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General Strategic Knowledge Models And Their Interaction With Domain-Specific Knowledge In Design, V. Popovic

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This research concentrates on the modelling of general process knowledge that is understood to be represented as a common strategic knowledge relevant to the various design domains, such as product and information design. Its objective is to illustrate the connections between general knowledge and strategies and how they interact with the domain–specific design knowledge. The knowledge identification in this research is based on the study of designers' sketches generated during the early stage (conceptual stage) of the design process. The applications of general and goal–limited strategies are analysed and compared within the domain of product design and information design.The findings …

A Comparative Study Of Iconic Influences Amongst British And Canadian Design Students, P. A. Rodgers, M. Strickfaden

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design students encounter a wide variety of influences and inspiration during their education. Moreover, the knowledge and skills required and utilised whilst studying design encompasses both explicit and implicit knowledge, and iconic and canonic knowledge types. This paper explores, comparatively, the iconic influences amongst sets of British and Canadian undergraduate design students. Using naturalistic experimentation techniques, the study’s main objective is to investigate whether a student’s design influences, and subsequent artifact creation activities, are affected by their educational context, their economic situation, their gender or age, and their geographical conditions amongst others. With this in mind the study will seek …

A (X 4): Combining Ethnography, Scenario-Building, And Design To Explore User Experience, P. Rothstein

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In today’s marketplace, developing new user experiences significantly influences success. Like never before, it has become vital to connect with consumers in experiential ways. “Recognizing experiences as a distinct economic offering,” note Joseph Pine and James Gilmore (1999), authors of The Experience Economy, “provides the key to future economic growth.” This paper describes a (x 4), a new method for designing user experiences. Drawing from elements found in market research, ethnography and design, a (x 4) is an effective tool that features a unique emphasis on visual and narrative communication. The paper includes: • background information about the emergence of …

Putting It All Together: Bringing Interdisciplinary Research To The Practice Of Designing Interactive Learning Tools, B. Sadler Takach, J. Daniels, C. Varnhagen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Working within an interdisciplinary, collaborative context to bring research into design practice offers both challenges and opportunities in building strategic alliances for a common purpose, integrating methods of research, and transferring or translating the resulting knowledge into action. Integrating multiple methods requires an iterative, complementary approach to the design of research, characterised by the need for effective communicative strategies throughout the process. Two of the responsibilities inherent in applied research are to undertake useful research and to report it in ways that are accessible to people working in different disciplines, and usable in practice. We centre our discussion on three …

A Field Study Methodology Using Self-Photography Of Workplace Activities, E. Tamaru, K. Hasuike, M. Tozaki

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The design of a new tool or technology for a workplace should take into account the broad range of activities that go on in a given work environment. This paper describes an observation methodology in which the users -those who actually work in a given environment - photograph their own activities, acting as their own investigators. In this methodology, some visual tools are used to enhance communication in the design process. During follow-up interviews of the workplace activities between designers and workplace users, the self-photographs serve an important role as a medium to help designers understand how users function in …

Inter-Linkages In The Design Process: A Holistic View Towards Design Knowledge And Sketches, H-H. Tang, J. S. Gero

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper reveals the close connection between design knowledge and sketches in an attempt to propose a holistic view of design studies. Two sets of experimental protocol data were analyzed. We first observed the interaction between meaning-based design knowledge and sketches in our residential house design project. The protocol collected in a museum design was analyzed using design content-oriented coding scheme to show detailed linkages between perception-based and meaning-based knowledge and sketches. The results demonstrate a close link between design knowledge and sketches. The dichotomy of design knowledge was proposed to pinpoint the importance of design media, such as sketches …

Understanding Designing And Design Management Through Constituent Market Orientation And Constituent Orientation, B. Tellefsen, T. Love

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The paper builds on research undertaken in Norway and Australia in constituent market orientation and models of affective design cognition to develop a more coherent and integrated theory frame for modeling designing in organisations, particularly the increasing number of design organisations undertaking virtual multidisciplinary teamwork. Attempts to develop an integrated theory of the interactions between stakeholders have focused mainly on the properties of designed artifacts, the characteristics of the design problems and brief, or on the technical, social and communication processes. This has been less than fully satisfactory and resulted in a lack of adequate theoretical integration with underlying individual …

Design, Words And History, A. Tomes, P. Armstrong

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Every dominant movement in art has depended upon the development of an accompanying critical discourse. Using the writings of design critics and design journalists, this paper suggests that there are similar, albeit under-developed, discursive dimensions to the reception of innovative design. Critics, advertisers and commentators offer vocabularies of appreciation analogous to the critical discourses of artistic avant-gardes. These suggest the manner in which a design should be used or experienced, the nature of experiences that should follow and the discontents with earlier forms that inspired it. A major implication is that the lukewarm enthusiasm of the UK public for good …

Managing Architectural Analyses In A Collaborative Context, B. Tuncer, R. Stouffs, S. Sariyildiz

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The study of precedents plays an important role in design and design education. Architecture students prepare analyses of prominent precedents with respect to various criteria. Such design analyses are represented and communicated through abstractions. Collections of these abstractions are stored, related, managed, and presented in digital environments. Such web-based environments can serve as an extensible library of design precedent analyses. The use of an extensive library by a collection of students requires a flexible and extensible information model for relating and integrating the various contributions. We propose a methodology that establishes an information model for digital architectural analysis environments. This …

Design Rationale And Information Management In The Construction Domain: The Outcome Of The Ads Project And Suggestions For Future Research, C. Cerulli, C. Peng, B. Lawson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper the development and the outcome of the completed EPSRC funded ADS (Project Advanced Design Support for the Construction Design Process) will be presented. The focus of the project was mainly on managing design information without intruding too much on the design process. The ADS prototype can facilitate a change towards a more collaborative process in construction design by improving the effectiveness of decision-making throughout the project and to provide clients with the facility to relate design outcomes to design briefs across the whole building life cycle. Finally some of the emerging research strands generated by this piece …

Using Visual Communication Resource Shifts To Inform Cmc Design, C.-D. Chen, S. A. R. Scrivener, A. Woodcock

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Talking about and with things is characteristic of design communication. In this paper we are concerned with how to design computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems that support such talk between designers separated by distance. We describe a design method based on Scrivener’s (2002) postulate that users in a communication environment satisfy communication purpose by selecting, from the resources available to them, that most appropriate for communication purpose. A method for enhancing the overall utility of a given CMC environment is described where analysis of the shifts between resources reveals insight into their relative strengths and weaknesses which is then used to …

Human Factors Considerations In Human-Webpad Interaction – A Discussion On Color Application, C-H. Chen, Y-T. Chen, B-C. Chiou

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of color in human-Webpad interaction based on a model of human factors. Color is a prominent and prevailing visual stimulus encountered by humans daily. It affects how humans process information perceptually and cognitively. Four important design issues pertaining to the model of human factors, i.e., issues concerning humans, Webpad technology, user interface, and environment, are discussed in this paper. The authors hope that this discussion can be utilized to improve the applications of color in Webpad user interface design and, at the same time, point us towards the right direction …

Contract Research In Design, A. Crabbe

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The present paper reconsiders some of the activities that properly constitute design research, by focusing on case studies of contract research carried out by the Design Contract Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University. A review of recent UK papers seeking to define the nature of design research suggests that a consensus is still some way off. Contract research, which is a professional research service undertaken for commissioning clients, poses further questions again, since a commercial service may amount to little more than jobbing work. The aims of this paper are to identify the characteristics of contract research in design through …

The Use Of The Internet By Architectural Practices In The Uk, M. Fedeski, B. Sidawi

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Since its evolution in 1962, the Internet has provided new services for people and enriched their life and knowledge. Earlier research has shown that the architectural profession in the UK has lagged behind other businesses in adopting and using new technologies and is only slowly absorbing the new innovations brought by the Internet. This lag coincides with a slip in the architect's lead role in the design team. The research conducted at Cardiff University aims to examine how architectural practices are interacting with the Internet and to investigate any problems they are having in its use. Architectural practices in the …

Theory Construction In Design Research. Criteria, Approaches, And Methods., K. Friedman

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design involves creating something new or transforming a less desirable situation to a preferred situation. To do this, designers must know how things work and why. Understanding how things work and why requires explanation, and it sometimes requires prediction. To explain and predict, we must construct and test theories. Theories are propositions or sets of propositions that allow us to analyze or explain subjects. Some theories are complex and sophisticated. Others are simple. Theory can be described in many ways. In its most basic form, a theory is a model. It is an illustration describing how something works by showing …

Iwu Faculty Member Receives 15th Ascap Award For Compositions, Anna Deters

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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September 5, 2002, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Spartan Daily, September 4, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 4

Exponent, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2002-09-04, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2002

No abstract provided.

09/04/2002 - Eiu Remembers Sep 11.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2002

No abstract provided.

The Anchor, Volume 116.02: September 4, 2002, Hope College

The Anchor: 2002

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Entry Deadline For Um Homecoming Parade Looms, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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September 4, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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The Bg News September 4, 2002, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 4, 2002. Volume 91-Issue 8.

Wmur Poll - First Cd Race Wide Open 9/04/2002, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

The race for the Republican nomination for Congress from New Hampshire’s First District is wide open with none of the eight candidates able to pull away from the field. The favorites in the other Congressional primary races are winning easily. Election: 2002

Panther- September 2002 - Vol. Lxxx, No.1, Prairie View A&M University

PV Panther Newspapers

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Media Advisory, Marty Eich

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Pioneer In Diversity Training Speaks At Illinois Wesleyan, Jeff Hanna

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• West Nile Virus Reaches Georgia
• Opinions
• Sports
• Classifieds

Iwu Student Awarded Washington Semester Prize For Outstanding Paper, Anna Deters

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.