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Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss SACS review, general education courses, academic quality, graduate council functions and elections.

Concerto Competition Final Round, Sergiu Schwartz

Concerto Competition

Competition Coordinator

• Professor Sergiu Schwartz

Jury

• Boaz Shaton, piano
• Michael Klotz, viola
• Wendell Simmons

Piano Accompanists

• Tao Lin
• Lisa Leonard

Finalists

• Karl Richards, piano - Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3
• Oliver Salonga, piano - Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 2
• Girard Villanueva, clarinet - Copland, Clarinet Concerto
• Daniel Andai, violin and Dmitri Pogorelov, viola - Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364
• Joel Silva de Souza, cello - Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1
• Brandie Phillips, violin - Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
• Nelli Jabotinsky, violin - Bruch, Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor
• Sylvia Kim, violin …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the December 1, 2004 meeting.

Nelig Meeting - November 19, 2004, New England Library Instruction Group

New England Library Instruction Group

NELIG quarterly meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding elections, curriculum committee, faculty grievance procedure, charter revision, graduate council functions, student privacy and faculty evaluations.

The Research-Exhibition: Some Useful On-Line Media For This Alternative Publication Format Of The Design Research Community., Alec Robertson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

There is occasional discussion and studies done on the nature of design research and the success of its publication formats (1)(2)(3)(4). The topic was pursued by Rust and Robertson (5), who explored the notion of the ‘Research- Exhibition’ as an alternative to the research-paper at the DRS Biennial 2002 Common Ground Conference. This paper builds upon the experience of work on the on-line record of the experimental DRS Common Ground Exhibition 2002 (6), and reminds us of some of the general background issues identified by Rust and Robertson, its co- organisers. It provides further modest pointers as to possible use …

Exploring Emotional Responses On Empathic Objects., Ming-Huang Lin, Yu-Hung Chien

DRS Biennial Conference Series

According to Franco Fornari’s theory of ‘affective codes’, and the concept of ‘transitional objects’ from the studies of British psycholoanalyst Donald Woods Winnicott, Alberto Alessi, the key figure in his organisation, has developed and established the language of empathic objects in the Alessi workshop and through subsequent production. These objects reveal great passion and display the strong Alessi identity. Alessi’s discovery illustrates a fascinating and exciting psychological approach to design. Based on his hypotheses, this research aims to probe people’s emotional responses when facing these objects.

Resistant Geometry, Architecture And Subjectivity., Tom Loveday

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Can there be a de-subjectivised architectural design practice? This paper draws on some of the issues discussed in my PhD in regard to the relationship between art and architecture. The paper starts with the proposition that with the revival of visually aestheticised architectural design through digital representation, that there is a strengthening of “Enlightenment Subjectivity” in architectural design. It is proposed that this strengthening draws design in architecture away from trends towards de- subjectivisation in other disciplines such as art theory and philosophy. It is expected that the conclusion to the paper will be that, due to this resurgence of …

Deconstruction Sites: An Interpretive Case Study Of The Design Of The Emerging Cultural Landscape., Vince Dziekan

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper will critique museum spaces as an “institution” of artistic practice and evaluate the designed relationship of art to space and its predispositions. The research will investigate how artworks are not only accommodated by the architectural realization of physical spaces but also by the way that their design (acting as a “framework”) structures types of resulting art practices that can be supported and privileged by those spaces. Recognizing the intertwining of such design concerns has implications that extend to artistic practice, curatorship and art history.

Designing Design Research Within A Collaborative Research Centre: A Flexible Approach To Working With Scientists, Government, Industry And Academia., Lyndon Anderson, Lucy Allnutt, Christine Thony

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Whilst certain CRCs use industrial designers on a fee for service basis, few have been involved as key activity drivers from the beginning and for the duration of a CRC. The National institute of Design, Swinburne University of Technology has been involved since the beginning of the CRC for Wood Innovations. Appropriate design strategies suitable for PhD candidates and research in a variety of complex environments have been developed, implemented and continue to evolve.

Urban Design: Not Just 'Delight', But 'Commodity' And 'Firmness' As Well., Ina Klaasen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In 1961, in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs stated 'A city can not be a work of art'. 40 years later this message has not yet reached most urban designers. Influenced by the discipline of architecture the achievement of experiential value, particularly in cultural and aesthetic respects, guided by personal form concepts, is the central issue. The focus is on final processes with a relatively large temporal grain: the transformation of urban area (counted in years or decades). (http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/onderzoek/portfolio/ (Research Theme Urbanisme 02-2004). The New Charter of Athens (The European Council of Town Planners, 2003) …

Beyond Regularity: Questions Concerning Usefulness., Terry Rosenberg

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper advances a motion that ‘usefulness’ is a regularity (Foucault) that haunts the programme of design and severely restricts it. It will highlight the way design practice is, in the main, constrained by narrow determination of its use(s), generally, and notions of ‘usefulness’ in particular. It will move to explain the way that design(ing) is flattened ontologically by embedded notions of ‘usefulness’ and that these embedded notions have set for design and its discourse a deontic straitjacket. That is, a set of obligations and duties that set a regular delimitation of design and thus rigid intentions for outcomes in …

The Azure Sky, The Design Made., Peter Downton

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Research is undertaken to produce knowledge. Typically, research is divided into two classes – applied research intended to result in a useful and probably commercial outcome, and basic research which normally endeavour s to extend the horizons of the known in the quest for knowledge that may one day have a purpose. Sometimes basic research is curiosity-driven; it is exploration of new or poorly-known territories, a path that design may also take. On many accounts, design is excluded from the domain of research – although it is inherently present to the extent that experiments are designed. The real presence of …

Macroscopic Feature Driven Shape Generation Method For Curve Design Support., Yoshiki Ujiie, Yoshiyuki Matsuoka

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In styling design, the construction of method for representation of macroscopic feature and the construction of method for control of macroscopic feature are important. This paper describes the method for representation of macroscopic feature "complexity" in curved profile, and the shape generation method for control of complexity. Firstly, method for representation of macroscopic feature "complexity" was proposed. "Complexity" affects evaluation of the important factor on design, such as "beauty" and "similarity." In the present study, the method for representation of complexity was applied to the diverse curved profiles. As a result, it was found that curvature integration represents the complexity …

A Pilot Study Of Establishing An On-Line Design Audit Platform., Tung-Jung Sung, Chia-Hou Chen, Manlai You

DRS Biennial Conference Series

To identify gaps between current and desired performance, audits of organizational activities have been developed in many areas. However, past studies take little account on a holistic inspection of the design activities of an enterprise in a practical way. Furthermore, the audit approach is evolving from the traditional manual process of paper documentation to a paperless, electronic, and online one. To continually inspect design activities, this study aims at developing an online design audit platform (ODAP) for application in an enterprise.

User-Centred Approach In Visual And Spatial Reasoning: Design Research In Wayfinding Map Design., Christopher Kueh

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Designing effective wayfinding maps to assist people to navigate effectively within a specific environment has always been an issue. According to Wright, ‘[users] have responded negatively to map design in the past ... ’(cited in Wood 1993). The aim of this paper is to address the importance of user-centred approaches in the design of wayfinding maps. In this paper I am proposing that graphic and information designers should emphasize the interaction processes between people and maps, people and the physical environment, and the relationship that people create between the map and the environment. This paper also suggests a speculative wayfinding …

A Study On The Mode Of User Interface For The Elderly., Wang-Chin Tsai

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mode of user interface of consumer electronic appliances for the elderly. For this purpose, a digital clock was chosen with five different interface modes in this experiment. Forty elderly subjects (above 65 yrs) and forty middle-elderly subjects (45-64 yrs) participated in this study. Each subject had to operate three different tasks such as time setting, alarm time setting, and date setting. We investigated how problems encountered when performing these tasks, and collected data such as operation time, total number of input, and subjective estimation. The findings of this study indicated that …

Investigating The Nature Of Design Thinking., Kees Dorst

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Many of the problems we face in today’s society are extremely complicated; they tend to spans many different disciplines, to be ill-structured, and their solution requires a creative, solution focussed approach. In other words, many problems we face today are bearing an ever closer resemblance to design problems. This realisation has led to an extensive study into the possibilities of developing a ‘design methodology of the social sciences’, where fields such as ‘lawmaking’ and ‘the making of a curriculum ’, have been described in design-like terms, and supported by design methods [Heffen et al. 1999, Visscher-Voerman, 1999]). The solution of …

Design For Sustainable Consumption., Miles Park

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper examines current eco-design approaches that focus upon eco-efficiency strategies. It attempts to demonstrate how such strategies are failing to address the emergent issues of unsustainable consumption and are the cause of environmental ‘rebound effects’. This paper considers the importance of behavioural factors as a key to stemming unsustainable consumption. The transition from designing eco-efficient to eco-effective products and systems is considered. Design practice and methodologies are explored as a means to engage with these important issues. How do we engage designers and clients to go deeper and consider the cumulative context of product design and social/environmental issues? The …

Creating User Centred Designers., Andrée Woodcock

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The failure of practicing designers and engineers to encompass ergonomics issues in their practice has long been a source of frustration for both ergonomists and customers - ergonomists, because they know their discipline could inform and benefit the end product, and customers suffer the consequences of poor design. Although the relationship between ergonomics and design has been well explored, and has led to the development of various solutions - these have not had the major impact on design that was desired. This paper looks at a new approach, through education, that might lead to the creation of more user centred …

The Study Of Taiwan Aboriginal Culture On Product Design., Tyan-Yu Wu, Chi-Hsien Hsu, Rungtai Lin

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Taiwan aboriginal art and craft is one of the most beautiful and primitive cultures, which displays a strong characteristic within Taiwan art, especially in its primitive form and symbolic meaning. These characteristics have a potential to generate a unique product to enhance the significant localized culture, among Global market. However, the decline of Taiwan aboriginal cultures makes us rethink its perspective in design for the extension of aboriginal culture. The motive of this study attempts to extend the Taiwan aboriginal culture by adding cultural value into consumer products and, furthermore to promote its cultural identity in the global market.

Romanticism Reinforced: The Construction Of Nature Through 'Green' Advertising And The Implications For Ecodesign., Marie Sierra

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper makes a critical assessment of the construction of nature through advertising. Like any other subject, the complex and rich subject of nature can be portrayed metaphorically. Due to its complexity, the idea of nature is often depicted obliquely in advertising, rather than through direct pictorial representation. There is fertile ground for this approach in the advertising of home appliances – particularly appliances designed to be ‘green’, or what is referred to in design culture as ‘ecodesign’.

The Relationship Between Package Visual Design Of Green Products And Consumer Behavior - An Example Of Green Laundry Detergent Package., Chen-Fu (Daniel) Chen, Yian-Lin Ling

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This research explains the specific relationship between consumer buying behavior and the package visual design. This research involves a questionnaire survey of consumers through the package visual design of green products with the Eco-label in Taiwan. The laundry detergent product category has been selected for the sample. The related research issues, such as functions of product package, green package design, definitions of green products, and green consumption, are also discussed. This research has explained the influential factors, including both categories of aesthetic and environmental appeal factors, to the green package visual design of the laundry detergent, which may help designers …

Trial-And-Error-Based Innovation: Rapid Materialisation As Catalyser Of Perception And Communication In Design., Jan Capjon

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design theory of the 1970s tried to map generalised approaches to design action (Cross et al. 1984), an endeavour which seems to have more or less evaporated in postmodern contextualisation. Can some common ground for making still be sketched – or will a future ground of designing only imply diversification? In my doctoral thesis (Capjon 2004) I have tried to map an effective landscape of design action which is shared by all collaborating actors regardless of background and have called its metaphorical depiction the Plant of Emerging Materiality– or PoEM. Its development is based on the capabilities of Rapid Prototyping …

Embodied Interaction - Designing Beyond The Physical-Digital Divide., Pelle Ehn, Per Linde

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The physical and digital worlds are wide apart. Each has its own design professionals: product designers and human-computer interaction experts. However, as computers are becoming ubiquitous, embedded in our everyday objects and environments and embodied in the way we experience them in our everyday lives, this divide becomes problematic. This dilemma is accentuated by the parallel threat of demassification, the potential loss of material and social properties when artefacts become digital. In this paper we argue for embodied interaction as a useful stance for designing beyond this physical-digital divide. This term has been coined by Paul Dourish in the phenomenological …

The London Coffee Bar 'Problem' Of The 1950s - An Eclectic Design Challenge To The Universalism Of Modernism., Matthew Partington

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In his 1957 article, ‘Shoes, Hair and Coffee’, Toni del Renzio identified London coffee bars as one of the places where, ‘a real and genuine popular modern architecture is being created, as outstanding and as anonymous as the gipsy baroque of the fairground used to be. It is in undeniable opposition to the timid, dull and understated pretentiousness that does duty for modern English architecture.' This paper will compare this description of a ‘genuine popular modern architecture’ with other articles about coffee bars in the design and architecture journals of the mid nineteen fifties4.

Branding Your Product: Product Identity And Its Application In China., Chen Jie, Eric Wear

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper we introduce a new framework for categorising product identity strategies. While we have devised this as part of an ongoing study of the current competition among mobile handset producers in China, we anticipate this scheme may apply to other markets. Focusing on manufacturers who have previously operated without formal design strategies and in an environment in which design is itself an immature practice, our case studies are also very illuminating with regard to the general situation of consumer product design in China.

The Appropriateness Of Things., Norman Lawrence, Ian Montgomery

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses the concept of design appropriateness as a multisensory and multiperceptory experience. It presents examples and examines key issues related to the perception of design in controlled and free environments. It also comments upon the role of memory in perceived appropriateness.

Invisibility Of Design Research In Practice., Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Communities of practice that focus on research or professional practice within the same discipline are often distinct and can easily fail to intersect. Each forms its own discourse and protects specific territory. An example of such a separation is research and practice in design. With the growth of graduate programs and particularly Ph.D.s in design, it is reasonable to expect the development of research useful to design and expect an increase in sophisticated performance-in-practice based on research. Or is it? Varieties of research are not only based on different presuppositions, they also function in different ways. Research based on history …

The Legibility Of Chinese Characters In The Perspective Environment., Chiwu Huang

DRS Biennial Conference Series

How to present a large amount of information in a limited computer display space is always an important issue. One of the solutions is to present information three dimensionally. Perspective is one of the reasons that people can perceive things three dimensionally on a computer display. However, in a perspective background the legibility of Chinese characters might be affected. Therefore, this research aims to explore the legibility of Chinese characters in the computer perspective environment. The legibility test was used for the research. First, a perspective space was simulated on a computer screen. A few sets of Chinese characters were …