Background of Design Criteria For Municipal Incinerators—The Designer’s View

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

Enhancing Design Criteria for Novice Virtual Environment Designers through the Identification of Usability Problems

1 Suziah Sulaiman, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia [email protected] 2 Rohiza Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia, [email protected] Abstract In this paper we investigate common problems made by novice designers in their virtual environment (VE) designs. Our aim through this study is to alleviate some of the problems ...

How Expert Designers Design

In both business training and higher professional education there is a clear shift towards competencybased learning to cope with fast technological and societal changes. Competencies can be construed as abilities that enable learners to recognize and define new problems in their domain of study and future work as well as solve these problems (Kirschner, van Vilsteren, Hummel, & Wigman, 1997). A...

Design Aid Tools for User Interface Designers

Empirical results have shown that there is a real need for user interface development tools with domain competence based on human factors knowledge practised, and extended during ongoing use-in other words, development tools in which designers learn an demand. The paper addresses an important research approach in the area of user interface development tools, namely to discover helpful, unobtrus...

Design Aid Tools for User Interface Designers