciences, architecture, technology and ...
The Contextual Knowledge of Design
Linder, Emma // 2011
Current industrial practice requires industrial designers to perform a range of professional roles. In order to prepare design students for a variety of challenges posed by different industrial ...
THE CONTINOUS “FUZZY FRONT END” AS A PART OF THE INNOVATION PROCESS
Stevanovi // 2011
This work treats the method of creating and the importance of developing new product concepts as a basis for the future products development. Changes occurred in recent years have influenced ...
The Design Approach and Activity-Led Learning
Tovey, Michael John; Davies, John // 2011
Two approaches to design and engineering pedagogy have been developed at Coventry University. They are the Design Approach which is being applied in the Industrial Design Department and Activity Led ...
The Design Management Education in Brazil: a Qualitative Analysis of Six Undergraduate Courses
Dziobczenski, Paulo Roberto Nicoletti; Bernardes, Maurício Moreira e Silva // 2011
The insertion of design management has increasingly become a discipline that helps companies to remain competitive in their markets, through the increase in quality, launching and improvement of ...
THE DESIGNEXCHANGE: SUPPORTING THE DESIGN COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Roschuni, Celeste; Agogino, Alice M.; Beckman, Sara L. // 2011
The study of design – and more specifically, the quality of the process of design – has been shown to have high impact and leverage on the quality and success of engineered products. As design ...
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: INVESTIGATING THE PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF ENGINEERS
McAlpine, Hamish Charles; Hicks, Ben; Tiryakioglu, Can // 2011
Whilst there exists a significant amount of work exploring the Personal Information Management (PIM) practices of various general groups of people (such as ‘knowledge workers’), or specific PIM tools ...
The Elephant in the Design Office
Ledsome, Colin // 2011
This paper aims to confront the problem of the apparent division in the design field and show ways for product designers and design engineers to understand each other better. In doing so, the common ...
The Epistemic Role of Artefacts in Creative Design and Knowledge Creation
Richter, Christoph; Allert, Heidrun // 2011
Although the crucial role of shared artefacts as a means to create common understanding, to ground discourse and to pursue novel ideas has been widely recognized, the concept of artefact appears to ...
THE EVOLUTION OF INFORMATION WHILE BUILDING CROSS-DOMAIN MODELS OF A DESIGN: A VIDEO EXPERIMENT
Ahmad, Naveed; Wynn, David C; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Building cross-domain models of the elements involved in design – such as requirements, functions, components and design activities can help generate and document design information. In this paper an ...
The Great Challenge, Staging the Design Education for the next 20 Years
Baggerud, Bjørn; Rismoen, Jon; Boks, Casper // 2011
The Department of Product Design at NTNU and its product design curriculum will soon celebrate their 20-year anniversary. The curriculum has been updated continuously and adjustments have been made ...
The Hewlett-Packard Sensory Home Project
Swan, Bret; Howell, Bryan; Solomon, Mark; Martin, Paul // 2011
In the Brigham Young University (BYU) School of Technology, we have a unique opportunity to combine art and engineering disciplines to explore a variety of industry-sponsored projects. Faculty in ...
THE IMPACT OF EXAMPLES ON CREATIVE DESIGN: EXPLAINING FIXATION AND STIMULATION EFFECTS
Agogué, Marine; Kazakçi, Akin; Weil, Benoit; Cassotti, Mathieu // 2011
Converging evidences have indicated that the ability to generate creative ideas could be limited by recently activated knowledge such as examples of solutions. However, neuroimaging studies have ...
THE IMPACT OF SAFETY STANDARDS AND POLICIES ON OPTIMAL AUTOMOBILE DESIGN
Hoffenson, Steven; Papalambros, Panos Y. // 2011
Much of the recent decline in road traffic injuries and fatalities is attributed to regulations imposed by governments and crash test ratings produced by public and private institutions. These crash ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY IN IT PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN ELECTRONIC IDENTITY CARD
Köppen, Eva; Rauth, Ingo; Schnjakin, Maxim; Meinel, Christoph // 2011
Although there is a great interest in user driven innovation, IT industry still shows a strong focus on technology driven innovation development. Understanding the perspective and social context of ...
The Importance of Prototyping for Education in Product Innovation Engineering
Berglund,Anders; Grimheden,Martin // 2011
Newsweek Magazine recently published a list of the ‘world’s best design programs’. The eye catching notion was the predominance towards active learning, and in particular the extensive use of ...
The Importance of Teaching Functional Analysis in Product Design Courses
Rizzuti, Sergio // 2011
The paper describes experiences and reflections, matured at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Calabria (Italy) during the last decade, in the courses of Engineering Design Methods, held ...
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.