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Project MIECO (Members only )
Cipher, Mak // 2015
Shortage of energy from natural resources is happening globally. And here in Hong Kong, no more fuel can be generated locally start from 2017 per agreement with Government. And now the Government is ...
QUANTIFICATION OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGNS USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING
Piacenza, Joseph R; Fields, John J; Hoyle, Christopher; Tumer, Irem Y // 2015
This paper presents an experimental design framework for quantifying Indoor Environmental Quality in sustainable buildings, by estimating causal relations between design attributes, and both the ...
REAL-TIME PRODUCT RECOVERY DECISION MAKING ALGORITHM FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Kanchanasri, Passaporn; Moon, Seung Ki; Ng, Gary Ka Lai // 2015
Supporting long term benefits towards our society, a product recovery becomes a good alternative for handling End-of-Life (EOL) products. Instead of disposing all used products and producing waste, ...
Ressourceneffizientes Produktdesign durch PLM-integrierte Generierung und Auswahl von Produktvarianten (Members only )
Buchert, Tom; Kim, Marcus; Graf, Roberta; Ko, Nathanael; Lindow, Kai; Stark, Rainer // 2015
The development of sustainable and resource-efficient products requires
new forms of support which provides design engineers with transparency on
the results of their decisions and at the same time ...
RETHINKING OPERATING MODELS FOR INTANGIBLE SERVICES : FROM A MECHANISTIC STRUCTURE TO A SUSTAINABLE MODEL
Minzoni, Angela; Mounoud, Eleonore // 2015
This paper presents a co-design process in which operations managers and researchers engage in designing within the aim of radically innovate the operations management thinking focusing on the ...
RISK AND INNOVATION BALANCE IN CROWDFUNDING NEW PRODUCTS
Song, Chaoyang; Luo, Jianxi; Hoelttae-Otto, Katja; Seering, Warren; Otto, Kevin // 2015
Many have considered that innovation through new and small companies is a vital driver for sustainable economic growth. Recent growth in Web 2.0 demands small companies to further incorporate risk ...
SAND CASTING ON THE BEACH - INTRODUCING TRADITIONAL MAKING SKILLS, MATERIALS AND PROCESS THROUGH PLAY AND EXPERIMENTATION
Stoltenberg, Einar; Firth, Richard // 2015
Within the higher education (HE) product design field, many researchers stress the importance for students to recognise and value the relationship between practical 3D object-making experience, and ...
Service Design for the“street food” in Shanghai (Members only )
GAO, Bo // 2015
The topics of “ecological urbanism”, broadly discussed recently, are both global and local challenges encountered in various transcultural areas around the world, with no exceptions in Shanghai as ...
Shigeru Ban’s Humanitarian Architecture (Members only )
Naskova, Julija // 2015
This century was marked by a large scale human displacement due to wars and natural disasters. In many cases, the world community responded with emergency aid and temporary shelter construction. Only ...
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDNESS AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR DESIGN SUPPORT
Link, Sandra; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Denz, Naemi // 2015
Environmental soundness and resource efficiency are important issues that should both be taken into account when engaging with sustainability. In recent years, several tools to assist designers to do ...
SLOW FASHION IN THE SPORTS APPAREL INDUSTRY
Sřderlund, Marte; Berg, Arild // 2015
Overconsumption of natural resources is a vicious circle as we harvest more from nature than it can replace at its natural pace. This overconsumption is a result of the consumer society’s insatiable ...
SOCIO-TECHNICAL DESIGN FOR RESILIENCE: A CASE STUDY OF DESIGNING COLLABORATIVE SERVICES FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
Baek, Joon Sang // 2015
This paper presents selected findings from a doctoral study on how design could be used to construct a resilient community. It describes a framework for diagnosing the resilience of people s social ...
STAKEHOLDER CENTRED APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: A CASE STUDY OF CO-DESIGNING COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES FOR LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Pahk, Yoonyee; Baek, JoonSang // 2015
The demand for creating shared values has emerged as a new direction in a society in which the mutual prosperity of all stakeholders is often undermined and sacrificed for the benefit of a few. For a ...
STUDY OF THE EFFICIENCY OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS THROUGH COMBINED VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE, PLM AND SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
Doumit, Nancy; Fortin, Clément; Huet, Gregory // 2015
With globalization and increasing product complexity, manufacturing industries are experiencing increased user demands to incorporate informal exchange mechanisms especially when it coMES to ...
SUBSTITUTING CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING FOR SUSTAINABLE, NEAR NET SHAPE GROWN COMPONENTS
Löwer, Manuel; Beger, Anna-Lena; Feldhusen, Jörg; Wormit, Alexandra; Prell, Jürgen; Usadel, Björn; Seiler, Thomas-Benjamin; Kämpfer, Christoph; Hollert, Henner; Moser, Franziska; Trautz, Martin // 2015
Society s demand for ecologically produced and sustainably operable goods is a key driver to substitute conventional substances such as metals or plastics. Most of today s eco-design approaches are ...
SUSTAINABILITY OF MODULAR PRODUCT FAMILIES
Bahns, Tammo; Beckmann, Gregor; Gebhardt, Nicolas; Krause, Dieter // 2015
A global customer base demanding highly individual products often forces companies to offer a wide range of products. Commonality within modular product families allows great product variety through ...
SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUONS
Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Hesamedin; Collado-Ruiz, Daniel // 2015
Life Cycle Assessment is one of the most popular environmental assessment tools. However, due to its comparative nature, assessing a newly developed product relies on having benchmark information. ...
TASK-BASED LCA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF MULTIPLE HETEROGENOUS SYSTEMS
Quan, Ning; Kim, Harrison; Knight, Erica; Nelson, Jeffrey; Finamore, Peter // 2015
Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) is the framework for assessing the environmental impact of a product over its entire lifecycle. There have been numerous LCIA studies in the past conducted on ...
THE BUSINESS MODEL, A TOOL FOR TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
Bisiaux, Justine; Gidel, Thierry; Huet, Frédéric; Millet, Dominique // 2015
To be consistent with sustainable innovation, production and consumption evolution, business model design needs to be reconsidered to jointly redefine the value proposition, the productive ...
THE DESIGN AND DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION: THE BRAZILIAN CASE OF THE "ECOLOGICAL NETWORK"
Xavier, Amanda Fernandes; Naveiro, Ricardo Manfredi; Aoussat, Améziane; Mello, Carlos Henrique Pereira // 2015
The design has been receiving a increasing importance due to the market complexity and environmental unsustainability concerns, being it a strategic tool for positioning of sustainable products and ...
THE IDEALITY "WHAT" MODEL FOR PRODUCT DESIGN
Weiss, Alon; Avital, Iko; Helfman Cohen, Yael; Kumar Das, Amarendra; Mazor, Gedalya // 2015
This article presents an innovative design model for both designers and engineers that can serve as a
crucial compass during the formulation of a Product Design brief. The model was developed in ...
THE USE OF MULTISENSORY FEEDBACK TO MAKE USERS BEHAVE IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY
Graziosi, Serena; Ferrise, Francesco; Costanzi, Alessandro Achille Maria; Bordegoni, Monica // 2015
The paper proposes an alternative approach to well-known feedback solutions, such as visual displays or warning sound messages, to make users perceptually aware of the energy consumption occurring ...
USING BIOLOGY AS A MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY: INSIGHTS FOR ECODESIGN AND BIOINSPIRED DESIGN PRACTITIONERS
O'Rourke, Julia; Seepersad, Carolyn Conner // 2015
Numerous authors in the bioinspired design and ecodesign research communities conceive of biology as a model for sustainability and use biological systems, organisms, and features as analogies when ...
WELL BEING AS A CRITERIA FOR PRODUCT DESIGN
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard // 2015
Historically, Product Designers have concerned themselves with manufactured objects through negotiated briefs for clients either as external consultants or in-house designers. Within this remit ...
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.