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A New Look At Design Thinking: Research In Progress, Rob Cowdroy, Michael Ostwald, Anthony Williams

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper reports on work in progress in a programme of highly innovative cross-disciplinary collaborative research into design thinking. This research programme departs from current reductivist theoretical approaches to design including computational and neuroscience models; instead the programme uses empirical methods from behavioural and cognitive psychology, social anthropology and neuropsychology to study elite designers at work. Designers are usually characterised as creative individuals who work alone and autonomously, and design education is almost universally oriented accordingly. In practice, however, designers also typically work in two other key environments: in design teams and in interaction with computers in CAD environments. Pilot …

Expanding The Boundaries Of Form Theory Developing The Model Evolution Of Form, C Akner. Koler

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The design research community is beginning to recognize the organizing capacity of form as a scientific method of its own right. The aim of this study was to a) develop a pedagogically framed case study method that applied a participatory action research approach and b) create a 3-D form model bridging geometric- to organic structures. A 10-step-concept-translation-form method was developed which resulted in a “Evolution of form” model with two axes: The first horizontal axis presents a sequence of geometrically derived forms that gradually take on organic qualities of convexities and concavities. The second axis expands the model in a …

What It Takes To Design In The Virtual World, Anthony Williams, Willy Sher, Tom Bellamy, Rod Gameson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The operational differences which result from using different electronic communication media and its impact on generic design skills have been the basis for the research reported in this paper. The outcome of this research is the development and mapping of generic skills profiles for virtual design teams and the designers who work in them. The research findings also identify changes in generic skills profiles between the traditional mode of team design as well as the different operational states of current and future ICT environments. This paper examines design team activities, processes and skills occurring in co-located environments and links these …

Studying Design Engineers Use Of Information Systems: Which Variables To Control For?, J. Restrepo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Studying information usage by design engineers involves considering technical, social, cognitive and volitional factors. This makes it challenging, especially for researchers without a cognitive psychology background. This paper presents a summary of key findings in researching information use and processing in design, discusses important issues on the selection of a research strategy and sums up the important variables that need to be controlled for.

Necessary, Unnecessary And Sufficient Conditions, M.A.R. Biggs

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper claims that whether a work is classified as research is a matter of judgement. This judgement is made by the audience and is evidenced by a change in their practice and by the attribution of that change to the researcher’s work through referencing and the acknowledgement of intellectual property. The contribution made by this paper is to identify that there are three necessary and sufficient conditions for such a judgement. These are that it be appropriately disseminated, contextualised, and have consequential originality. To achieve these conditions it is desirable, but neither necessary nor sufficient for the researcher to …

Context-Sensitive Visualization For User-Centered Information System And Product Design, E. C. Jung, K. Sato

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Pervasive computing technology enables information systems to deliver their information services through diverse interactive products distributed across our activity space. For effectiveness and quality of information delivered to enhance user experiences, it is critical to shape information for delivery with appropriate contents, resolution, format, and timing according to user’s context changes. The concept of CSV (Context-Sensitive Visualization) has been proposed as a middleware for information systems and products development to deliver domain and system data to a user in context-sensitive way. Through the authors’ previous research, context has been defined as a set of user’s mental models activated by trigger …

Design Leads Us Where Exactly? Leading By Design At Rich Mix, A New Cultural Venture In London, Lucy Kimbell

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge about design by reflecting on an action research project where the author tested ideas explored in recent literature, including those concerning design leadership (the opportunity and necessity for designers to shape conversations about strategy; the ability of designers to frame unframed problems in challenging contexts); design thinking (the idea that design problems are indeterminate and that there are ‘designerly’ ways of knowing, thinking and acting); and that design-led approaches can help produce engaging information and communication technologies. These ideas were used to respond to an opportunity in which design played …

Integrated Descriptive Interactivity For Complex Collections (Idi), Daniel Pinkas, Jean-Louis Boissier, Sidonie Carrillat, Annelore Schneider, Pius Zoll

DRS Biennial Conference Series

IDI (Integrated Descripttive Interactivity for Complex Collections) is a media design research project currently conducted at the Haute école d’arts appliqués, Geneva (HEAA). IDI explores the descriptive potential of interactive video and seeks to integrate video-interactivity into a comprehensive descriptive and documentary approach to complex collections. An integrated descriptive interactivity aims at providing an intuitive account of the user’s relations to the objects or elements of a complex collection. We must emphasize that our project goes well beyond a simple combination of existing media; it seeks a new documentary modality which allows the user to browse through a collection not …

The Daily Egyptian, October 31, 2006, Daily Egyptian Staff

October 2006

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, October 31, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 37

The Bates Student - Volume 136 Number 06 - October 31, 2006, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 031, Number 14, October 31, 2006, Grand Valley State University

2006-2007, Volume 31

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Information Technology Takes Steps To Increase Network Performance At Um, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, October 31, 2006, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

No abstract provided.

10-31-2006 Digital Storytelling Focus Of Swosu Meeting, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2006

Weatherford High School students will present their digital storytelling projects at the next Computer Club meeting at Southwestern Oklahoma State University this Thursday, November 2, on the Weatherford campus.

Expert Available To Discuss Religious Voters And The Mid-Term Elections, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Seni Kulinari, Kekuasaan, Dan Multikulturalisme Dalam Master Cooking Boy/ The Real Master Cooking Boy Karya Etsushi Ogawa, Lilawati Kurnia

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This essay examines manga, the japanese comic Master Cooking Boy" and inquires what the manga offers to the reader beside being a popular reading. This essay reviews the history of manga and its function in the Japanese culture. The paper unravels the theories of cultural studies such as hegemony and multiculturalism in the analyse of this manga. This paper discusses the wider horizon of manga as a field of hegemony discourse and multiculturalism. It opens the possibilities to analyse manga in a different perspective and shows how ideology can operates in the popular literature.

Mustang Daily, October 31, 2006

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Daily Eastern News: October 31, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Minutes 10/31/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, October 31, 2006, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The October 31, 2006, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Um Class To Spend Day In Wheelchairs, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Membaca Sketsa Estetika Kehidupan, Irmayanti M. Budianto

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.

October 31, 2006, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Recall And Recognition Of Brand-Modified Product Placement In Movies, Caitlin Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, the product placement industry has seen a significant boom. The growth of product placement continues as media seeks funding and branded products vie for increased audience attention. Because of the increased product placement, there are many studies that examine the attitudes towards product placement, the experiences and interpretations of brands post-product placement, the effects of product placement, and memory of product placement. However, while product placement is a popular trend, there are occasions when branded products are altered in movies and television (this thesis refers to the altered products as “brand-modified products”). Little, if any, research has …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Montana Kaimin, October 31, 2006, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula. Page 7 is missing.

Club Hosts Iraq War Documentary Screening Friday At Cal Poly, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Arbiter, October 30, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Bard Observer (October 30, 2006), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

No abstract provided.