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The Role of Empirical Studies in Understanding and Supporting Engineering Design

Author : Eswaran Subrahmanian
Publisher : Delft University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Role of Empirical Studies in Understanding and Supporting Engineering Design by : Eswaran Subrahmanian

Download or read book The Role of Empirical Studies in Understanding and Supporting Engineering Design written by Eswaran Subrahmanian and published by Delft University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings from a 2002 workshop on engineering design, under the general editorship of Eswaran Subrahmanian, from Carnegie Mellon University. Topics include: Case studies on knowledge collection & shgaring the design process. Collaborative design processes. Empirical studies in engineering design. Three dimensions of the design process. Innovative tools for design. Industrial studies. Architectural design. Team interaction space. Sociotechnical approach. Prototypes & boundary objects. Is there a future for design thinking research? The user-designer confrontation.

Expanding the Frontiers of Design

Author : Gabriela Goldschmidt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000935485
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Expanding the Frontiers of Design by : Gabriela Goldschmidt

Download or read book Expanding the Frontiers of Design written by Gabriela Goldschmidt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Thinking, a method widely used in design business and management, has changed the landscape of contemporary design. Whereas in the past non-designers were called upon to serve as external consultants ad-hoc, in an effort to promote creativity and innovation most design teams now consist of a mix of designers and other professionals. The impact of this development on the design landscape in recent years is so far without thorough investigation and analysis of its various influences. This book comprises an edited collection of selected papers from the 13th Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS13) which offers an exploration of Design Thinking from theoretical, practical, and pedagogical perspectives as well as critical analysis of the design process. The book is arranged in five parts as follows: Part 1: Thinking about design Part 2: Design thinking in the studio Part 3: Design thinking in practice and professional training Part 4: Design teams of diverse backgrounds, Interdisciplinary projects Part 5: Design and nature; visual representation Providing a comprehensive source for new perspectives on design and Design Thinking, Expanding the Frontiers of Design is ideal for designers and design academics of all disciplines wishing to strengthen and innovate their practice, as well as industry leaders who seek to consolidate their business strategies and evolve their work.

Collaborative and Distributed Chemical Engineering. From Understanding to Substantial Design Process Support

Author : Manfred Nagl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354070552X
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Collaborative and Distributed Chemical Engineering. From Understanding to Substantial Design Process Support by : Manfred Nagl

Download or read book Collaborative and Distributed Chemical Engineering. From Understanding to Substantial Design Process Support written by Manfred Nagl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPROVE stands for "Information Technology Support for Collaborative and Distributed Design Processes in Chemical Engineering" and is a large joint project of research institutions at RWTH Aachen University. This volume summarizes the results after 9 years of cooperative research work. The focus of IMRPOVE is on understanding, formalizing, evaluating, and, consequently, improving design processes in chemical engineering. In particular, IMPROVE focuses on conceptual design and basic engineering, where the fundamental decisions concerning the design or redesign of a chemical plant are undertaken. Design processes are analyzed and evaluated in collaboration with industrial partners.

Computer-Based Design

Author : Tamir Shahin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781860583728
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (837 download)

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Book Synopsis Computer-Based Design by : Tamir Shahin

Download or read book Computer-Based Design written by Tamir Shahin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers from a conference held at Kings College, London. Computer-based Design focuses on all areas of design using computational methods and examines how all these individual tools can be integrated to produce a coherent design process. This volume also covers areas of manual design methods and modelling that are vital to the continuing development and evolution of the computer-aided design process. TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE Product design and modelling Design process Decision-making models Computer-assisted design systems Computer-assisted conceptual design Computer-assisted detailed design Computer assisted design for manufacture Design knowledge manipulation Engineering change Engineering design issues Fuzzy design Computer-aided design Industrial applications of design Advanced design applications Computational fluid dynamics Computer-based Design provides an excellent opportunity for an update on the latest techniques and developments from concept to advanced application in the design arena.

Studying Designers'05

Author : John S. Gero
Publisher : Key Centre of Design Comp & Cogntn
ISBN 13 : 186487743X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (648 download)

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Book Synopsis Studying Designers'05 by : John S. Gero

Download or read book Studying Designers'05 written by John S. Gero and published by Key Centre of Design Comp & Cogntn. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virtual Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author : Kisielnicki, Jerzy
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599049562
Total Pages : 1842 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Virtual Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Kisielnicki, Jerzy

Download or read book Virtual Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Kisielnicki, Jerzy and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 1842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication presents incompassing research of the concepts and realities involved in the field of virtual communities and technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics

Author : Christopher M. Schlick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642012930
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics by : Christopher M. Schlick

Download or read book Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics written by Christopher M. Schlick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 60th birthday of Prof. Luczak is the reason for this book. He will be honoured for his research work during the "GfA-confernece" in March 2009. This book is the correspondig "Festschrift" for him.

Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co-Creation

Author : MacGregor, Steven P.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599041316
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co-Creation by : MacGregor, Steven P.

Download or read book Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co-Creation written by MacGregor, Steven P. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents advanced research on the concept of creativity using virtual teams, demonstrating a specific focus and application for virtual teams. It presents tools, processes, and frameworks to advance the overall concept that leveraging ideas from different locations in an organization and within extended networks is based on creativity, which can deliver innovation"--Provided by publisher.

An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design

Author : Amaresh Chakrabarti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447163389
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Book Synopsis An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design by : Amaresh Chakrabarti

Download or read book An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design written by Amaresh Chakrabarti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While investigations into both theories and models has remained a major strand of engineering design research, current literature sorely lacks a reference book that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of theories and models, and their philosophical and empirical underpinnings; An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design fills this gap. The text collects the expert views of an international authorship, covering: · significant theories in engineering design, including CK theory, domain theory, and the theory of technical systems; · current models of design, from a function behavior structure model to an integrated model; · important empirical research findings from studies into design; and · philosophical underpinnings of design itself. For educators and researchers in engineering design, An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design gives access to in-depth coverage of theoretical and empirical developments in this area; for practitioners, the book will provide exposure to theoretical and empirical foundations to methods and tools that are currently practiced as well as those in the process of development.

Empirical Design in Structural Engineering

Author : Thomas Boothby
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0727766341
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Empirical Design in Structural Engineering by : Thomas Boothby

Download or read book Empirical Design in Structural Engineering written by Thomas Boothby and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through case studies from North America, Europe and Asia, Empirical Design in Structural Engineering shows that empirical design is practised much more widely than is generally understood,that it can make a valuable contribution to structural engineering design, and can be found embedded within the procedures of rational engineering design.

Sustaining Innovation

Author : Steven P MacGregor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461420768
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Innovation written by Steven P MacGregor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the process of innovation is a constant social dance, where the best dancers thrive by adapting new steps with multiple partners. The systematic and continuous generation of value in any innovation system relies on collaboration between different groups, who must overcome multiple, often competing agendas and needs to work together fruitfully over the long term. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, business leaders, and policymakers representing North America, Europe, India, Africa, and Australasia, this volume investigates different combinations of collaborative arrangements among innovation actors, many of which are changing conventional expectations of institutional relationships. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that no particular combination has emerged as the most dominant, or even resilient, model of innovation. Several authors expand on our understanding of the triple helix model, with both academics and practitioners looking to the quadruple helix (encompassing business, academic, government, and civil society) as the new standard. Other authors address aspects of open innovation, co-creation, and user-centered design—all testaments to the rapidly shifting landscape. At the same time, many businesses, academics, and governments, not to mention non-profit organizations, foundations, and society at large, are active in conversations about how to pursue a more sustainable model of innovation. The pursuit of this holy grail of innovation is both facilitated and complicated by an ever-accelerating technological environment in which social networking and mobile tools are emerging as new dance arenas.

ICoRD'13

Author : Amaresh Chakrabarti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 8132210506
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Book Synopsis ICoRD'13 by : Amaresh Chakrabarti

Download or read book ICoRD'13 written by Amaresh Chakrabarti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-12 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases over 100 cutting-edge research papers from the 4th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD’13) – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from over 20 countries, on the design process, methods and tools, for supporting global product development (GPD). The special features of the book are the variety of insights into the GPD process, and the host of methods and tools at the cutting edge of all major areas of design research for its support. The main benefit of this book for researchers in engineering design and GPD are access to the latest quality research in this area; for practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of methods and tools that can be taught and practiced.

Understanding and Supporting Product-Service System Designing

Author : Abhijna Neramballi
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 9179298516
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (792 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding and Supporting Product-Service System Designing by : Abhijna Neramballi

Download or read book Understanding and Supporting Product-Service System Designing written by Abhijna Neramballi and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This licentiate thesis aims to establish the basis for scientifically understanding and supporting the cognitive processes involved in the conceptual design of resource- efficient and effective product-service systems (PSSs). The research carried out is transdisciplinary in nature and includes both prescriptive and descriptive studies. First, the cognitive nature of conceptual PSS designing is investigated. Multiple pre-experimental protocol studies in a laboratory setting are carried out to do so. The cohort of these explorative studies includes experienced industrial practitioners conceptually designing a resource-efficient PSS. These descriptive studies provide quantitative insights into the cognitive effort expended by designers on various design issues and processes during conceptual PSS designing and its potential differences to conceptual product designing. These insights form the basis for future research that can eventually shine light on this complex process with statistically significant empirical results. Second, the essence of extant prescriptive PSS design principles, methods and tools is distilled through a literature analysis and synthesis of the state of the art. Subsequently, important aspects that need to be considered during conceptual PSS designing are consolidated in the form of a PSS design schema. Third, a design navigator named lifecycle-oriented function deployment (LFD) is developed. LFD is essentially a contextual decision-making support tool, developed to guide the conceptual designing of environmentally benign PSSs. This tool informs the designers regarding the potential environmental impacts of specific design parameters of an existing offering. It subsequently guides the designers in the redesign of this existing offering into a PSS with relatively benign environmental impacts. Fourth, the effects of the two proposed prescriptions are tested empirically. True experimental protocol studies are carried out in a laboratory setting to test the effects of the prescriptive PSS design schema on the cognition of PSS designers. LFD is applied in an industrial case study using the action design research method, to support the conceptual redesign of an existing product-centric offering into an environmentally benign PSS. Environmental impacts of the PSS concepts generated using LFD are then evaluated in comparison to that of the existing offering, using simulated lifecycle assessment. A semi-structured interview is carried out to evaluate the utility and usability of LFD, with the company personnel involved in the conceptual redesign process. This licentiate thesis is an effort to effectively design the future research work of the author. This future work will aim to support and establish generalizable scientific knowledge regarding the conceptual designing of resource-efficient and effective PSSs.

Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering

Author : Forrest Shull
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781849967129
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering written by Forrest Shull and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers chapters from some of the top international empirical software engineering researchers focusing on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical methods in software engineering. Topics and features include guidance on how to design, conduct and report empirical studies. The volume also provides information across a range of techniques, methods and qualitative and quantitative issues to help build a toolkit applicable to the diverse software development contexts

Engineering Practice in a Global Context

Author : Bill Williams
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0415636965
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Practice in a Global Context written by Bill Williams and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to provide the reader with a broad cross-section of empirical research being carried out into engineers at work. The chapters provide pointers to other relevant studies over recent decades – an important aspect, we believe, because this area has only recently begun to coalesce as a field of study and up to now relevant empirical research has tended to be published across a range of academic disciplines. This lack of readily available literature might explain why contemporary notions of engineering have drifted far from the realities of practice and are in urgent need of revision. The principal focus is on what empirical studies tell us about the social and technical aspects of engineering practice and the mutual interaction between the two. After a foreword by Gary Lee Downey, the research presented by the various chapter authors is based on empirical data from studies of engineers working in a variety of global settings that include Australia, Ireland, Portugal, South Asia, Switzerland, the UK and the US The following groups of readers are addressed: •researchers and students with an interest in engineering practice, •professional engineers, particularly those interested in research on engineering practice, •engineering educators, •people who employ, recruit or work with engineers. Providing a much clearer picture of engineering practice and its variations than has been available until now, the book is of interest to engineers and those who work with them. At the same time it provides invaluable resource material for educators who are aiming for more authentic learning experiences in their classrooms. Further information, visit the website Engineering Practice in a Global Context Online: http://epr.ist.utl.pt/EPGC/

DRM, a Design Research Methodology

Author : Lucienne T.M. Blessing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848825870
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book DRM, a Design Research Methodology written by Lucienne T.M. Blessing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The initial motivator for the development of DRM, a Design Research Methodology, and the subsequent writing of this book was our frustration about the lack of a common terminology, benchmarked research methods, and above all, a common research methodology in design. A shared view of the goals and framework for doing design research was missing. Design is a multidisciplinary activity occurring in multiple application areas and involving multiple stakeholders. As a consequence, design research emerges in a variety of disciplines for a variety of applications with a variety of subjects. This makes it particularly difficult to review its literature, relate various pieces of work, find common ground, and validate and share results that are so essential for sustained progress in a research community. Above all, design research needs to be successful not only in an academic sense, but also in a practical sense. How could we help the community develop knowledge that is both academically and practically worthwhile? Each of us had our individual ideas of how this situation could be improved. Lucienne Blessing, while finishing her thesis that involved studying and improving the design process, developed valuable insights about the importance and relationship of empirical studies in developing and evaluating these improvements. Amaresh Chakrabarti, while finishing his thesis on developing and evaluating computational tools for improving products, had developed valuable insights about integrating and improving the processes of building and evaluating tools.

ECSCW 2005

Author : Hans Gellersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402040221
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book ECSCW 2005 written by Hans Gellersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence and widespread use personal computers and network technologies have seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area that embraces the development of new technologies grounded in actual cooperative practices. These proceedings contain a collection of papers that reflect the variegated research activities in the field. The volume includes papers addressing novel interaction technologies for CSCW systems, new models and architectures for groupware systems, studies of communication and coordination among mobile actors, studies of cooperative work in complex settings, studies of groupware systems in actual use in real-world settings, and theories and techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The papers present emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches to the development of this important class of applications. The work in this volume represents the best of the current research and practice within CSCW. The collection of papers presented here will appeal to researchers and practitioners alike, as they combine an understanding of the nature of work with the possibility offered by new technologies.