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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"design practices"”.
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Design as Ethics: Developing Design Practices for Sensory Augmentation
… explores how ethics is enacted through the design of SA and examines how these issues are shaped by, and shape, the design process of future devices (Tonkinwise, 2004; Verbeek, 2011). The aim is to empower SA creators to develop ethical devices in lieu of regulation. To do so this research …
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Understanding service design practices and contributions to new service development
Since two decades ago, Service Design as a design-led approach to service development and innovation has expanded its scope of interventions and contributions. It has been repositioning itself from a rendering activity for supporting the development of service concepts and structures to a …
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Shaping virtual realities: Heuristics and design practices for simulations and games
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Epistemologies of safety : a comparative study of contemporary French and American reactor design practices
… terms and treated quantitatively. But do reactor designers in fact conceptualize safety in this way? I probe this question empirically through a comparative study of contemporary French and American reactor design practices. I examine the evolution of national nuclear safety regulators' …
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Examining knowledge transfer between design research and healthcare design practices: an interpretive comparative case study
The utilization of research to inform design decisions has been a rising topic of discussion. There is a gap between design research, how it is communicated and its accessibility, and the design industry, the ones responsible for designing and building the environments people inhabit (Huber, 2017). …
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The place of complete streets: aligning urban street design practices with pedestrian and cycling priorities
… use streets. Canadian municipal transportation practices are largely based on conventional approaches, where the movement of motor vehicles is a priority. The purpose of this practicum is to identify ways that selected precedents from Canadian and European municipal practices, may inform …
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Contextual Shaping of Student Design Practices: The Role of Constraint in First-Year Engineering Design
Research on engineering design is a core area of concern within engineering education, and a fundamental understanding of how engineering students approach and undertake design is necessary in order to develop effective design models and pedagogies. This dissertation contributes to scholarship on …
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Questioning Commonplace Ecological Design: a study of waterfront design practices and the ecological well-being of development in the harbor of Oyster, Virginia
… guiding the natural process of exchange. The design of Oyster Harbor on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is in contrast to normative development of waterfront sites. The hard edge of common practices of waterfront development stands in tension to the more natural evolving edge of many …
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"Doing design": notes on the social organization of studio life
… employs the use of ethnographic approaches to design practices. General arguments concerning the use of ethnography within design research are advanced. Empirical findings, derived from the employment of ethnographic methods to a design studio setting, are used to support specific claims …
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Examining design management in the era of digitalization from eastern and western perspectives
… thesis investigates how approaches to managing design differ nationally in new product development and design for digital technology-embedded product and service. The main aim of this thesis is, first, to understand different approaches to managing design in terms of Eastern and Western …
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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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Stakeholder-based sustainable design: a participatory learning model
… 20th century development emphasized car-oriented design which drew businesses and people out of town centers, while subsequent economic downturns have left many towns with budget shortfalls and expensive, over-capacity infrastructure (Pigg 1991, 6-7). Adoption of sustainable design practices …
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Patchworked creative practice and mobile ecologies
… there are more opportunities for young visual designers around the world to gain access to design industries. Yet differences in infrastructure and spatial configurations create distinct obstacles and opportunities for emerging designers from marginal contexts, as often these infrastructures …
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The values and ethics of biomedical engineering practices in the design of novel biotechnologies
… laboratories across the United States. They are designed to provide cutting-edge diagnostics and treatments to patients within clinical settings. The primary designers of these novel technologies are biomedical engineers working in laboratory groups affiliated with academic biomedical engineering …
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A Shift In Perspective
Responsible design practice should include environmental advocacy and a focus on community — subjects often lacking in design education. My creative project is the result of investigations into how designers integrate nature into their design process. By increasing their awareness for communal and …
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Medieval Islamic and Gothic architectural drawings : masons, craftsmen and architects
As medieval designers and craftsmen have left us with no textual evidence of their thinking processes, their drawings offer valuable sources through which their approach to design and construction can be investigated. Focusing on the early architectural drawings of the medieval period, this thesis …
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Culturally-Integrative Encoding: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach to Cultural Learning Interfaces
… concerns and to actively support inclusive design practices. Secondly, I propose the Culturally-Integrative Encoding Methodology for constructing an interactive cultural learning experience that (1) represents the culture in a manner that is acceptable and recognizable as accurate to members …
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Architectural correlates of privacy: the dynamics of privacy regulation
… and adaptability of the HEM to environmental design research. The conceptual model of privacy regulation presented in the study guided the research and extends theoretical considerations regarding social, behavioral, and environmental mechanisms operating within the context of culture that are …
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Investigating and applying traditional urbanism principles to design a residential neighbourhood in Cairo
… in recent years. A lack of planning and urban design guidelines has led to sprawling cities suffering from pollution, a lack of green space, dilapidated infrastructure and congestion.Response to these critical issues has simply centered on design practices that create gated communities, which …
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Modesty, Dress-codes and ‘Local Taste’: Examining Abaya-led Fashion Practices in The United Arab Emirates
… and how items and imagery of contemporary abaya design, specifically from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are produced and disseminated to various audiences. I investigate the motivations, agency and tastes of women who wear abayas and explore how designers operate across the spectrum of …
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