Manoharan, Thivakar; Loibl, Andr // 2019
In order to meet the quality standards required in today's product development process, the designer must be able to draw on the knowledge contained in standards at all times. However, in today's ...
Chiarello, Filippo (1); Cirri, Ilenia (1); Melluso, Nicola (1); Fantoni, Gualtiero (1); Bonaccorsi, Andrea (1); Pavanello, Tommaso (2) // 2019
The importance of affordance in Engineering design is well established. Artifacts that are able to activate spontaneous and immediate users? reactions are considered the outcome of good design ...
Wang, Wei Min; M // 2019
Knowledge is a crucial factor in state-of-the-art product development. It is often provided by stakeholders from divers disciplinary and individual backgrounds and has to be integrated to create ...
Tessier, Virginie; Mithra, Zahedi // 2019
This article adopts a sociocultural perspective, based on a Designerly version of Activity Theory, to propose a coherent framework in response to the challenges of assessing collaborative ...
Stevens, Laura (1); De Vries, Marc {M.J.} (2); Bos, Mark {M.J.W.} (1); Kopnina, Helen (1) // 2019
The emerging field of biomimicry and learning to design with and for nature has expanded in recent years through a diversity of educational programs. Inspiration following natural forms may give the ...
Wallisch, Anne; Pérez-Villalobos, Cristhian; Briede-Westermeyer, Juan Carlos // 2019
Most design and engineering students aim “to create something that is having an effect on... people’s lives” [D1] for several reasons and, consequently, put much effort in learning and practicing how ...
Jain, Karan; Choi, Young Mi // 2019
This paper discusses the issues involved with creating a Tangible Augmented Reality representation of a product so that it can be effectively and validly used to support the product design process. ...
Barhoush, Yazan A M (1); Erichsen, J // 2019
The early (pre-requirement) stages of product development can provide relevant insights into the creative design process. At these stages, the communication of ideas during the prototyping process ...
Francisco Javier Serón Torrecilla // 2019
Citizen science, an open participatory approach is gaining a renewed impulse thanks to the digital revolution (Green Paper on Citizen Science, 2014), encouraging people for a scientific literacy and ...
Augustin, Laura; Schabacker, Michael // 2019
User-centric development is essential to any product development project, especially in order to keep up with today?s ever-changing product cycle.
This paper explores the potential of combining ...
Filip Valjak and Nenad Bojčetić // 2019
Additive Manufacturing (AM) brought new design freedom and possibilities that enable design and manufacturing of products with new forms and functionalities. To utilise these possibilities a new ...
Zhang, Wenwen; Ranscombe, Charlie; Radcliffe, David; Jackson, Simon // 2019
In Industrial Design, new design visualisation tools are emerging offering significant benefits to the designers. However, studies show alongside some benefits, new tools can also inhibit designers' ...
Bruno, Carmen; Canina, Marita // 2019
Creativity - the ability to produce novel and useful ideas (Amabile, 1988) – has become a democratic necessity and the most important human skill to face the uncertainties brought by the digital era ...
Millet, Antoine (1,2,3); Abi Akle, Audrey (1); Masson, Dimitri (1); Legardeur, J // 2019
Product success depends on its capacity to meet users? expectations. Human Centred Design approach helps to reach this success by focussing on users? needs in the design process. These needs are as ...
Balzan, Emanuel (1); Farrugia, Philip (1); Casha, Owen (1); Camilleri, Liberato (1); Wodehouse, Andrew (2) // 2019
Toys are children's first consumer products and while playing they acquire numerous skills, learn about their environment and socialise with other children and adults. Toys are adapted and used by ...
Boess, Stella U. // 2019
In this paper, I identify issues that arose in a recent pilot project in which designers contributed to the construction field. The project was led by an overall responsible innovation goal for ...
Tuomala, Enni-Kukka S E; Baxter, Weston L // 2019
Globalisation and the mixing of people, cultures, religions and languages fuels pressing healthcare, educational, political and other complex sociocultural issues. Many of these issues are driven by ...
Haselsteiner, Andreas F. (1); Reisenhofer, Rafael (2); Ohlendorf, Jan-Hendrik (1); Thoben, Klaus-Dieter (1) // 2019
The design of various products is driven by requirements that describe extremes. In marine structural design, joint extremes of environmental variables like wave height and wind speed are used to ...
Mandolini, Marco (1); Brunzini, Agnese (1); Brandoni Serrani, Eleonora (1); Pagnoni, Mario (2); Mazzoli, Alida (1); Germani, Michele (1) // 2019
This study defines a methodological procedure for the design and manufacturing of a prosthetic implant for the reconstruction of a midsagittal bony-deficiency of the skull due to the Apert congenital ...
Onselen, Lenny van (1,2); De Lille, Christine (1,2); Snelders, Dirk (2) // 2019
Junior designers are not trained to cope with critical situations and conflict at work. Most design schools do not educate their design students to prepare them for (potential) conflict. As a result, ...
Martens, Carmen (1,2); Herssens, Jasmien (1); Delcourt, Câcile (2) // 2019
Given that we live in a time within a growing competitive healthcare market, the customer experience and healing opportunities are on top of the priority list. However, little attention has been ...
Bouwman, Sanne (1); Voorendt, Jesper (1); Eisenbart, Boris (2); McKilligan, Seda (3) // 2019
Design Thinking has become increasingly popular across different disciplines. However, what it exactly entails is becoming more and more vague, leading to the term being used for many different ...
Brun, Juliette (1); Salembier, Chlo // 2019
Despite the increasing demand to develop cross-disciplinary research projects, designing collaborative research still prove to be difficult due to both scientific specialization and organizational ...
BLANCO, Eric; BERARD, Stephanie; BLANCO, Sylvie; CHEVRIER, Pierre; HEIDSIECK, Emmanuelle; KENWRIGHT, John; VERGES, Virginie // 2019
Performance and efficiency in R&D processes is a critical point for industry. Operational excellence in design and development is required to overcome the business challenges that companies face. It ...