Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"creative design"”.
-
Sustainable Polymers Through Creative Design
Plastics have changed the world of materials due to their high durability, low price, low density, and ease of processing. Unfortunately, the majority of plastic goods produced are discarded instead of recycled, leading to a massive accumulation of plastic waste in landfills and natural habitats. …
-
Creative design applied on tape recorder
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1956
-
Creative Design Using Collaborative Interactive Genetic Algorithms
I propose a computational model of creative design based on collaborative interactive genetic algorithms. My model enhances creativity in the conceptual design phase by allowing designers to guide genetic algorithms in order to breed new design ideas quickly, and by supporting team collaboration …
-
MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a schema for creative design
"MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a Schema for Creative Design" formulates a model for creative thought and examines its impact when applied to the making of art. Use of the Schema as a system of design has propelled my work from sculpture to multimedia performance, specifically under computer control. …
-
Older people as equal partners in the creative design of digital devices
… involving older people as equal partners in the creative design of digital devices for an ageing population. In exploring this topic, I have carried out two preliminary studies, a pilot study and a major empirical study. Firstly, I invited three groups of people, including very old people, active …
-
Distributed thinking across mind and media: creative design in traditional tools and generative design
Creative design is a central driver for innovation success, as design decisions fundamentally shape downstream performance and cost of products. Visual thinking, the iterative reasoning across internal and external visual representations, is the engine for creative design across engineering, …
-
Theory and Methodology for Forming Creative Design Teams in a Globally Distributed and Culturally Diverse Environment
… have investigated psychological factors for design creativity and effective global collaboration; however, few have addressed these factors concurrently. The focus of this dissertation is therefore on the formation of creative design teams in a globally distributed and culturally diverse …
-
Enhancing creative design competencies through integrated learning experiences: vocational and professional education and training in Hong Kong
… developed multiple roles as a teacher, mentor, designer, administrator and researcher, to keep abreast of both academia and the industry. My professional practice in design education and leadership skills has been shaped by various kinds of scholarly activities in response to the changing …
-
ReflectionSpace: an interactive visualization tool for supporting reflection-on-action in design
Designers move forward by looking back at past experiences. Reflection is a central activity of creative design which allows designers to develop new insight into their designs, generate alternative solutions, and reframe the problem. Researchers have emphasized the positive impact of reflection on …
-
The Music Man : Costume Design and the Use of Gender Coding
<p>This Thesis is a combination research and creative design thesis. It documents the creative process of costume design and how it relates to gender coding for the Prairie Repertory Theatre's 2001 production of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man. This thesis contains background information on gender …
-
IDDAP -- Interactive computer assistance for creative digital design
"A new computer-aided design program to assist in the initial phases of logical design is described. The program, intended for use via an on-line remote terminal, will allow the designer to study and experiment with design alternatives during the initial creative design phases. An ALGOL-like …
-
Formalization, data abstraction, and communication
… the development of form and its meaning in the design process. Since Shape Grammar provides a way of representing form and its meaning as sets of mathematical terms, which are shapes and the different algebra, Shape Grammar has been anticipated for developing an architect's design idea with a …
-
High speed air pneumatic wind shield wiping design
In this creative design process a number of designs were constructed, implemented and tested in order to assess the feasibility of using high speed to create a curtain to repel the rain from the automobile windshield instead of using the traditional wiper blades. The primary two methods tested used …
-
Envisioning sketch recognition : a local feature based approach to recognizing informal sketches
… sketches are an important part of the early design process and are an important aspect of creative design. They are used in many fields including electrical engineering, software engineering and web design. Recognizing shapes in these sketches is a challenging task due to the imprecision with …
-
Playing on the tracks
… from drawings to procedural descriptions of design. As such, computation can help architects to relate creative design to a process of manufacturing and assembly. In order to accommodate this, it is necessary to develop a new vocabulary for describing compositional rules which relies on an …
-
Rulebuilding : exploring design worlds through end-user programming
… from drawings to procedural descriptions of design. As such, computation can help architects to relate creative design to a process of manufacturing and assembly. In order to accommodate this, it is necessary to develop a new vocabulary for describing compositional rules which relies on an …
-
Tell Me Where To Hide My Mouth
… poems in each section are separated by my own creative design relative to four central themes revolving around the redemptive journey: love; loss and sacrifice; social consciousness, and confessional history telling through the reflection of my relationship to the physical landscape. Although …
-
Shape exploration in product design: assisting transformation in pictorial representations
… forms a key technique for professional designers in the generation and exploration of product shape. It allows ideas of shape to be externalised and communicated, but more importantly, sketched pictorial representations can operate to assist designers' creative thinking. While computer …
-
Extending yield-stress fluid paradigms
… fluid into a useful methodology for the design of rheologically complex materials; the second is based on the discrepancy in the behavior in extension of model yield-stress fluids versus application-relevant materials. Through implementation of material design principles of selection and …
Page 1 of 4