While externalising their thoughts and giving design ideas a physical form, industrial designers make use of various kinds of media, such as drawing on paper, constructing in foam or card, generating computerbased 2D and 3D representations, and so on. The creation of such ‘models’ or ‘representations’ of developmental design ideas fulfils two fundamental roles: to aid communication (mostly to o...

This paper proposes a new technique for designing spaces, called Drafted Virtual Reality (DVR), to be used in interior, architectural or industrial design. It proposes the construction of virtual panoramic environments through the QuickTime VR (QTVR) Panorama platform (Apple), starting from sketches made by hand using traditional pen-on-paper techniques. To construct these drawings, the designe...

For designers, featural and functional characteristics of a product are the obvious means to express its functionalities. Usage as intended in a design may be conceived as being mediated by product semantics or affordances. These concepts primarily involve scientific generalisations. Usecues are introduced as a pragmatic design tool. There is a brief discussion of experience with the notion of ...

Functional modeling is the mainly option in current conceptual design, which relies on the designers’ subjective experience and lacks of intelligence. We choose behavior flow modeling which is more intelligent for conceptual design and express the behavior flow by establish the semantic network and Petri nets in this paper. At the end, we illustrate the expression of spatial sequence in behavio...

Typically, complex engineering artifacts are designed by teams who may not all be located in the same building or even city. Additionally, besides having to design a part of an artifact to be consistent with the specification, it must also be consistent with the company’s design standards. The Designers’ Workbench supports designers by checking that their configurations satisfy both physical an...

As device sizes shrink and the complexity of single-chip functionality increases, designers nd that they must express their ideas at higher levels of abstraction. This not only forces a greater reliance on tools to enable and implement their designs, but it also forces a move to new languages. In this paper, we propose a design methodology using C++ which allows designers to specify and re ne t...

In architecture and industrial design, the concept of style plays a major role in education as a way of establishing an understanding of visual design expression. In this article we claim that interaction design can benefit greatly from an understanding of the concept of style. It can provide designers with strong visions and a sense of direction in designing new interfaces. In particular we fo...

Industry recognizes wireless sensor networks as one of the next major technical and economical shifts in automation and control systems. Industrial applications need performance assurances of wireless communication, which is hard to attain given the variability of the environment where such applications are deployed. In this paper, we quantify the impact of environmental conditions, namely temp...

With anticipated exponential growth of connected devices, future industrial networks require an open solutions architecture facilitated by standards and a strong ecosystem. VirtuWind aims to develop and demonstrate an SDN and NFV ecosystem, based on an open, modular and secure framework. A prototype of the framework for intra-domain and interdomain scenarios will be showcased in real Wind Parks...