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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Critical design"”.
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Contextualising Critical Design: Towards a Taxonomy of Critical Practice in Product Design
This study focuses on critical design practice. The research challenges the colloquial understanding of ‘critical design.’ It problematises, defines and reassesses the concept of ‘critical design’ situating it among other forms of critical design practice. The research reviews the field of activity …
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Contextualising critical design: towards a taxonomy of critical practice in product design
This study focuses on critical design practice. The research challenges the colloquial understanding of ‘critical design.’ It problamatises, defines and reassesses the concept of ‘critical design’ situating it among other forms of critical design practice.
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Process developments and critical design attributes in buffer systems for the biopharmaceutical industry
… in operational bottlenecks, inflexible facility designs, and elevated capital and operating expenditure. This work develops process improvements and identifies critical design attributes to enhance operational efficiency, sustainability, and flexibility. A comprehensive assessment of the current …
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Determining critical design elements that bridge virtual and physical learning about the Mackenzie River
… River. Using the process of Human-Centred Design as a theoretical framework, I interviewed ten NWT teachers as potential end users of an online resource for learning about the Mackenzie River. The data from the teacher interviews was used to create a list of design criteria for a …
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Investigating children’s perspective taking and normative frames of social understanding: A critical design ethnographic study of teacher-led dialogue around stories in early years’ classrooms
… On the whole, this project extends Educational Design Research and Design Ethnography, providing a model for how educational specialists, researchers, or advisors can support teachers to play a more active and reflective role in children’s developing social reasoning.
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Bits at the Backline: Comedy and Service-Learning in the Age of Pandemic
… Our methods and approach borrow heavily from “Critical design ethnography” as defined by Barab, Thomas, Dodge, Squire and Newell. Critical design ethnography sits at the intersection of participatory action research, critical ethnography and socially responsive instructional design (Barab et …
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Allocentric Design: Critical Practice in the Age of Radical Technological and Environmental Change
… scholars working in the emergent field of critical design studies have argued against this framework as a relic of the anthropocentric past, lying at the very heart of the contemporary environmental crisis. If many ‘AI ethicists’ based in the Global North seek to establish a universal …
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Nonlinear Interfacial Waves in Inviscid Gas-Liquid Flows
… regime transitions as well as their effect in critical design parameters.
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Design of semi-active variable impedance materials using field-responsive fluids
In this thesis, I explored the design of a thin variable impedance material using electrorheological (ER) fluid that is intended to be worn by humans. To determine the critical design parameters of this material, the shear response of a sandwich of electrodes separated by ER fluid and several …
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Design as criticism: methods for a critical graphic design practice
… research is the result of an interest in graphic design as a specific critical activity. Existing in the context of the 2008 financial and subsequent political crisis, both this thesis and my work are situated in an expaded field of graphic design. This research examines the emergence of the terms …
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Architecture and the hypermachine: The "augmented" studio in architectural education
… concentrates on the implications of the ADS on critical design issues which need to be addressed in order to study the possibilities of a revised pedagogy (if necessary) for the Design Center. The work studies the implications of the ADS on design education, needs, the design-machine interface, …
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Computer-aided design and optimization of dc/dc power converters
… weight, and volume. This thesis investigates the design and optimization of dc/dc converters for dual-voltage automotive electrical system. A prototype dc/dc converter is developed and experimental evaluated, and is used to identify a number of tradeoffs and critical design issues. Based on this …
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Multimodal Robot Systems and Learning
In this work we broadly explore the engineering design and system analysis of a multimodal, robotic environment. We first give background on why this type of system is unique, describing the different approach we take to sensing, dynamics, and control. We then delve into the robot itself, and …
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Designing for Reflection: Utilizing slow technology to create tangible interactive designs for reducing technostress
… from these interactions. Using the lens of critical design, this thesis explores this concept of technology induced stress and promotes reflection, personal growth and awareness through three different design research methods. It further builds on the topic of slow technology which unfolds …
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A Data Clustering Approach to Support Modular Product Family Design
… process and relatively new in engineering design. Product families and platforms can offer a multitude of benefits when applied successfully such as economies of scale from producing larger volumes of the same modules, lower design costs from not having to redesign similar subsystems, and …
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Electroforming of personalized miniature metal parts using additively manufactured molds
… The methodology encompasses standardized mold design, experimental procedures for mold development and electroforming, and a simulation model for visualizing and predicting the deposition process. The study provides critical design considerations and guidelines for electroforming within …
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Design and Analysis of an Adaptive Asynchronous System Architecture for Energy Efficiency
<p>Power has become a critical design parameter for digital CMOS integrated circuits. With performance still garnering much concern, a central idea has emerged: minimizing power consumption while maintaining performance. The use of dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) with parallelism has shown to be an …
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Exploring Selfhood in an Era of Computational Optimization
… bring these things to the fore, asking: How can design unsettle the ideal of computational self-optimization upheld by neoliberalism? And, where does self-optimization begin to negatively impact perceptions of the self? Through critical design praxis, involving the construction of a parodic …
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A critical artefact methodology : using provocative conceptual designs to foster human-centred innovation.
… a rationale for using provocative conceptual designs to foster the innovation of human-centred product ideas -a `critical artefact methodology'.</p> <p>This research employed similar tactics to Action Research (Swann 2002): cycles of action (using critical artefact methods in design projects) …
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Automatic Design Space Exploration of Fault-tolerant Embedded Systems Architectures
Embedded Systems may have competing design objectives, such as to maximize the reliability, increase the functional safety, minimize the product cost, and minimize the energy consumption. The architectures must be therefore configured to meet varied requirements and multiple design objectives. In …
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