There have been many systems developed that attempt to recover design and structure from code. In this paper, we present our experience with using one such tool, SoFi, to extract design structure from a large industrial system written in C. We compare the extracted structure to that which was intended by the designers of the system. We observe and categorize, for our system, the reasons why the...

This paper describes a tool to support model checking of interactive systems within an industrial environment. The paper introduces the proposed design framework and the tool that is designed to bridge between those familiar with company practice and the less familiar approach based on model checking. The tool was developed to be used in an avionics design setting. It is currently at a prototyp...

Formal Specification Techniques (FSTs) are mathematically-based techniques that can be used by system designers to specify the desired behavior of a computer-based system and its structural properties. It has been hypothesized that the use of FSTs in software design has two primary advantages: (1) the act of formalizing design concepts provides the designer with insights that can lead to a deep...

Focus groups are widely used within human factors, social sciences and market research. Whilst user-research methods may be familiar to other disciplines, conventional design training has not, until recently, incorporated such activities. With the increased awareness for the necessity to elicit user needs beyond the functional, design research is becoming more established. However, there is a s...

Industrial design is intrinsically linked to manufacturing; however, what required of industrial adapt new changes brought on by Industry 4.0 in manufacturing unknown. Current literature gives little insight into how designers need evolve the current developments remain value drivers an paradigm. There minimal research describing link between design, and effect this will have sustainability. We...

Ergonomic design is the adaptation of working conditions to human limitations and skills in the physical design phase of a new installation, a new working system, or new products or tools. Based on this concept, the purpose of this work was to analyze the implementation of ergonomic design at the new industrial units of an oil refinery, using the method of Ergonomic Workplace Assessment. This s...

We examine the usability and performance of Tablet PC direct pen input with a conventional graphical user interface (GUI). We use a qualitative observational study design with 16 participants divided into 4 groups: 1 mouse group for a baseline control and 3 Tablet PC groups recruited according to their level of experience. The study uses a scripted scenario of realistic tasks and popular office...

This paper presents a development methodology that helps designers to map efficiently applications onto a heterogeneous CPU/FPGA system. An industrial case study is presented and aims at meeting performance and real-time requirements with the help of our architecture capabilities and avionic model parallelization. Different avionic model implementations will be presented in order to explain how...

Designers of industrial datacom systems often ask, what is the most cost-effective implementation for multidropped, medium-speed, serial data communications? What data rates can be reliably achieved over what distance, and how? The design trade-off has always been less distance at a higher rate, or greater distance at a lower rate. So, the crucial question is: how far can you reliably transmit ...