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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Design attributes"”.
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Environmental sentience of residential end-users towards design attributes.
… felicitously reflected from their preference on design attributes. Without the knowledge of the environmental sentience and the preference of end-users on the design attributes there would be likely a situation of mismatch between end-users and property developers on design provisions. Under the …
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Product design attributes and consumer preferences in the local furniture market
… ontological method to investigate the product design preferences of first- and second-time furniture buyers. A quantitative survey was administered locally to collect primary data, which encompassed scales to judge aesthetics, functionality, and the social component of furniture choices. The …
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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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Spectral attenuation and wearability of circumaural hearing protectors as influenced by design attributes and work-related activity
… in-field effectiveness, including the physical design and "wearability" of the protector. Wearability, a highly subjective aspect which encompasses such characteristics as user comfort, ease of use, and acceptability, directly affects performance by influencing the regularity of use and the …
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A structured demographic evaluation approach for interactive technologies based on the identification of high impact usability factors
… and selling products conveniently. Website design is very important in achieving business success by attracting more customers. A visually appealing site with trustworthy content, which is easy to navigate will produce a sense of trust with the least irritation. In this study, we examine the …
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THE INFLUENCE OF GAME DESIGN ON THE COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS: A CROSS-CASE STUDY OF MULTI-PLAYER COLLABORATIVE GAMEPLAY ANALYSIS
… study examines the relationships between game design attributes and collaborative problem solving process in the context of multi-player video games. The following game design attributes: sensory stimuli elements, level of challenge, and presentation of game goals and rules were examined to …
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Dynamically adapting design and usability in consumer technology products to technology and market life-cycles : a case study of smartphones
Design-driven business strategy has received a lot of attention in recent times, with Apple frequently standing out as an exemplar of the success of such a strategy. Most of the existing literature, while emphasizing the importance of design for market success, takes a fairly static view of design. …
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The function, design and distribution of New Zealand adzes
… of this thesis was to understand the function, design and distribution of New Zealand adzes, aspects little studied in Polynesia as a whole. Methodology involved functional and manufacturing replication experiments and comparisons of these results with statistics derived from the analysis of …
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Designing the lean enterprise performance measurement system
The research contained in this thesis explores design attributes of the enterprise performance measurement system required for the transformation to the lean enterprise and its management. Arguments are made from the literature that successful deployment of the lean practices, across three …
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Public perception of alternative water sources and water usage : a case study of desalination and recycled Water facilities
… as a quantitative method to determine which design attributes make alternative water sources, specifically desalination and recycled water facilities, more appealing to communities. An online survey was taken by 306 respondents in California, Florida, and Texas. Respondents were analyzed on …
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School Web Sites within the Educational Marketplace: A Case Study Investigating the Parents as Engaged Consumer-Users
… public face of education; those that are well-designed and multi-featured can enhance a district's public image and create the perception of excellence and competence. This case study explores how one suburban, K-8 school district approaches web site development, specifically, the process by …
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The Making of U.S. Monetary Policy: A Linguistic Analysis of FOMC Transcripts
… appointment; a difference-in-differences design attributes roughly 0.6–0.8 percentage-point gains in women’s speaking share to her leadership. Validating the textual measure against individualized behavior, higher hawkishness robustly predicts tighter discount-rate recommendations (a …
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Contribution to web-based conjoint analysis for market research
… relative utility of each of several product design attributes. We first overview conjoint analysis and the online market research industry in general, so see how the use of the internet for this purpose can reduce the cost of these analyses in more than an order of magnitude due to a better …
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Analysis of civil aircraft propulsors with boundary layer ingestion
… strategies for fan turbomachinery conceptual design, for a boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsion system for advanced civil transport aircraft. For the former, configuration performance analysis shows BLI yields a reduction in mechanical power required to propel a given aircraft. For the …
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An investigation of preferences for product appearance : a case study of residential solar panels
… The goal of this research was to determine the design attributes that make a solar panel more visually appealing, and to understand how different visual representations may reveal consumer preference differently. Approximately 200 survey respondents were shown two kinds of images of solar …
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A combined classification and queuing system optimization approach for enhanced battery system maintainability
… of several critical maintenance plan design attributes for battery systems. Together, the approach seeks to simultaneously enhance both aspects of maintainability (inherent reliability and cost-effectiveness) for battery systems, with the goal of decreasing total lifecycle cost and …
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Children's acting senses in place-making: mapping and analysing children's reflective individual and collective sensepointscapes in a primary school playground renewal co-design project with architecture students.
… also a challenge, not just for children but also design professionals and the general public more broadly. This thesis represents an in-depth enquiry into how children, aged between 7 to 12 years, viewed and interpreted some design proposals for their school play area. These proposals had been …
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Architecture value mapping: using fuzzy cognitive maps as a reasoning mechanism for multi-criteria conceptual design evaluation
"The conceptual design phase is the most critical phase in the systems engineering life cycle. The design concept chosen during this phase determines the structure and behavior of the system, and consequently, its ability to fulfill its intended function. A good conceptual design is the first step …
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The tools we use : a study of user preferences for sketches, prototypes, and CAD models and the influence on design outcome
During a product design and development process, design teams use a variety of tools to generate and represent multiple design options before they eventually arrive at a singular design solution. Studying how these tools can influence the design outcome has the potential to enable designers to …
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Development of an instrument for accessing quality of a Convention and Visitors Bureau Web site
… web sites and CVB web sites' content items and design attributes that are most important as perceived by meeting planners. In addition, this study developed a valid instrument for measuring the quality of CVB web sites, as perceived by meeting planners. Instrument development was based the …
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