Design thinking (DT) is regarded as a system of three overlapping spaces—viability, desirability, and feasibility—where innovation increases when all three perspectives are addressed. Understanding how innovation within teams can be supported by DT methods and tools captivates the interest of business communities. This paper aims to examine how DT methods and tools foster innovation in teams. A...

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 ...

Data-driven systems and applications are specialized software solutions for acquisition, management, and presentation of information. These systems are usually developed using the same software tools, technologies, and processes used for creating any other type of software. Not only is this approach inefficient, but also it results in extreme redundancies due to the inherently repetitive nature...

The recent increase in the number and complexity of the language resources available on the Internet is followed by a similar increase of available tools for linguistic analysis. Ideally the user does not need to be confronted with the question in how to match tools with resources. If resource repositories and tool repositories offer adequate metadata information and a suitable exchange protoco...

Audio/visual speech, in the form of labial movement and facial expression data, was utilized in order to semi-automatically build a new Italian expressive and emotive talking head capable of believable and emotional behavior. The methodology, the procedures and the specific software tools utilized for this scope will be described together with some implementation examples.

We present a software tool which analyses the technical ability of saxophonists. In an academic practicing context, control of the air pressure is an important aspect which is strongly correlated to the academic level of the performer. We propose several methods for evaluating the performer by considering the evolution of the fundamental frequency during the performance of specially designed ex...

This paper introduces a design tool that provides customised engineering analysis functionalities for a manufacturer of metal frames. This work is motivated by the need for supporting small to medium scale enterprises (SMEs) with affordable computer aided analysis tools. The design process followed by a SME, Wright Metal Products of Simpsonville, SC, primarily depends on special expertise of a ...

This extended abstract gives a brief outline of the connections between the descriptions and variable concepts. Thus, the notion of a concept is extended to include both the syntax and semantics features. The evaluation map in use is parame-terized by a kind of computational environment, the index, giving rise to indexed concepts. The concepts are inhabited into language by the descriptions fro...

Ontology construction is a complex process composed by extraction tasks for domain concepts, as well as taxonomic and non-taxonomic relations among concepts. The extraction of non-taxonomic relations is the most neglected task, specially for Portuguese texts. Therefore, this paper presents a proposal for extracting non-taxonomic relations from Portuguese texts represented by a list of concepts ...