Babapour, Maral; Hjort af Orn, Viktor // 2014
The creation of product form, involves embodying a potential function and intended use while defining geometrical, ordering features. This paper aims to elaborate roles of different media and ...
B // 2014
An approach for the planning phase of a medical device design process is presented. Challenges are discussed and a strategy to identify all required specifications is proposed. Hereby, the ...
Freitas Salgueiredo, C.; Hatchuel, A. // 2014
Biologically inspired design uses biological systems as a source of inspiration to improve technical ones. Based on three case examples of biologically inspired design modeled using the C-K design ...
Sporbeck, Jan Moritz; Gößling, Rainer; Bender, Beate // 2014
As the human body does not allow for direct measurement, a combined approach of indirect measurement linked with a supporting simulation model has to be taken. This paper presents a ...
Mulder-Nijkamp, Maaike; Corremans, Jan // 2014
Defining a products' shape is one of the key challenges for design students in the overall product development process. The formal design of a product determines to a great extend the expressive ...
Lund, Morten; Hansen, Poul Kyvsgaard // 2014
The perception of product development and the practical execution of product development in professional organizations have undergone dramatic changes in recent years. Many of these chances relate to ...
Li, X.; Ahmed-Kristensen, S. // 2014
The manufacturing industry is interested in emerging markets, together with gaps in literature point to the need of new knowledge about product development in China and other emerging lands. The ...
Vibeke, Sj // 2014
In design, video is typically used as a tool for presentation, instruction, or observation. The use of video for creation and discovery as part of the design process is new terrain. This article ...
Pauwels, Pieter; Morkel, Jolanda; Bod, Rens // 2014
Conversational interaction is central to architectural design practice. New information and communication technologies (ICT) change the designer’s traditional way of communicating and interacting. ...
Dewit, Ivo; De Roeck, Dries; Baelus, Chris // 2014
Product service systems (PSS) provide an opportunity to create innovative interactions between consumers, the products and services they use and the providers offering these products. In contrast to ...
Underwood, Gary // 2014
has long been established as a crucial part of the Product Design process. In recent years Rapid Prototyping (RP) has played an increasingly important role in this area, within industry and ...
Breitsprecher ,T.; Codescu, M.; Jucovschi ,C.; Kohlhase ,M.; Schr // 2014
The engineering design process follows a series of standardized stages of development, which have many aspects in common with software engineering. For example, the principle solution can be regarded ...
Pavel, Nenad; Berg, Arild // 2014
This paper discusses the idea of how collaborative learning might help designers with the rapid learning required in the increasingly complex environments they work in. It has been proposed that ...
Albers, Albert; Reiss, Nicolas; Bursac, Nikola; Urbanec, Jan; Ludcke, Robert // 2014
Although numerous methods exist for the product development process they are not regularly used in practice. One reason is that there is often not enough know-how available regarding the integration ...
Pillan, Margherita; Spadafora, Marco; Vitali, Annamaria Andrea // 2014
The paper presents the use of video-scenarios to support co-design of smart systems for public spaces. Video-scenarios are commonly employed in the design of innovative services and systems to ...
Kasperek, D.; Maisenbacher, S.; Maurer, M. // 2014
The dynamic behavior of complex systems is a well-known challenge within engineering. The paper presents a Multiple-Domain Matrix base model for the structure-based compilation of System Dynamics ...
Malins (1), Julian; Liapis (2), Aggelos; Kantorovitch (3), Julia; Markopoulous (4), Panos; Laing (1), Richard; Didaskalou (5), Alexandros; Coninx (6), Karin; Maciver (1), Fiona // 2014
Existing technologies designed to support professional product designers focus mainly on the modelling stages of the design process, while the early conceptual stages remain relatively unexplored. ...
Berg, Arild; Stoltenberg, Einar; Reitan, Janne // 2014
Creatively treated materials from nature transform, through technological processes and design practice, into cultural objects containing function and meaning. Views on nature, culture, and ...
Peruzzini, M.; Marilungo, E.; Germani ,M. // 2014
The interest of manufacturing enterprises in Product-Service systems (PSS) is growing to achieve new strategic advantages and greater earnings. However, companies still adopt product-centred design ...
Rizzuti, S.; De Napoli, L. // 2014
Mapping among several domains allows different aspects of the design process to be put in relation. Considering that the DSM data structure is able to capture much information of a single part of the ...
Nielsen, B.F. // 2014
Involving end-users in the design process is rare, and end-user access in humanitarian relief settings is often hindered partly due to ethical considerations. Contextual challenges unpredictably ...
Ali, Abu; Liem, Andre // 2014
The practice and teaching of form-giving typically takes the starting point in enhancing the intuitive and explorative approach of form giving rather than employing available structured methods for ...
Farrugia, Lawrence; Borg, Jonathan C. // 2014
Product development is a process in which important decisions pertaining to the artefact and its interaction with other life-phase systems are made. The consequences of these interactions influence ...
Beckmann, G.; Gebhardt, N.; Krause ,D. // 2014
Many methods for developing modular product families exist in academia, but are rarely transferred into companies. This paper presents requirements on such methods from practice along with success ...