This paper describes first year students’ interest and motivation towards the field of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) at the University of Twente during three years (2002-2004). Data was gathered systematically based on students’ interest to aspects of IDE: technology, styling, ergonomics and marketing. Students’ arguments were analysed with help of a theoretical framework, based on: 1. a ...

Mass customization and market uncertainty require increased functional and physical bandwidth in product platforms. This paper presents a flexible platform design process in response to such future uncertainty. The process consists of seven iterative steps and is applied to an automotive body-in-white (BIW) where 10 out of 21 components are identified as potential candidates for embedding flexi...

Data from 33 lesbian and 54 gay male cohabiting couples were used to examine the relation between parental identification and mate selection. Theories of mate selection and parental identification are reviewed. Effects of gender and sexual orientation as they relate to parental identification and mate selection in gay male and lesbian couples also are reviewed. The results demonstrate significa...

A new algorithm is proposed for removing large objects from digital images. The challenge is to fill in the hole that is left behind in a visually plausible way. In the past, this problem has been addressed by two classes of algorithms: (i) “texture synthesis” algorithms for generating large image regions from sample textures, and (ii) “inpainting” techniques for filling in small image gaps. Th...

Radio over Fiber technology (RoF), an integration of wireless and Fiber optic networks, is an essential technology for the provision of un tethered access to broadband wireless communications in a range of applications including last mile solutions, extension of existing radio coverage and capacity, and backhaul. This paper gives the brief introduction of radio over fiber technology used in com...

The Spatial Information Services Stack Vocabulary Service (SISSVoc) is a Linked Data API for publishing vocabularies. SISSVoc provides a RESTful interface via a set of URI patterns that are aligned with SKOS. This provides a standard web interface to any controlled vocabulary structured using, or decorated with, SKOS classes and properties. It can be consumed via web clients as human-readable r...

Good alignment and repetition of objects across presentation slides can facilitate visual processing and contribute to audience understanding. However, creating and maintaining such consistency during slide design is difficult. In order to solve this problem, we present two complementary tools: (1) StyleSnap, which increases the alignment and repetition of objects by adaptively clustering objec...

The process of styling virtual hair is a tedious task for 3D artists, who would significantly profit from more natural and intuitive ways of creating virtual hairstyles such as, for example, the possibility to simply comb virtual hair using a haptic device. However, despite significant advances in hair simulation during the last decades, physically based haptic interaction with hair is still an...

Container Technology is one of the most hyped virtualization technologies in the last couple of years. It enables not only higher application density on the same HW environment compared to hypervisor-based technologies but it also gives performance benefits regarding to starting and stopping applications. Container technologies are not new, but more recently an entire ecosystem has been built a...