Nijs, G.; Vermeersch, P. W.; Devlieger, P.; Heylighen, A. // 2010
This paper considers how through dialogue the relationship between architectural design and disability can yield opportunities instead of constraints. Two cases drawn from ongoing ethnographic design ...
Beatty, Erin L; Ball, Linden J // 2010
We report a study examining the nature of collaboration in poetry composition in order to inform the optimisation of teamwork processes in technological design. Our interview-based data, derived from ...
Roth, D.; Binz, H.; Watty, R. // 2010
The resource knowledge becomes more and more important in terms of a factor of production. The intention of this paper is to develop a preferable, general structure of knowledge within the product ...
Chamberlain, P. // 2010
User-centred research methodologies are often adopted to inform design practice. This paper proposes a case for the key role of design practice, and the value of artefacts, as a fundamental ...
Kazamia, K. I.; Kafaridou, M. O. // 2010
This paper explores the term “Interior Design” and in particular the relationship of the interior design profession with its direct and indirect impacts on the environment. Furthermore it expands the ...
Wynn, D. C.; Maier, A. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2010
In any process modelling exercise, questions arise regarding how to maximise the utility of that intervention. This paper describes the utility of modelling as the quality of process regulation it ...
De Grande, Guido;Baelus ,Chris // 2010
Finding financial funding for research in product development is not an easy task. Government agencies all over Europe and the US rather prefer to fund research in applied sciences ...
Beier, F.; Maier, T. // 2010
In engineering research and development, technical progress indicates important changes. For example, product engineering without help of modern technologies got unthinkable within the last decade. ...
Hacker, W.; Melzer, M.; Debitz, U.; Stelzer, R. // 2010
The integration of teaching non-technical (“soft”) skills in engineers’ initial and further education is important, but widely disregarded (e.g. Crawley, Malmqvist, Östlund & Brodeur, 2007). ...
Stöber, C.; Westphal, C.; Krehmer, H.; Wartzack, S. // 2010
The co-operating of the different mechatronic domains can detect synergies for the specification of the product properties. However by the manifold requirements the product development process gets ...
Galea, A.; Borg, J.; Grech, A.; Farrugia, P. // 2010
Traditional CAD tools tend to provide support for the solution phase of the design process, with the design specifications being overlooked. This is a major limitation given the vital importance of ...
Bjar, Mia; Rabben, Silje; Wullum, Ole Petter; Boks, Casper // 2010
Designing for children has received little attention in product design research. Multidisciplinary aspects play only a minor role in the search for high-value products that develop children in a ...
Lorin, Samuel; Forslund, Karin; Söderberg, Rikard // 2010
For complex assemblies, variation, stemming from the manufacturing process, can propagate through the product and have a negative influence on its functionality. Today, various simulation tools are ...
Pasman, Gert; Boess, Stella // 2010
This paper describes and reflects on experiences of educating design students in doing research as part of their design process. It specifically looks at the value of making things as a means to ...
Backstrom, Tomas: Olsson, Bengt Olof Koping // 2010
Radical change, or Kaikaku, is typically organized as a top-down change project based on a design process strategy. Creative processes are emergent and tend to refuse goal-steering. Still, group ...
McAlpine, H.; Cash, P.; Howard, T.; Arikoglu, E. S.; Loftus, C.; O'Hare, J. // 2010
This paper discusses the information management (IM) requirements of a wide range of stakeholders from a typical engineering organisation. Based on multiple empirical studies undertaken at the ...
Elgh, Fredrik // 2010
Design automation is an important means for efficient product configuration within an engineer-to-order business strategy. Commonly, the development of a design automation system is an iterative ...
Childs, Peter; McGlashan, Niall; Gosling, Graham; Aurisicchio, Marco // 2010
The modern engineer needs to have diverse skills ranging from abilities in re-design, co-design, customisation, management of resources and intellectual property, combined with technical ...
Evans, Dorothy; Wood, Bruce // 2010
ective to create graduates who could better understand how to exploit their creativity, manage innovation, recognise and assess the credibility of their ideas and know how to implement them. This ...
Wahl, Andreas; Johannesson, Hans // 2010
Many companies use product platforms to achieve economy of scale benefits while they simultaneously offer customized product variants. The strategy to realise this is often to share ready designed ...
Furtmeier, F.; Graebsch, M.; Elezi, F.; Tommelein, I.D.; Lindemann, U. // 2010
Lean thinking strives for the elimination of waste at any point in a product’s progress from development to production to delivery. Lean construction applies the principles of lean thinking, such as ...
De Lessio, M. P.; Wynn, D. C.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2010
This paper examines the use of modelling to analyse aspects of the planning system to minimise the potential for planning error. Using a dependency structure matrix, the relationships between ...
Eriksson, P. E.; Eriksson, Y.; Swenberg, T.; Sverrisson, A. // 2010
Industrial design processes have several common denominators regardless of the actual design. This is to say that the production of moving images is a kind of design process. Even though every single ...
Mima, Yoshiaki // 2010
There are some software tools for supporting idea generation, with which user can generate various ideas with stochastic process. One of the most popular examples is the method so called ...