Evans, Pete (1); Söderlund, Carina (2) // 2021
Today, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has seen a technological evolution accelerate at an exponential rate (Schwab, 2016). Due to the development of digital technology, this accelerating trend has ...
Andrews, Deborah; Newton, Elizabeth J.; Lishman, Ben // 2021
Designers and engineers have developed many products, systems and services that have been socially, economically and environmentally beneficial. From the early 1930s however, many designers and ...
De Vere, Ian; Mcleod, Ross; Wagenfeld, Malte // 2021
Design has the potential to significantly improve safety and well being, reduce risk and save lives either during the design phase or through targeted design interventions towards urban ...
Turnhout, Koen; Smits, Aletta // 2021
Research about design cognition acknowledges the importance of knowledge about exiting solutions. Designers tend to employ solution oriented thinking strategies; they generate idea’s starting from ...
Tran, Quang; Laursen, Linda Nhu // 2021
Recent studies show entrepreneurs tend to priorities’ either the business or the design side of their startup, as combining design and entrepreneurship may represent a dual focus and tension in the ...
Wigum, Kristin Storen (1); Gulden, Tore (2) // 2021
In this article we discuss the pain of letting go of the existing illusion of the designers’ ability to predict the future. The illusion is typically existent when it is considered a skill to survive ...
Taoka, Yuki; Mihono, Haruhiko; Saito, Shigeki // 2021
Concept generation in design projects generally has divergence phase and convergence phase. In the divergence phase, possibilities of design spaces are expanded (i.e. idea generation) while design ...
Husung, S., Weber, C., Mahboob, A., & Kleiner, S. // 2021
Jan Mehlstäubl, Simon Nicklas, Benjamin Gerschütz, Nicolai Sprogies, Benjamin Schleich, Thomas Lohner, Sandro Wartzack, Karsten Stahl, Kristin Paetzold // 2021
Data mining and machine learning are successfully applied in many business areas such as marketing or production. Due to the increasing complexity in data and information flows and the large amount ...
Lender, Benjamin Nils Johannes; Trauer, Jakob; Schweigert-Recksiek, Sebastian; Spreitzer, Karsten; Chmielewski, Nils; Zimmermann, Markus // 2020
Trends like digitalization, servitization and the ongoing globalization drive an ever more growing product complexity. To handle this challenge and to succeed on fast-paced markets, companies need to ...
Hartmann, Carla; Wolf, Alexander; Miehling, Jörg; Wartzack, Sandro; // 2020
Using digital human models (DHMs) as the virtual representation of the human body enables the integration of ergonomic assessments in the product design process. Especially the use of DHMs in the ...
Wöhr, Ferdinand; Königs, Simon; Ring, Philipp; Zimmermann, Markus // 2020
Computational models can be used to study product design processes. We propose an agent-based simulation model that incorporates, first, the role of design parties involved, second, their design ...
Menshenin, Yaroslav; Brovar, Yana; Crawley, Edward; Fortin, Clement // 2020
DSMs and related matrices are commonly used to represent system interfaces, which is closely associated with a need to decompose systems into their elements. However, besides the importance of ...
Trauer, Jakob; Schweigert-Recksiek, Sebastian; Onuma Okamoto, Luis; Spreitzer, Karsten; Mörtl, Markus; Zimmermann, Markus // 2020
Due to the evermore growing digitization in engineering, the term data-driven engineering has evolved over the last years. Yet, there is no unified definition of the term. The presented research is ...
Ishio, Pedro; Gaspar, Ricardo; Gon // 2020
The objective of this paper is to iterate proposed functional guidelines for the assertive practice of design thinking in organizational environments, and therefore to promote innovation. Three ...
Almrott, Ceri (1); O'Kane, Colm (1); Tully, Robert (1); Buck, Lyndon (2) // 2020
Designers acknowledge that global organisations can have different ethoses and cultures which affect the way that they undertake the process of design and the products that they develop[1]. It is ...
Green, Clare (1,2) // 2020
Despite continuous evolutions in both design methodology and the scope of design practice, team-working remains a core feature in much design activity. As design methodology expands beyond ...
Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike (1); Virmasalo, Veera (2); Samuel, Marly M. (1); Stichel, Brit (3); Afrikaner, Helena E. (1) // 2020
This paper presents a 2-year collaboration that explored how we as design researchers may support an isolated and marginalised indigenous San community to innovate technology products for affluent ...
Schmitt, P. and Gericke, K. // 2020
Sun, Qianang; Kim, Eunyoung // 2020
Fixation, as a mental activity, is usually discussed in the design process and creative expression. Several studies have conducted experiments aiming to find how to reduce the fixation in design ...
Herrmann, T., Roth, D. and Binz, H. // 2020
Eisenmann, M. and Matthiesen, S. // 2020
Nolte, H. and McComb, C. // 2020
Sigsgaard, Kristoffer Vandrup; Agergaard, Julie Krogh; Mortensen, Niels Henrik; Hansen, Kasper Barslund; Soleymani, Iman; Khalid, Waqas // 2020
Maintenance costs are becoming increasingly important to running a profitable business. The foundation of lower costs is an effective maintenance process. Often the maintenance process is similar to ...