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DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEARABLE ACTIVITY TRACKERS
Kuru, Armagan; Erbug, Çigdem // 2015
Many people use wearable activity trackers to gather personal behavioral data, make better decisions, and make changes to their behavior. While the proliferation of new products on the market makes ...
DESIGN FOR RECOVERY - APPLYING MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS TO DEFINE GROUPINGS OF FRENCH WEEE PRE-TREATMENT OPERATORS
Alonso Movilla, Natalia; Zwolinski, Peggy // 2015
Electronic appliances can follow different pre-treatment processes once they reach their end-of-use phase. To ensure their best recovery, their design has to meet the needs of the operators that are ...
DESIGN FOR RETROFITTING
Coenen, Jenny; Ruiz, Valentina; Fernandez Hernando, Jose Manuel; Frouws, Koos // 2015
This paper explorers the possibilities to design a ship for a future 'sea change' like a major retrofit of the engine room. In order to assess the potential future beneficial impact of such design ...
DESIGN FOR SCALABILITY AND STRENGTH OPTIMISATION FOR COMPONENTS CREATED THROUGH FDM PROCESS
Qureshi, A.J.; Mahmood, Shahrain; Wong, W.L.E.; Talamona, Didier // 2015
Design scalability is a technique used in routine design and manufacturing to adapt existing design knowledge to varying requirements. Guidelines exist for design scalability for subtractive ...
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY – TRADE-OFF DILEMMAS FROM THE CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE
Shiu, Eric // 2015
Product designers always look at the functionality and aesthetics aspects when deciding on the features and appearance of a new product. More recently, as the environmental issue becoMES increasingly ...
DESIGN INNOVATION FOR SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS CHANGE
Thurgood, Clementine; Dorst, Kees; Bucolo, Sam; van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; Vermaas, Pieter // 2015
We present two approaches for addressing complex societal and business problems: frame creation and design led innovation. Both methods combine a broad systems approach to problem solving together ...
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 ...
DESIGN LEARNING MIND-SETS
Hamat, Basyarah; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Eris, Ozgur // 2015
It is postulated that students have prevailing mind-sets which influence the performance of their design learning during their university education. These mind-sets - when identified - can be ...
DESIGN METHOD AND TAXONOMY OF OPTIMIZED REGULAR CELLULAR STRUCTURES FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
Savio, Gianpaolo; Gaggi, Flavio; Meneghello, Roberto; Concheri, Gianmaria // 2015
Additive manufacturing technologies enable the fabrication of innovative parts not achievable by other technologies, such as cellular structures, characterized by lightness and good mechanical ...
DESIGN METHODOLOGY APPLIED FOR PRODUCT INNOVATION IN A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT – A CASE STUDY
Almefelt, Lars; Claesson, Anders // 2015
This paper takes its departure in the results of a research project aiming to develop resource-economic and lightweight car concepts and subsystems, as well as to stimulate cross-company business ...
DESIGN OF MEDICAL DEVICES FOR PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION
Velasquez, Alejandro; Almonacid, Ana Maria; Jaramillo, Lisa Maria; Aramburo, Mauricio; Velasquez, David; Iza, Camilo; Zapata, Luis Miguel // 2015
This paper presents a stage-gate design methodology implemented during the design of two mechatronic medical devices for the prevention of ulcers in skin. Each product required the integration of ...
DESIGN QUESTIONS FOR LIFE: CONNECTING ENGINEERING DESIGN, APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY, AND OTHER QUESTION-BASED MODELS
Lilja, Johan; Hansen, David; Richardsson, Daniel // 2015
The “Design for Life” philosophy is an invitation to create new products, services, processes, and experiences that enhance human life. Research further suggests that a good life is qualitatively ...
DESIGN REPOSITORY & ANALOGY COMPUTATION VIA UNIT-LANGUAGE ANALYSIS (DRACULA) MATCHING ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT
Briana, Lucero; Julie, Linsey; Turner, Cameron // 2015
Analogical reasoning is not the only approach for achieving innovation, but it is a highly effective and noted method. To avoid relying on chance identification of analogies through unique individual ...
DESIGN ROADMAPPING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Kim, Euiyoung; Yao, Shun; Agogino, Alice Merner // 2015
While product and technology roadmaps have been well-formalized in terms of their structures, methodologies, and frameworks, design roadmaps have not been explicitly explored nor studied from either ...
DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Devadula, Suman; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2015
A Circular Economy (CE) values material, technical or biological, as nutrient. CE thinking seeks to accelerate the conversion of technical nutrient cycles along the lines of biological nutrient ...
DESIGN TALKING: AN ONTOLOGY OF DESIGN METHODS TO SUPPORT A COMMON LANGUAGE OF DESIGN
Roschuni, Celeste; Kramer, Julia; Zhang, Qian; Zakskorn, Lauren; Agogino, Alice // 2015
While many design firms have created and use their own collections of design methods, there is no standard language of design that spans across disciplines. With over 300 distinct design thinking ...
DESIGN TOWARDS BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING DESIGN AND ELDERLY PEOPLE
Carli Lorenzini, Giana; Olsson, Annika // 2015
The aging of the population is a worldwide trend, especially in Western countries. The increased number of people living past 65 years is also a trend for polypharmacy (the multiple use of ...
DESIGN-FOR-MANUFACTURE OF SHEET-BULK METAL FORMED PARTS
Breitsprecher, Thilo; Sauer, Christopher; Sperber, Christian; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Sheet-bulk metal forming (SBMF) is an emerging and sustainable manufacturing technology that offers potential both for shortening process chains and for designing new geometry features that enable ...
DESIGNED FOR, WITH, AND BY KIDS. INTEGRATING CHILDREN’S APPROACH INTO DESIGN TEACHING AND RESEARCH VISUALISATION
Luccarelli, Martin; Di Iorio, Mariagiovanna // 2015
This work addresses the creativity and intuitive approach of children to improve design teaching and research visualisation. Three experiments involving children as user, tester, and informant are ...
DESIGNING CHILD-SIZED HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE: BEYOND PREFERENCES FOR COLOURS AND THEMES
Verschoren, Laure; Annemans, Margo; Van Steenwinkel, Iris; Heylighen, Ann // 2015
Hospitals tend to be associated with being ill and suffering from pain. Especially for children a hospital stay can be a poignant experience. On top of not feeling well, they have to exchange their ...
DESIGNING FOR CHILDREN’S PLAY GROUND, A SOCIAL SKILLS IMPROVEMENT APPROACH
Sepahpour, Ghazaleh; Shahabi Haghighi, Hamid Reza; Choopankareh, Vahid // 2015
Many children learn how to communicate by playing. The objective of this research is to identify a suitable method to improve children’s social interactions, by designing a toy, according to ...
DESIGNING FOR THE DEEPEST NEEDS OF BOTH PUBLIC SERVICE CONSUMERS AND PROVIDERS; INNOVATION IN MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE
van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; Watson, Rodger // 2015
Design is increasingly used as an approach to support innovation outside the traditional design domain, including the public sector. One of the design principles that is used in these so-called ...
DESIGNING OF HYBRID JOINTS AT THE EARLY EMBODIMENT DESIGN STAGE
Kellermeyer, Markus; Klein, Daniel; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Increasing costs for fuel and an increasing ecological awareness of the companies have lead to a higher importance of lightweight constructions in the automotive industry. A possibility to make ...
DESIGNING PSI: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PSI FRAMEWORK
Reich, Yoram; Subrahmanian, Eswaran // 2015
The PSI spaces are a framework for studying designing as practiced in the real world: framing and solving technical, social or organizational goals embedded in the existing socio-economic and ...
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.