Disselkamp, Jan-Philipp; Kurpick, Dominik; Schutte, Ben; Hovemann, Aschot; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2024
Global competition is forcing companies to cut costs. The design process is time-consuming, as documents often need to be analysed. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) promises to reduce this ...
Marquez Cañizares, Juan Carlos // 2024
The product design process involves a set of stages, however, there may be many methods that can be used to resolve the different stages of the process, which will be conditioned by the nature of the ...
Alan, Ali Cankat; Pedgley, Owain // 2024
The democratisation of generative AIs has led to the emergence of novel paradigms in design. Varying capabilities of GenAIs, in terms of addressing numerous single and multiple modalities, have ...
Tully, Robert // 2024
This paper sets out to interrogate the legitimate concerns and issues around the rights and ownership of AI-assisted and AI-generated work in the future. The intention is to map out the current ...
Green, Clare // 2023
Names used to describe the people our design projects are intended for are both stabilised and questionable. Human-Centred and User-Centred approaches are still at the core of design activity, but ...
Khanolkar, Pranav Milind;Vrolijk, Ademir;Olechowski, Alison // 2023
Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly seen as appealing tools to perform design tasks traditionally accomplished by human designers. In today’s digital economy, industries aim ...
Chiarello, Filippo (1,5);Spada, Irene (3,5);Barandoni, Simone (4,5);Giordano, Vito (1,5);Fantoni, Gualtiero (2,5) // 2023
hese reasons we propose a tool that aims to map the design skills of students to optimise team composition. The tool is based on a questionnaire grounded in the design theory and aims at measuring ...
Mohammad Khastehdel // 2023
In this paper, an algebraic partitioning method is proposed to make a trade-off between sequential and concurrent iterations among coupled activities. First, a proposed binary variable matrix named ...
Macfie, Rebecca Louise;Hay, Laura Anne;Rodgers, Paul // 2023
Mental imagery is the experience of perceiving an object within one’s own mind and is a subjective experience, leading to difficulties in the research and understanding of the phenomenon. This paper ...
Papantonopoulos, Sotiris // 2023
The paper proposes a methodology for developing an active learning module adapted from the Kansei Engineering methodology that intends to engage and familiarize middle school students with basics of ...
Steck, Patrick; Scherb, David; Mayer, Johannes; Jäger, Michael; Miehling, Jörg; Völkl, Harald; Wartzack, Sandro // 2023
With increasing life expectancy, the risk of diseases of the central nervous system, such as cancer, strokes, etc., also increases. Strokes often result in injury to the sciatic nerve, which is ...
Moons, Stine; Noëth, Esther; Du Bois, Els; Jacoby, Alexis // 2023
System maps are established tools in design practice and education as well as non-design research, both as a process and an outcome of systemic analysis and synthesis. Applying causal loop diagrams ...
Sonntag, Sebastian;
Luttmer, Janosch;
Pluhnau, Robin;
Nagarajah, Arun // 2023
The product development process faces several challenges, such as an increasing and differentiated number of customer requirements, increasing product complexity, and shortened time-to-market. To ...
Nickel, Jordan (1);
Rennick, Chris (1);
Litster, Gregory (2);
Hulls, Carol C.W. (1);
Hurst, Ada (1) // 2023
Work-integrated learning (WIL) – a pedagogy that integrates academic studies with workplace experiences – presents an excellent opportunity for students to “deliberately practice” their design ...
Rieken, Elizabeth (1);
Bond, Kathleen (2);
Best, Rachel Moore (2);
Burleson, Grace (1);
Brubaker, Eric Reynolds (1) // 2023
Stakeholder perspective taking is a critical skill in early-stage problem exploration and framing. We examined stakeholder perspective taking within an early-stage design team of engineers at NASA to ...
Obieke, Chijioke C. (1);
Milisavljevic-Syed, Jelena (2);
Han, Ji (3) // 2023
The early-stage engineering design activities include conceptualising, identifying, and solving an engineering design problem. These activities are essential and standard roles of a design engineer. ...
Chong, Leah (1);
Yang, Maria (2) // 2023
With the increasing implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the design process, it is crucial to understand how users will accept AI-designed products. This work studies how the public ...
Barnhart, Betsy Rebecca; Clifford, Ryan David // 2023
The Amperstand Studio is an undergraduate multidisciplinary social design studio focused on working with outside partners and stakeholders to solve large scale and complex social problems. This case ...
Wever, Renee // 2023
In a course on sustainable design strategies, students explore different notions of what it means to be sustainable and what that, in turn, implies for how one should design. As I believe that many ...
Rautray, Priyabrata (1);
Roy, Avik (2);
Eisenbart, Boris (3) // 2023
The practice-led research focuses on how agro-waste can be used to build a structure, gather relevant knowledge, and identify its various challenges. Based on the compressive strength of Bio-Bricks, ...
Kiernan, Louise Brigid; Mcmahon, Muireann // 2023
As designing with vulnerable users becomes more prevalent, we need to establish societal and policy guidelines to ensure that such practices adhere to ethical principles to protect both participant ...
Zorn, Stefan; Malz, Sinah // 2023
Achieving a sustainable and climate-neutral world is a social and complex technological task. Engineering designers therefore play a vital role as their technological developments may require the use ...
Dupont, Elise; Cluzel, François; Yannou, Bernard // 2023
The defense industry tends to anticipate environmental issues through eco-design integration in the overall design process. This leads to focus on the impact of technological and design choices of ...
Jones, Darren Anthony;
Eckert, Claudia Margot // 2023
The research of this paper provides a useful insight into the many barriers leading to building services overdesign, within the context of NHS hospitals. The issue of overdesign in building services ...