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SUPPORTING ENVIRONMENTALLY-BENIGN DESIGN - ELUCIDATING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT PROPAGATION IN CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PHASE BY SAPPHIRE MODEL OF CAUSALITY
Acharya, Shakuntala; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2015
Conceptual Design Phase is the most critical for design decisions and their impact on the Environment. It is also a phase of many ‘unknowns’ making it flexible and allowing exploration of many ...
SUPPORTING IDEA GENERATION THROUGH FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION: AN ALTERNATIVE FRAMING FOR DESIGN HEURISTICS
Gray, Colin M.; Yilmaz, Seda; Daly, Shanna; Seifert, Colleen M.; Gonzalez, Richard // 2015
This study explored how guided ideation can support concept initiation and development. We conducted a set of in-class activities in a junior-level industrial design studio at a large Midwestern US ...
SUPPORTING NEED SEEKER INNOVATION: THE RADICAL INNOVATION DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Yannou, Bernard // 2015
Driven by a utilitarian perspective, the question of useful innovation and creating essential values is set. Such innovation should lead to cover or alleviate significant pains which are not ...
SUPPORTING THE CONFIGURATION OF NEW PRODUCT VARIANTS BY REUSING THE IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE OF PAST SOLUTIONS
Malatesta, Marco; Cicconi, Paolo; Raffaeli, Roberto; Germani, Michele // 2015
The market globalization pushes for ever new products in order to reach new niches. In the household appliances field, the marketing specialists daily configure new combinations of numerous ...
SURPRISE AS A SITUATED PHENOMENON
Becattini, Niccolo; Borgianni, Yuri; Cascini, Gaetano; Rotini, Federico // 2015
Among the studies dedicated to design creativity, a significant attention is given to the investigation of its dimensions, such as novelty and usefulness. The underlying assumption is that an ...
SUSTAINABILITY OF MODULAR PRODUCT FAMILIES
Bahns, Tammo; Beckmann, Gregor; Gebhardt, Nicolas; Krause, Dieter // 2015
A global customer base demanding highly individual products often forces companies to offer a wide range of products. Commonality within modular product families allows great product variety through ...
SYNTHESIS OF CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS FOR SENSORS USING SAPPHIRE-LITE
Sarkar, Biplab; Chakrabarti, Amaresh; Ananthasuresh, G.K // 2015
The demand for variety of products and the shorter time to market is encouraging designers to adopt computer aided concept generation techniques. One such technique is being explored here. The ...
SYSTEM FOR DERIVING DIVERSE SOLUTIONS VIA A MODIFICATION METHOD FOR EMERGENT DESIGN
Sato, Koichiro; Matsuoka, Yoshiyuki // 2015
This paper describes efficiency of introducing a modification method that we proposed into a system for deriving diverse solutions. Moreover, a guideline of system parameter is proposed so as to ...
SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUONS
Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Hesamedin; Collado-Ruiz, Daniel // 2015
Life Cycle Assessment is one of the most popular environmental assessment tools. However, due to its comparative nature, assessing a newly developed product relies on having benchmark information. ...
SYSTEMATIC ONLINE LEAD USER IDENTIFICATION - CASE STUDY FOR ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS
Pajo, Sanjin; Vandevenne, Dennis; Duflou, Joost R. // 2015
Identification of emerging needs and partial solutions is crucial for industries to stay competitive in a fast evolving marketplace. A small subgroup of customers, called lead users have been shown ...
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE CHANGE OF GEOMETRY IN SYSTEM SIMULATION PROCESSES
Mauser, Kristian; Breitsprecher, Thilo; Hasse, Alexander; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
In product development process of dynamic systems more than one technical field (i.e. mechanical, electrical or combustion technologies) affects the product. It is of particular importance to ensure ...
TASK-BASED LCA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF MULTIPLE HETEROGENOUS SYSTEMS
Quan, Ning; Kim, Harrison; Knight, Erica; Nelson, Jeffrey; Finamore, Peter // 2015
Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) is the framework for assessing the environmental impact of a product over its entire lifecycle. There have been numerous LCIA studies in the past conducted on ...
TASKS AND CHALLENGES IN PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT WITH NOVEL TECHNOLOGY – AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Ravn, Poul Martin; Guolaugsson, Tómas Vignir; Mortensen, Niels Henrik // 2015
This paper presents a thematic analysis of 138 monthly reports from a joint industrial and academic project where multiple prototypes were developed based on the same technology. The analysis was ...
TEACHING NURSES CAD: IDENTIFYING DESIGN SOFTWARE LEARNING DIFFERENCES IN A NON-TRADITIONAL USER DEMOGRAPHIC
Stephenson, Katherine Jo; Pickham, David; Aquino Shluzas, Lauren // 2015
This pilot study examines CAD software learning differences between a group of non-technical innovators (clinical nurses) and traditional CAD users (design engineers). This research was motivated by ...
TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED DESIGN RESEARCH
Thoring, Katja; Mueller, Roland M.; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2015
This survey paper explores the opportunities and challenges of new technologies and social media for design research and design ethnography in particular, and summarizes the results in a framework. ...
THE "IDEAL" USER INNOVATION TOOLKIT - BENCHMARKING AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
Roth, Michael; Harmeling, Jonas; Michailidou, Ioanna; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
User innovation toolkits offer many benefits, for example the efficient access to customer needs, the realisation of individual products and reduced development risks. While these toolkits are spread ...
THE APPLICATION OF CROWDSOURCING FOR 3D INTERIOR LAYOUT DESIGN
Wu, Hao; Corney, Jonathan; Grant, Michael // 2015
wdsourcing has been investigated by researchers in various domains (i.e., open innovation, linguistic study, commercial collaboration, etc.). However, less is known about the use of the crowdsourcing ...
THE BUSINESS MODEL, A TOOL FOR TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
Bisiaux, Justine; Gidel, Thierry; Huet, Frédéric; Millet, Dominique // 2015
To be consistent with sustainable innovation, production and consumption evolution, business model design needs to be reconsidered to jointly redefine the value proposition, the productive ...
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXCELLENT DESIGNERS – FINDINGS FROM AN INTERVIEW STUDY WITH SWEDISH INNOVATORS
Axelsson, Louise; Blome, Simon; Nourbarpour, Dennis; Naenzen, Johan; Yvonne, Platon; Malmqvist, Johan Lars // 2015
Some designers are more successful than others. They have the ability to repeatedly generate new and innovative solutions to challenging problems. In this paper, we refer to designers who possess ...
THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF USING 3D- PRINTING IN LOW-RESOURCE HEALTHCARE SETTINGS
Rismani, Shalaleh; Van der Loos, H.F.Machiel // 2015
Fabrication of medical devices using 3D-printing (3DP) technology can reduce the lack of adequate supply of medical devices in low-resource hospitals. Similar to Information and Communication ...
THE DESIGN AND DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION: THE BRAZILIAN CASE OF THE "ECOLOGICAL NETWORK"
Xavier, Amanda Fernandes; Naveiro, Ricardo Manfredi; Aoussat, Améziane; Mello, Carlos Henrique Pereira // 2015
The design has been receiving a increasing importance due to the market complexity and environmental unsustainability concerns, being it a strategic tool for positioning of sustainable products and ...
THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF INDIVIDUALISED PERFECT-FIT PACKAGING SOLUTIONS
Dhokia, Vimal; Newman, Stephen Thomas // 2015
With continuing growth in the personalised high value product manufacturing sector, there is a need to provide new ways to store and transport high value parts economically in small batches/batches ...
THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING BACKGROUND AND DESIGN TOOLS ON MULTI-LEVEL BIOSYSTEMS DESIGN
Egan, Paul; Ho, Tiffany; Schunn, Christian; Cagan, Jonathan; LeDuc, Philip // 2015
Biotechnologies could promote healthier lives through advancements such as complex multi-level muscle tissues. Here, cognitive processes among mechanics experts, physiology experts, and novices were ...
THE EVOLUTION OF TERMINOLOGY WITHIN A LARGE DISTRIBUTED ENGINEERING PROJECT
Gopsill, JaMES Anthony; Jones, Simon; Snider, Chris; Shi, Lei; Hicks, Ben JaMES // 2015
Communication features in many engineering activities within an engineering project. It is the main form by which information & knowledge is shared, and facilitates the generation of a shared ...
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.