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The Humanitarian Innovation lab dialogue series: Defining the 'how's' of humanitarian innovation at NTNU
Nielsen, Brita Fladvad // 2016
Humanitarian crises are expanding in frequency and the humanitarian system is overwhelmed by the difficulties of linking sustainability, resilience and urgent response through humanitarian action. ...
THE INFLUENCE OF PRODUCT COMPLEXITY ON TEAM PERFORMANCE WITHIN NPD
Fain, N.; Žavbi, R.; Vukašinović, N. // 2016
This paper explores the influence of product complexity on team performance. A longitudinal case study of a Masters course European Global Product Realisation, where 4 universities collaborate on ...
THE NATURE AS AN INSPIRATION TO ENCOURAGE USERS TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF PACKAGING
Johansen, Linn Victoria; Berg, Arild // 2016
Biomimicry depends on three key principles: nature as a model, nature as a goal and nature as a
mentor. By studying nature, there may be several answers to challenges that have already been ...
THE PROJECT DESIGN EDUCATION COLLABORATING WITH CITY GOVERNMENTS AND COMMUNITIES
Ito, Takao; Shin, Masako; Miyazaki, Keisuke; Iwata, Setsuo; Sentoku, Eiichi // 2016
Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) applies Project-Based Learning (PBL) as a backbone of the
curriculum and names it Project Design Program. The program combines its curriculum and ...
THE USE OF THE “HACKATHON” IN DESIGN EDUCATION: AN OPPORTUNISTIC EXPLORATION.
Page, Finlay; Sweeney, Sylvester; Bruce, Fraser; Baxter, Seaton // 2016
This paper reports on a “Hackathon” attended by 195 participants at an event in the University of
Dundee in September 2015. In collaboration with a leading retailer of greeting cards and products ...
THE USER-DRIVEN CREATIVE ACADEMY
Møller (1), Louise; Bolvig Poulsen (2), Søren // 2016
Users have always been a point of focus in design, but in the beginning of the new millennium userdriven
approaches and user-oriented projects were taken to a new level of recognition. As part of ...
THINK.MAKE.START. - AN AGILE FRAMEWORK
Böhmer, A.; Richter, C.; Hostettler, R.; Schneider, P.; Plum, I.; Böhler, D.; Lindemann, U.; Conradt, J.; Knoll, A. // 2016
According to Vetter (2011), there are two main perspectives regarding the innovation processes: object-specific and context-specific. A pure phase and context consideration is no longer appropriate. ...
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN CONCEPTUAL DESIGN TOWARDS CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Widgren, M.; Sakao, T. // 2016
Manufacturing industry faces challenges in implementing design methods for Circular Economy into practice, since much is unanswered due to its complexity and insufficient research. This conference ...
USING MOVING IMAGE TO FACILITATE STORYTELLING AS AN IDEATION METHODOLOGY AND A PLATFORM TO ENHANCE THE INTEGRATION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COHORTS WITHIN PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION
Firth, Richard; Stoltenberg, Einar // 2016
The use of moving image within HE (Higher Education) Product Design is increasing. Here, film is
commonly used as a tool for the presentation of concepts or finished objects, as an instructional ...
‘ONE THING BETTER’ AND ‘REDESIGNING DESIGN EDUCATION’ - A COLLABORATION BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA
Forkes, Andrew; Cooper-Wright, Matt // 2016
The Design industries are in positive flux and academia is trying to follow the pace as best it can;
however some of the structures within academic frameworks restrict flexibility to mimic an ...
A FRAMEWORK OF WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES IN EARLY DESIGN AND R&D OF LARGE COMPLEX ENGINEERED SYSTEMS
McGowan, Anna-Maria Rivas; Papalambros, Panos; Baker, Wayne // 2015
This paper examines four primary methods of working across disciplines during R&D and early design of large-scale complex engineered systems such as aerospace systems. A conceptualized framework, ...
A PROPOSAL FOR KNOWLEDGE FORMALIZATION IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES
Klein, Patrick; Luetzenberger, Johannes; Thoben, Klaus-Dieter // 2015
With respect to time-to-market and product development Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) solutions, which enable an automation of design tasks, can contribute to a significant reduction of ...
A VISUAL INTERFACE DIAGRAM FOR MAPPING FUNCTIONS IN INTEGRATED PRODUCTS
Ingerslev, Mattias; Jespersen, Mikkel Oliver; Goehler, Simon Moritz; Howard, Thomas J. // 2015
In product development there is a recognized tendency towards increased functionality for each new product generation. This leads to more integrated and complex products, with the risk of development ...
An Adjustable Impedance Element – System Requirements and Design Approach (Members only )
Bruchmüller, Tim; Mangold, Sebastian; Matthiesen, Sven; Oltmann, Jan; Rasmussen, Olaf; Krause, Dieter; Stücheli, Marius; Meboldt, Mirko // 2015
Dynamic test are mostly performed in specific test setups with adjustable
boundary conditions and relevant aspects of the product environment. The
dynamic characteristics of the environment and ...
AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO SUPPORT PLANNING FOR CHANGE DURING EARLY DESIGN
Fernandes, João; Henriques, Elsa; Silva, Arlindo; Pimentel, César // 2015
Early design is the most dynamic and unpredictable stage of complex design processes, since it involves a great deal of uncertainty, collaborative iteration and adaptive organizational behaviour. ...
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE SPECIFICATIONS PROCESS IN A CUSTOMER-SUPPLIER COLLABORATIVE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Yager, Matthieu; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Merminod, Valéry // 2015
In this paper we focus on the collaborative process of definition of specifications of a complex product. The aim of the paper is to improve the understanding of the specifications elaboration ...
AN INTELLIGENT DESIGN ENVIRONMENT FOR CHANGEABILITY MANAGEMENT - APPLICATION TO MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
Benkamoun, Nadège; Kouiss, Khalid; Huyet, Anne-Lise // 2015
Design for system changeability and reusability has been sought by engineers from several disciplines. It has lead to the emergence of numerous strategies and paradigms. Especially in conceptual ...
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO EMBEDDING THE GLOBAL DIMENSION INTO ENGINEERING DESIGN: EMPATHY, ENGAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY
Hauke, Elizabeth; Cresswell-Maynard, Katie; Craddock, Daniel // 2015
Education, and specifically engineering design, has a lot to offer in our efforts to promote and achieve sustainable human development (SHD). A focus on SHD can be enhanced by non-disciplinary and ...
Application of DSM in the field Organizational Psychology (Members only )
Fink, S.; Kasperek, D.; Reif, J.; Kugler, K.; Brodbeck, F.; Maurer, M. // 2015
As organizations face many challenges such as globalization or a dynamic and complex environment, new forms of collaboration have emerged like Multiteam Systems (MTS). MTS can be described as complex ...
ARGUMENTATION ANALYSIS IN AN UPSTREAM PHASE OF AN INNOVATION PROJECT
Abou Eddahab, Fatima-Zahra; Prudhomme, Guy; Masclet, Cedric; Lund, Kris; Boujut, Jean-François // 2015
Nowadays the innovation process has become a collective activity where designers have no longer to work only in their own field of expertise but they have also to work with others in project meetings ...
ASSESSING MODULARISATION TRANSITION WITH METRICS
Heilemann, Markus; Steve, Culley; Meike, Schlueter; Vera, Lindemer // 2015
Modularisation is a major area of interest within the field of engineering design. In order to support engineers in establishing modular product architectures, researchers have published a wide ...
BARRIERS TO HINDER COLLABORATION WITHIN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS FROM DESIGNERS’ PERSPECTIVE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD TO FACILITATE THE COLLABORATION
Kim, Yeonghun; Kim, Chajoong; Cho, Kwangmin; Kim, Kwanmyung // 2015
To be successful in the market, industries have kept trying to increase users’ satisfaction with their new products. Under this circumstance, firms have realized the importance of collaborative ...
BOUNDARY OBJECTS IN OPEN SOURCE DESIGN: EXPERIENCES FROM OSE COMMUNITY
Affonso, Claudia Andressa Cruz; Amaral, Daniel Capaldo // 2015
The open source design (OSD) is an autonomous community dedicated to design new products, peer-to-peer, and with intellectual property copyleft. Boundary Objects (BOs) are objects to aid on the ...
BRIDGING THE 'VALLEY OF DEATH' IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE DRILL COVER PROJECT
Gheorghe, Florin; Hodgson, Antony J.; Van der Loos, H.F. Machiel // 2015
Innovation in the medical device industry is frequently driven by collaborations between engineers and clinicians in an academic setting. However, many such projects, especially within student design ...
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.