Reconsidering Desire: The Multi-Disciplinary Imperative

ISVH – A multi-disciplinary society

The International Society for Vascular Health (ISVH) was established in June 2005 as a non-profit making society under French Law (1901). Publication of ISVH bylaws and establishment of the Executive Committee were achieved in August 2005. The first question posed by the Board was: “Why yet another International Society?” The unanimous conclusion of the ISVH Board was that there exists an urgen...

Educating Multi-disciplinary Design Teams

Designing interactive systems requires diverse expertise, which is why most successful design teams are multi-disciplinary. Unfortunately, managing such teams can be difficult, because team members often do not communicate effectively with each another. When we teach interaction design, we address this problem explicitly, with a two-fold approach: First, we explain the value systems and some of...

Mapping Multi-Disciplinary Design Processes

This paper describes research in progress whose goal is to synthesize design methodologies for rapid product development in multi-disciplinary design situations. The potential outcome is superior design methodologies that facilitate integration and collaboration between different disciplines, conduct design tasks concurrently, and apply to a wide range of design problems, thus reducing costs an...

MAXI - Multi-System Application Extreme-Scaling Imperative

Multi - Stage Imperative Languages : A Conservative Extension