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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"design ideas"”.
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Embodied Virtual Reality: The Impacts of Human-Nature Connection During Engineering Design
The engineering design process can underutilize nature-based solutions during infrastructure development. Instances of nature within the built environment are reflections of the human-nature connection, which may alter how designers ideate solutions to a given design task, especially through …
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The use of three-dimensional computer-generated models for design presentations: implications for kitchen showroom displays
Computers are being used in interior design for space planning, drafting, and modeling. Advances in technology have made it possible to create graphic renderings and animations which enable designers and clients to “walk through” the designed space long before its construction. In kitchen showrooms …
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Building an electronic drafting table for sketch recognition
Sketch recognition as developed by the CSAIL Design Rationale Group allows a designer to sketch out and test design ideas without the need for complicated CAD programs. An electronic drafting table is required to capture large designs. The design of the electronic drafting table in this thesis uses …
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Dynamic Data Extraction and Data Visualization with Application to the Kentucky Mesonet
… analysis. We present some concepts and design ideas regarding dynamic data storage and extraction by making use of open-source computing and mapping technologies. We implemented our methods to the Kentucky Mesonet automated weather mapping workflow. The main components of the work flow …
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Beyond models digital tools for urban design as mechanisms for better planning practices
… that affect the potential of computational urban design tools as instruments to support the implementation of better urban design practices through more informed and collaborative urban development processes. Contemporary computational tools impact the inception of design ideas; evaluate design …
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A Web-based User Experience Testing Environment for Small Design Firms
Many design firms within fast-paced environment would easily ignore the importance of user-centered design mainly because of their limit of time and access to users. This thesis would try to propose a new way of finding right user sample groups and establish a framework that enable designers to …
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Bio-inspired collective analog computation
… a prototype system that visualizes fundamental design ideas and techniques for building a collective analog computation system. Next, I build a cell-inspired analog circuit system which efficiently models bacterial genetic circuits in a cell, which can provide a powerful modeling and simulation …
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Supporting example-based ideation and assessment practices in engineering design
… examples have become the cornerstone of the design process. In essence, designers are no longer developing ideas from scratch, but instead designing through the synthesis of pre-existing design ideas. The repercussion of this new design paradigm is the quality of the design output has become …
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Exploring Electronic Storyboards as Interdisciplinary Design Tools for Pervasive Computing
… computational worlds poses challenges for the design of these systems - what disciplines should be involved in their design and what tools and processes should they follow? We address these issues by advocating for interdisciplinary design of pervasive computing systems. Based upon our …
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Designing prenatal m-Health interventions through transmigrants reflection on their pregnancy ecology
… from three participatory focus group and co-design sessions with Caribbean transmigrant women in the United States. Informed by their focus group discussions regarding their pregnancy experiences in the United States, the participants produced design ideas that reflected on physical, …
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A computational model of visual interpretation
From the very early phases of design conception, designers use sketches as a powerful design tool. Sketches are however ambiguous. Meanings are associated on fly as the designer 'comes up' with certain ideas while working with it. There is no hierarchy in a sketch. In fact 'structure' is …
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Community and change in Jakarta's public housing : the story of Klender
… capital intensive projects, with a completed design, as well as site and service projects, which leaves the final home to be completed by the resident. The site and service project of Klender has undergone a major physical transformation, from a grouping of bare concrete block shell s to a …
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No Person Detected
… of privacy. This wearable technology was designed to counteract the involuntary recording of an individual's unique biometric data through the use of body cameras and CCTV, which can be accessed by law enforcement and marketing companies. The technology represents a democratization of …
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Efficient Methods for Exploring Chemical Space in Computational Drug Discovery
… work, place them in the wider context of drug design and outline the theory used to generate the results presented in subsequent chapters. The first result of this thesis, discussed in chapter 2, is for the application of free energy methods to the problem of computational fluorine scanning. …
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Masterbuilders : a gallery for making at the edge of the mockup
… in the formal and social outcomes of a design as they are in the materials and construction techniques that make them real. Despite this, contemporary architectural practice has veered away from the concept of masterbuilder, and into more limiting and bracketed professional roles. The …
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C L I M A + : an early design natural ventilation prediction method
One of the most widely discussed passive building design strategies is using natural ventilation for cooling. In addition to providing fresh air, which enhances occupant productivity and comfort, strategic implementation of natural ventilation in buildings reduces the energy needed for cooling. And …
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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 …
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Student team decision-making processes and assessment criteria in early stage engineering design
… the beginning and the middle of a senior product design capstone course for mechanical engineering students. Purpose: This paper seeks to understand how social team decision-making processes and assessment criteria affect the quality and process of group coherence and communication for mechanical …
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Using shared displays to support group design; A study of the use of informal user interface designs when learning to program
… sketches have traditionally been used to depict design ideas because they are quick to draw and can include as much or little detail as is required to convey the essence of the ideas. Computer tools are now an alternative and offer advantages for editing, storing and transmitting designs. …
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Designing for privacy in the learning environment
… background information on educational and school design issues. An investigation of a handful of schools in the Boston area gives a description of how the class spaces are used, and uncovers shortcomings and strengths of the buildings. Finally, this information is used to draw some conclusions …
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