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A Design Science Approach to Analytical Product Design

Frischknecht, Bart; Gonzalez, Rich; Papalambros, Panos; Reid, Tahira // 2009
Product design involves many diverse disciplines and is often treated as an experience-based skill based on an apprenticeship learning process. While this is a valuable approach, it can be greatly ...

A Generic Tool to Study Human Design Activities

Kan, Jeff Wai Tak; Gero, John S. // 2009
This paper reports on the results of using an ontologically-based generic approach to carry out protocol analyses of designers. The Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) ontology has been proposed as the ...

A Method for Identifying Requirements Critical to Mass Reduction Using DSMs and DMMs

McLellan, J. M.; Maier, J. R. A.; Fadel, G. M.; Mocko, G. M. // 2009

A practical approach to product design for future worlds using scenario-development.

Eggink, Wouter; Reinders, Angele; van der Meulen, Barend // 2009
The focus of consumer product design is shifting from primarily offering functionality, towards experience and emotion driven product characteristics. At the same time the functioning of products is ...

A Problem Decomposition Method for Conceptual Design

Sarkar,Somwrita; Dong,Andy ; Gero,S.John // 2009
In this paper, based on ndings from situated cognition, we argue that human reasoning is characterized by an ability to dynamically re-organize knowledge available in an experience, and re-construct ...

A Quality Function Deployment Method Pattern Language for EfficientDesign

Rogers, Damian; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is widely used throughout design processes to increase customer satisfaction. However, the method is sometimes not clearly understood and is at times confusing in ...

An Empirical Study of Energy Efficiency of Clothes Dryers

Lee, Jay; Hoeller, Norbert; Rogers, Damian; Musnier, Samuel; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
The domestic clothes dryer is one of the most energy-consumptive appliances in the residential sector, but there has been relatively little work to study its environmental aspects and improve upon ...

An Exploration of the Human Element in Collaboration

Hunter, Matthew; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
In this paper, the authors propose that there is an inconsistency in the understanding of collaboration and of the collaborator because of a contradiction between attitudinal and behavioural ...

Comparing creative behaviours observed when D and D sketch modelling and when using CAD

Musta'amal, Aede Hatib; Norman, Eddie; Hodgson, Tony // 2009
At E&PDE08, the authors presented a paper that demonstrated links between the use of computeraided design (CAD) when designing and a 'creative behaviours model' derived from published research into ...

Design for extreme environment: experience of Russian MD course

Garin, Nickolay; Usenyuk, Svetlana; Panova, Maria; Kukanov, Denis // 2009
Russia is the largest northern polycultural country, i.e. the territory of environmental and cultural extremes. The issue of comfortable human existence may be solved by creating a 'new culture' as ...

Designing Adaptable Buildings

Schmidt III, R.; Austin, S.;Brown, D. // 2009

Development of a framework for assessing sustainability in new product development

Sutcliffe, Laura Francesca Rose; Maier, Anja Martina; Moultrie, James; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
The area of sustainability in business is crowded with discussion and tools that are geared towards change at the organisational level (e.g. Corporate Social Responsibility). At the product level, ...

Education of T-shaped Technical Innovation (MBA) Managers

Gerson, Philips M.; Ramond, Bruno // 2009
The Open-Dynamic Design research and experiments within an international network learned that the key for successful Technical Innovation are T-shaped engineers, with a solid technical foundation ...

Experiments Comparing Function Structures to Affordance Structures

Maier, Jonathan R. A.; Sandel, Janna; Fadel, Georges M. // 2009
The objective of the reported experiments is to quantify the differences between two different representations of a product: function structures commonly used in systematic engineering design, and ...

Exploring Knowledge Transfer in a Society of Designers

Gómez de Silva Garza, Andrés; Gero, John S. // 2009
This paper presents an approach to understanding designing that includes societal effects. We use a multi-agent system to simulate the interactions between two types of agents, those that produce ...

Exploring the Role of Social Learning on Team Mental Models

Singh,Vishal; Dong,Andy; Gero,S.John // 2009
This paper presents a computational model developed to study the role of different modes of social learning on the formation of team mental models (TMM). In this model, the TMM is formed over time as ...

Generating Design Structure Matrices and Domain Mapping Matrices using SysML

McLellan, J. M.; Maier, J. R. A.; Fadel, G. M.; Mocko, G. M. // 2009

Hierarchical Affordance Modeling

Maier, Jonathan R. A.; Mocko, Gregory; Fadel, Georges M. // 2009
The theory of affordances has been adapted by the authors into a comprehensive high-level approach to design known as affordance based design. One of the features that distinguishes the affordance ...

Learning to Collaborate During Team Designing: Some Preliminary Results fromMeasurement-Based Tools

Gero, S.John; Kan,W. T.Jeff // 2009
This paper reports on preliminary results of an explorative study of a protocol analysis of team learning while designing using in-situ data. Two measurement-based frameworks are proposed. One ...

Making intelligent products for a better world

De Grande, Guido; Baelus, Chris // 2009
Product design education has a special relationship with respect to the design of electronic products. Should students be able to design complete electronic schemes and develop PCB's? Is a working ...

Product Designers get inspired and delighted by an engineering imagery database

Langeveld, Lau; Vergeest, Joris // 2009
Design courses in the bachelor and master program deliver all kinds of product information. The product designer can reuse the information for design inspiration. Design Research projects at the TU ...

Realization of Modern Educational Concepts in Engineering Design

Meerkamm, Harald; Stockinger, Andreas; Tremmel, Stephan; Wartzack, Sandro // 2009
This paper gives an overview of engineering design education at University .... Due to the transformation of the traditional German degree programs to an educational system based on two cycles ...

Reducing and Perceiving Design Fixation: Initial Results from an NSF-Sponsored Workshop

Linsey, Julie; Tseng, Ian; Fu, Katherine; Cagan, Jonathan; Wood, Kristin // 2009
This study evaluated the effects of design fixation in a group of engineering design faculty, and also provides evidence for approaches to overcome design fixation. Three conditions were compared, a ...

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