Query returned 459 results.
Capturing Creativity in Collaborative Design Processes
Pedersen, J. U.; Onarheim, B. // 2015
This paper is concerned with the question of how we can capture creativity in collaborative design processes consisting of two or more individuals collaborating in the process of producing innovative ...
CONSTRUCTING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL TO UNDERSTAND TEAM DESIGN THROUGH LANGUAGE
Xu, Jiang; Guo, Feng; Gan, Xiang; Wang, Xiuyue // 2015
As the support for creative design of complex products, multi-disciplinary team design has always been the focus of researches on design. By taking language as the data resource in design, a ...
Creative Chunking: Modularity Increases Prototyping Quantity, Creative Self-Efficacy and Cognitive Flow
Sadler, J.; Shluzas, L.; Blikstein, P.; Katila, R. // 2015
Prototyping intermediate solutions to a creative challenge is a core design skill. However for technical novices, the process of including electronic components in prototypes can hamper the creative ...
DESCRIPTION OF A COMPETENCE ORIENTED APPROACH FOR DESIGNING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS
Walter, Johanna; Paetzold, Kristin; Nitsch, Verena // 2015
Technology can be tremendously helpful in assisting the elderly to lead an independent lifestyle. However, using a deficit-oriented approach to characterizing these user groups can stigmatize them ...
DESIGN ACUMEN
Petersen, Søren Ingomar // 2015
Over the past decade, design has earned the respect of most established firms and even cash-strapped entrepreneurial startups and their investors have begun to focus on design. They are becoming more ...
DESIGN FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE: AN ELABORATION-BASED APPROACH TO PERSUASION IN PRODUCT DESIGN
Montazeri, Soodeh; Panos, Papalambros; Rich, Gonzales // 2015
This paper investigates the premise that products can be designed in a principled persuasive way to induce behavior change; specifically it explores how designers can adopt behavior change theories ...
DESIGN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AS AN INTEGRATION OF FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE MODELLING AND DESIGN STRUCTURE MATRIX
Zhu, Guo-Niu; Hu, Jie; Qi, Jin; Gu, Chao-Chen; Peng, Ying-Hong // 2015
Design knowledge representation has been regarded as a key aspect in design processes, especially at the early stage of conceptual design as it establishes the basis for the subsequent design ...
DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN PEDAGOGY
Tovey, Michael // 2015
ticular design practice, illustrating them through case studies.. This can be approached by strengthening studio culture to provide safe spaces for creative and problem-centred learning and ‘gateway’ ...
DIFFERENCES IN ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS BY EXPERT AND NOVICE ENGINEERING DESIGNERS
Ruckpaul, Anne; Nelius, Thomas; Matthiesen, Sven // 2015
A major part of daily work for engineering designers is the analysis of existing products for finding malfunctions and possibilities to improve them. The visual perception and cognition are very ...
DO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM PRE-ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION?
Kannengiesser, Udo; Gero, John; Wells, John; Lammi, Matthew // 2015
This paper tests the hypothesis that the design cognition of high school students who have taken pre-engineering courses will be different to those who have not. The test is based on analysing and ...
HETEROGENEOUS SIMULATED ANNEALING TEAMS: AN OPTIMIZING SEARCH ALGORITHM INSPIRED BY ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS
McComb, Christopher; Cagan, Jonathan; Kotovsky, Kenneth // 2015
Although insights uncovered by design cognition are often utilized to develop the methods used by human designers, using such insights to inform computational methodologies also has the potential to ...
HOW WE UNDERSTAND ENGINEERING DRAWINGS: AN EYE TRACKING STUDY INVESTIGATING SKIMMING AND SCRUTINIZING SEQUENCES
Lohmeyer, Quentin; Meboldt, Mirko // 2015
Engineering drawings representing machine systems are usually sectional drawings showing the inner mechanical mechanisms. A precondition for understanding such a drawing is to be familiar with the ...
INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: PERCEPTIONS OF EXPERTS
Telenko, Cassandra; Wood, Kristin // 2015
Innovation and creativity research assists and enables designers to break the mold of everyday, expected designs and discover the delightful, but unexpected, meaning-rich, and radical through novel ...
Meta–Contents of Design Creativity: Extraction of the Key Concepts that Form the Sense of Design
Nagai, Y.; Junaidy, D.W. // 2015
This study aims to detect the meta-contents of design creativity in modern society, which has shaped the development of such designed products. To identify the meta-contents of design creativity, we ...
MODULATION OF AMBIGUITY, A COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF REPRESENTATIONS DURING IDEA GENERATION
Kasatkina, Olga; de Vries, Erica; Masclet, Cédric; Boujut, Jean-François // 2015
The role of the representations that are developed in creativity sessions is often overlooked as a potential factor, which can influence the progression and the results of those sessions. Through the ...
MOVING TARGETS: HOW CONSUMERS CHANGE VALUE SYSTEMS THROUGH INTERACTION WITH DESIGNED PRODUCTS AND OTHER CONSUMERS
Thomas, Russell C.; Gero, John S. // 2015
Designers need to understand the role of social influence between consumers as an endogenous process of shaping value systems, and within the larger framework of indirect mutual influence on value ...
NOVICE ENGINEERS’ PREDISPOSITION TO COMPASSIONATE DESIGN
Seshadri, Priya; Reid, Tahira // 2015
The objective of this research paper is to study the ways in which engineering students naturally apply elements of compassionate design thinking to design tasks. We hypothesize that engineers will ...
ONLINE WAYS OF SHAREDNESS: A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF DESIGN COLLABORATION IN OPENIDEO
Bianchi, Joost; Knopper, Yuri; Eris, Ozgur; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Roussos, Lampros // 2015
This research aims to develop a language-based cognitive framework in order to evaluate the performance of virtual design communities. We leveraged two existing theories on the use of language as ...
ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY CONSTRUAL THROUGH DESIGN PROCESS
Pavel, Nenad; Stoltenberg, Einar // 2015
Due to rapid changes in technologies and the market, institutions are not only changing their activities, but also their physical environment. Leadership tends to lead organizations by means of its ...
Outline of a Practice-Oriented Perspective on Collaborative Creative Design
Richter, C.; Allert, H. // 2015
Even though there has been a considerable interest in creativity and design as collaborative efforts more recently, there is yet a need for models that provide an integrative perspective on ...
PHYSICAL INTERACTION MAPPINGS: UTILIZING COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY IN ORDER TO ENHANCE PHYSICAL PRODUCT INTERACTION
Young, Bryan Gough; Wodehouse, Andrew; Sheridan, Marion // 2015
Learning to physically operate traditional products can be viewed as a learning process akin to any other. As such, many of today's products, such as cars, boats, and planes, which have traditional ...
PHYSIOLOGICALLY BASED SEGMENTATION OF DESIGN PROTOCOL
Nguyen, Philon; Nguyen, Thanh An; Zeng, Yong // 2015
The measure of a design problem s hardness is a window into human intelligence. We propose a new measure of problem hardness based on the transient microstate percentage of EEG signals. Based on the ...
REMEMBER TO REMEMBER: A FEASIBILITY STUDY ADAPTING WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY TO THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AGED 65 AND OLDER WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI) AND ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA
Maier, Anja M; Özkil, Ali Gürcan; Bang, Maria M; Forchhammer, Birgitte H // 2015
Designing for a healthy life includes addressing the needs of an ageing population. The number of people aged 65 and older with mild cognitive impairment and dementia is rising. Whilst there is ...
SKETCHING AS A THINKING PROCESS
Leblanc, Tatjana // 2015
Sketching is a form of communication and as such particularly effective for illustrating ideas or
sharing thoughts. For designers, sketching is an indispensable tool that helps them ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.