Special Issue: Life-Cycle Design

Special Issue

Editorial_ Special issue “Planetary evolution and life”

Given the enormous number of stars in the universe and the number of confirmed and postulated planets in our galaxy, it is generally agreed that our home planet Earth is not likely to be unique (e.g., Sagan, 1980; Bignami et al., 2005; Hawking and Mlodinow, 2010). But is it? Although the number of known extrasolar planets grows almost by the day, observational bias caused by the technological c...

Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design

IFIP 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) is a working group, which aims to establish relationships between empirical work-domain studies and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design. Our concern is to extend the long tradition of HCI to study the connections between interaction design and the work context, in the light of the fact that the world that we work in has become much more digital...

Introduction Special Issue on “ Sustainable Urban Design ”

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

Special issue: Uncertainties in geometric design

In computing, it is a basic fact that, owing to the finiteness in representation, errors occur and they accumulate. In geometric computing, the 'logic' for performing set operations is not necessarily the classical binary one. How, then, does one ensure a robust process, if not error-free results? Physically, uncertainty in geometric data manifests itself in metrological studies in the small, a...