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Describing the engineering modeling knowledge for complexity management in the design of complex city

Ostrosi, Egon; Pfaender, Fabien; Choulier, Denis; Fougères, Alain-Jérôme; Tzen, MonZen // 2013
Engineering design and planning of the city of the future for its citizens of all ages with its fast and dynamic evolving structure is a complex problem. The goal of this paper is to propose a new ...

Design activity and team interaction characteristics: A case study of protocol analysis on team-based product-service systems design processes

Lee, Sang Won; Lee, Jun; Jo, Nanhyeon; Kim, Yong Se // 2013
In this paper, the protocol analysis on team-based Product-Service Systems (PSS) design processes is conducted to study the characteristics of design activities and team interactions. For protocol ...

Design based entrepreneurship

Møller Nielsen, Louise; Wikström, Anders; Tollestrup, Christian // 2013
Designers are often recognized as natural entrepreneurs, due to their creative skills and competences in the idea-generation and product development processes. A number of studies shows that creative ...

Design for functional requirements enabled by a mechanism and machine element taxonomy

Lee, Szu-Hung; Jiang, Pingfei; Childs, Peter RN // 2013
A process providing an option for engineers and designers to separate the consideration of functional requirements and movement requirements to encourage diverse thinking has been developed and ...

Design for the BOP and TOP markets: strategies used by the design students

Jagtap, Santosh; Larsson, Andreas; Hiort, Viktor; Olander, Elin; Warell, Anders; Khadilkar, Pramod // 2013
BOP and TOP markets. We have discussed the implications of the findings for design practice and education. In particular, we have discussed how university-based design projects for the BOP can help ...

Design orchestration composer - A model base enabling holistic management of product, design process, and organization

Oizumi, Kazuya; Aoyama, Kazuhiro // 2013
As the industries develop, product enlarges its scale and increases its complexity. To defeat past products, more functions and mechanisms have been installed. It requires more and more people ...

Design process commonalities in trans-disciplinary design

Qureshi, A.J.; Gericke, Kilian; Blessing, Lucienne // 2013
Contemporary product development has transformed from being mono-disciplinary to increasingly trans-disciplinary. Technology convergence and specialization of the knowledge are two distinctive trends ...

Design teamwork in distributed cross-cultural teams

Man, Jinfan; Lu, Yuan; Brombacher, Aarnout // 2013
In the recent decades, design teamwork in international teams has been taken into account to meet the requirement of product development with different cultural backgrounds in the context of ...

Designers’ promises or users’ expectations?

Gabelloni, Donata; Fantoni, Gualtiero // 2013
Several frameworks describe the design process, such as the FBS model and its extensions. Some of them present a designer-centric view, while the most recent ones are more based on the user’s point ...

Designing burial monuments to increase emotional awareness in product design

Stoltenberg, Einar; Berg, Arild // 2013
The motivation for writing this paper is the growing concern in society towards the amount of products we produce containing low utility and sustainability. Through emotional awareness the student ...

Designing crime prevention - A review of methods

Watson, Rodger Neil // 2013
The Designing Out Crime research centre (DOC) has now operated for almost 5 years. In this time the centre and its staff and students have worked on real life crime problems, using and developing ...

Designing on the road; exploring the who, where and why of individual mobility devices.

van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; van der Molen, Pieta; van der Voort, Mascha // 2013
The aim of this study is to support designers in dealing with the variety of situations in which product are used, so-called dynamic and diverse use situations (DDUS). Dealing with varying use ...

Development of a design process to design for people with dementia and their extended care network - Learning from a case study

Brankaert, Rens; den Ouden, Elke // 2013
In Europe we face an aging society with a growing number of people suffering from dementia. This challenge we face as a society, because current healthcare systems are not ready for such an increase. ...

Discursive constructions of design and implications for engineering education

Premer Petersen, Rikke // 2013
Recognition of design discourses at play in professional practice is key when discussing ways to reintroduce designerly ways in engineering education. This paper outlines three design discourses ...

Distribution of mental stresses during conceptual design activities

Nguyen, Thanh An; Xu, Xu; Zeng, Yong // 2013
In this paper, we study how different mental stress levels are distributed in a conceptual design process. Firstly, we reviewed a Stroop Test experiment conducted earlier in our lab to confirm the ...

Eco-design guidelines and eco-knowledge integration in product development process

Rossi, Marta; Germani, Michele; Mandolini, Marco; Marconi, Marco; Mengoni, Maura; Morbidoni, Alessandro // 2013
The product eco-sustainability is recognized as a key factor for competitive products and recently lots of international directives (guidelines) have been issued. This paper aims to define a new ...

EcoM2 web portal: Collecting empirical data and supporting companies' ecodesign implementation and management

Pigosso, Daniela; McAloone, Tim C.; Rozenfeld, Henrique // 2013
Despite the recognition of the potential benefits of ecodesign, a promising approach to integrate environmental concerns into the product development process, its application has failed to reach ...

Elaboration and assessment of a set of criteria for the evaluation of product ideas

Messerle, Mathias; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2013
It is important for companies to identify the most promising product ideas very early in the product development process in order to use the available resources for the “right” projects. ...

Enhancing supply chain collaboration in automotive industry by value driven simulation

Panarotto, Massimo; Larsson, Tobias C.; Larsson, Andreas // 2013
This paper presents a computer-based approach for conceptual design that aims to enhance collaborative supply chain development in the automotive sector when dealing with product-service development ...

Evaluating the failures criticality in collaborative design with suppliers

Personnier, Hélène; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Calvi, Richard // 2013
Innovation helps companies to increase their competitive position. Suppliers are an important source of innovation. Thus, successful collaborations with suppliers in New Product Development (NPD) can ...

Experience design tool: encouraging designers to consider different design and emotion strategies

Maclachlan, Mary; Wood, Bruce // 2013
This paper presents an overview of the existing research in the area of design and emotion and the resulting design strategies that have emerged to support it. Design strategies concerning, pleasure, ...

Exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in design process

Allais, Romain; Tatiana, Reyes; Lionel, Roucoules // 2013
This article describes an exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in a business's value-creating process through the application of a global and systemic ecodesign approach. ...

Extending the product specification with emotional aspects: Introducing user experience stories

Michailidou, Ioanna; von Saucken, Constantin; Lindemann, Udo // 2013
Emotional aspects of products play a vital role for the purchasing decision but are often neglected in conventional product development processes. In the task clarification design phase, in ...

Fighting poverty through design: Comparing design processes for the base and the top of the world income pyramid

Jagtap, Santosh; Larsson, Andreas; Hiort, Viktor; Olander, Elin; Warell, Anders; Khadilkar, Pramod // 2013
The base (BOP) and the top (TOP) of the world income pyramid represent the poor people and the people from developed countries, respectively. About two-fifths of the world population can be ...

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