The Virtual Assembly Design Environment (VADE) is a Virtual Reality (VR) based engineering application which allows engineers to evaluate, analyze, and plan the assembly of mechanical systems. This system focuses on utilizing an immersive virtual environment tightly coupled with commercial Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems. Salient features of VADE include: 1) data integration (two-way) with ...

Design comes from an environment, serves the environment, and changes the environment (Zeng, 2011). A product would resolve conflict(s) in its environment by providing certain services while becoming a part of the environment once having been realized. The environment of a service includes the subjects to be served, the infrastructure to support the service, and the resources available to the s...

This thesis explores the collaborative design process facing the challenge of the new era of information technology. Architecture design is often a tremendous collaboration process participated by multi-professions. Successful communication of requirement and intent are critical factors that could determine the overall success of the project both in concept and detailed design. In the informati...

The aim of this paper is to review the created problems and failure of environmental design patterns in designing process by designers. Not respectfully addressing the context of environment during designing process have resulted in the loss quality of environment, damage to both nature and essence of environment as manifested in the case study area. Methodology of the research was based on the...

Human computation is a new research area that takes advantage of human brain power to solve problems that computers cannot efficiently solve yet. In human computation systems, such as Games with A Purpose (GWAP) and crowdsourcing markets, users are given computationally hard tasks, and get rewards by accomplishing the tasks. In this work, we are interested in how to design a human computation s...

We argue that when externalities such as pollution are nonexcludable, agents must be compelled to participate in a "mechanism" to ensure a Pareto-efficient outcome. We survey some of the main findings of the mechanism-design (implementation-theory) literature such as the Nash implementation theorem, the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism, and the Arrow/d'Aspremon...