Nowadays, e-commerce Web sites host a large amount of online reviews. Rich information is provided in online reviews. Designers benefit from this information to gain customer requirements. However, there are a large number of online reviews. It makes designers difficult to digest reviews efficiently. In the past few years, many researchers in computer science study how to analyze online reviews...

many heterogeneous sources of information. This is a time consuming and difficult task. This fact combined with the rapidly emerging information super highways (internet, WWW, etc.) makes it highly relevant to discuss what characterizes engineering designers information need and usage, and what kind of computer-based support of exploration activities should be provided. These are the main quest...

The fundamental challenge for human-computer interaction (HCI) is to invent and design a culture in which humans can express themselves and engage in personally meaningful activities. Cultures are substantially defined by their media and tools for thinking, working, learning, and collaborating. New media change (1) the structure and contents of our interests, (2) the nature of our cognitive and...

Formal analysis is a very powerful verification technique, but it has usually been regarded as a method to be used only by expert verification engineers. Recently, standard assertion formats, improved technology, and pragmatic methodologies have all contributed to make formal analysis very useful for designers as well. At multiple teams within STMicroelectronics, formal analysis with Incisive F...

A tangible user interface for designers changes the way in which the designers perceive and interact with a digital model. We studied the changes a specific tangible user interface has on designers’ spatial cognition through the comparison of designers using tangible user interface and graphical user interface environments. The results reveal that TUIs change designers’ spatial cognition, and t...

In the robot development, the level of technology and stability is recognized in a different way from the real elements of robot mechanisms through interaction design. So robot designers research on not only appearance design but also interaction design based on an understanding of HRI. This study focused on robot designer’s experiment and suggested a framework for efficient experiments plannin...

Ax approach for designing and developing decision aiding systems is presented through the design and definition of the architecture of a system, corresponding to a real problem: that of providing aid to designers The purpose of the decision aid is to provide assistance to computer system designers tackling interface usability problems and needing to know which modelling techniques out of an arr...

This paper describes a method called speed sketching, which utilizes user data as inspiration in a brainstorm-like session. The user data comes from a design probe study of an entrance to a building. One challenge with usercentered design is to give life to user data in the design process. A design workshop was held with five designers as participators. During the workshop speed sketching was u...