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RE-THINKING STUDENT DESIGN PROJECTS FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
Reynolds, Timothy James; Jenkins, Barry // 2023
In recent years, sustainability has become a core constituent of contemporary undergraduate Product Design courses. However, many students continue to struggle to put theory into practice when ...
READING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC… ROUNDNESS? PREPARING YOUNGER LEARNERS WITH FOUNDATIONAL CIRCULAR ECONOMY EDUCATION TO ALLOW FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY ACCELERATION AT HIGHER EDUCATION
Potter, Claire J // 2023
By its very nature, education is a moving practice. As new theories, practices, technologies and evidence emerges, all educators have a responsibility to ensure their teaching is at the forefront of ...
RENOVATING ENGINEERING DEPARTEMENTS’ CREATION HERITAGE TO MEET CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: FRUGAL VALIDATION PATTERNS AND CONSTRUCTIVE PROOF LOGICS FOR NEW ENGINEERING RULES
Jibet, Nafissa (1,2); Le Masson, Pascal (1); Weil, Benoît (1); Chazelle, Blandine (2); Laousse, Dominique (2) // 2023
Engineering departments design infrastructure by applying rule systems. The latter are an old creation heritage, based on decades of engineering, that makes it possible to design and govern the ...
Shape Generation System for Optimizing Aesthetic Interest associated with Novelty and Complexity
Honda, Shimon;
Yanagisawa, Hideyoshi // 2023
Design aesthetics are one of the most important factors affecting the attractiveness of industrial products. Psychological theory suggests that a moderate level of novelty and complexity yields ...
Sheafification as a design technique for creative preservation - principles, illustrations, and first applications
Le Masson, Pascal;
Hatchuel, Armand;
Weil, Benoit // 2023
In times of ‘grand challenges’, design theorists dealing with complex systems are facing a dilemma: grand challenges require rule breaking, but they also require the preservation, as much as ...
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION THROUGH AN APPRECIATION OF THE LOW-TECH
Almrott, Ceri // 2023
Philippe Bihoux, in his 2014 work, L’Âge des low tech: vers une civilization techniquement soutenable suggests that developing increasingly high-tech solutions to address the sustainability crisis is ...
Systematic optimisation process for an eBike Drive Unit in a highly variable environment
Steck, Marco (1,2);
Husung, Stephan (2);
Hassler, Julien (1) // 2023
Drive units of eBikes are used in every type of bicycle and for different riding scenarios and riders. Due to the different riders and bike types, an enormous variety of influencing parameters and ...
The Aristotelian causalities in localised distributed manufacturing
Skouboe, Esben Bala; Barros, Mário // 2023
Half of the total greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of biodiversity loss come from resource extraction and processing. (EC 2020). To counter this, we must switch to sustainable, long-lasting products ...
The Augmented Designer: A Research Agenda for Generative AI-enabled Design
Thoring, Katja (1);
Huettemann, Sebastian (2);
Mueller, Roland M. (2) // 2023
Generative AI algorithms that are able to generate creative output are progressing at tremendous speed. This paper presents a research agenda for Generative AI-based support for designers. We present ...
The Balance Between a Usable and Emotional Product Design - A Concept for Prioritising Relevant Influencing Factors
Judith van Remmen, Dennis Horber, Jorg Miehling, Sandro Wartzack // 2023
Usability and emotionality represent fundamental aspects of user experience. Yet designing an equally usable and emotionally appealing product remains a challenge for product developers, not least ...
The design mindset inventory (D-Mindset0): a preliminary instrument for measuring design mindset.
Lavrsen, Jakob Clemen (1);
Daalhuizen, Jaap (1);
Carbon, Claus-Christian (2) // 2023
Mindset has been identified as an essential aspect of design and innovation, impacting both behaviours and performance. However, the concept of design mindset is elusive. Often design mindset is used ...
The Influence of Representation on System Interpretation: A Search for Most Common Set Partitions
Murphy, Alexander R. (1);
Patel, Apurva R. (1);
Zorn, Stefan (2);
Gericke, Kilian (2);
Summers, Joshua D. (1) // 2023
During engineering design, different representations are used to convey information about a systems' components, functionality, spatial layout, and interdependencies. These varying representations ...
The situatedness of design concepts: empirical evidence from design teams in engineering
Gero, John;
Milovanovic, Julie // 2023
Situatedness in design suggest that designing is situated within the design process or the cognitive actions taken by the designer, the designer’s expertise and know-how, the designer’s experience ...
The Study of Cognitive Differences between Designers and Users based on Schema Theory
Guo, Su (1,2);
Fan, Shengxi (1);
Meng, Yichen (2) // 2023
This study is grounded upon the cognitive process and knowledge representation, analyzes the differences in perceptions between designers and users by applying schema theory. Per design process, we ...
TIME – AS ESSENTIAL FACTOR TO RE-DESIGN LECTURES OF ‘GESTALT-THEORY’ - SDG 4 IN EUROPE AND RE-WRITING ART AND DESIGN HISTORY
Wachs, Marina-Elena; Hoffmann, Andreas // 2023
WHAT ABOUT Within the scientific cycle of design / historians and design theorists, likewise other teacher in ‘Gestalt-theory’, we have to take the element of ‘time’ as significant creating factor, ...
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL CO-HABITATION
Tully, Robert // 2023
In an age of disruption and challenging educational demands, we need our Higher Education Institutions to make the necessary changes in policy and strategy to remain relevant. Responsible innovation ...
Uncertainty management in product development portfolios: the impact of global sustainability agendas
Filipovic, Andy Mattulat (1,2);
Welo, Torgeir (1);
Willumsen, Pelle Lundquist (2);
Oehmen, Josef (2) // 2023
Increased focus on sustainability significantly impacts product development portfolio management in organizations. This paper focuses on the significant unaccommodated uncertainty caused by the green ...
UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGING CLIMATE SKEPTIC ATTITUDES AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH INTERACTIVE PEDAGOGY
Elden Wilhelmsen, Marthe; O'born, Reyn; Heimdal, Anette; Ruser, Alexander // 2023
This paper investigates the prevalence of climate skepticism among 3rd year engineering students and seeks to understand how pedagogical interventions can be used to challenge climate skeptic views. ...
Understanding upcycling and circular economy and their interrelationships through literature review for design education
Sung, Kyungeun // 2023
Design and engineering are fundamental activities in shaping the world we live in. Educating new generations in design and engineering, therefore, is crucial to build a better and more sustainable ...
Using Pleasurability to Compare Wristwatches and IoT Smartwatches: Providing Novel Insights into UX Design
Lin, Zidong (1);
Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema (2);
Hall, Ashley (1);
Sommer, Bjorn (1) // 2023
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought more challenges for designers to fully understand networked objects and develop pleasurable user experiences (UXs). Due to the radical change ...
What Determines VR Integration in Design Practice? An Investigation of Industrial Designer's Acceptance of VR Visualisation Tools
Zhang, Wendy (1);
Ranscombe, Charlie (2);
Piumsomboon, Thammathip (1);
Mallya, Prabha (1) // 2023
Emerging visualisation tools based on eXtended Reality (XR) platforms offer designers new possibilities and benefits, attracting increasing interest from academia and industry. However, as the users ...
Additive Manufacturing Conformity – A Practical View
Gregory-Jamie T // 2022
With the dissemination of additive manufacturing (AM), numerous methods have emerged to support the design process. One possibility is to improve functional solutions through AM-conformal design. ...
Advantages of 3D Printing for Circular Economy and Its Influence on Designers
Youzhi Chen // 2022
Based on the theoretical research of 3D printing and circular economy, combined with case studies, this paper analyzes the advantages of 3D printing in realizing circular economy and its influence on ...
Assessing Social Behaviour Towards Near-Body Product Users in the Wild: A Review of Methods
Muriel De Boeck, Jochen Vleugels, Dirk Van Rooy, Kristof Vaes // 2022
Prior to wide adoption, a product must find social approval, which is especially true for near-body products as they are considered part of the human body. Based on a theoretical foundation, this ...
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.