the present study seeks to investigate users’ perception and evaluation of the function of designed environments and highlights a deeper understanding of man-environment relationship. the study tries to answer the question: “is there any relationship between the physical features of environment and users’ perception and evaluation of the environment and their spatial behaviors?” such investigat...

This paper presents Manas, a Semiotic Engineering epistemic tool for the design of collaborative systems (CoSys) whose aim is to expand the designers’ knowledge and awareness of their influence on groups and group dynamics. Manas has been developed to help designers represent their conception of computer-mediated communication and reflect upon some of its potential social effects, springing fro...

Introduction The conception and implementation of information systems is an activity of increasing importance in the information society. The number and diversity of applications reach today almost any production and service activities, including the public health domain (YASNOFF et al., 2000). A variety of methods (development cycle1) are used by the designers in the conception of information ...

Learning Games (LGs) are educational environments based on a playful approach to learning. Their use has proven to be promising in many domains, but is at present restricted by the time consuming and costly nature of the developing process. In this paper, we propose a set of quality indicators that can help the conception team to evaluate the quality of their LG during the designing process, an...

Project management processes offer specific sites for understanding the interplay of the social and the technical. This article focuses on the connection between knowledge and technology through knowledge communication processes, cultural & rhetorical contexts in projects, and the iterative process of project conception rooted in sensemaking by designers. The data comes from a Project managemen...

The aim of this article is to explore the possibility designing from perspective care. addresses concept care throughout history design for well-being. text illustrates principal concepts ethics and applies them philosophy design. Vulnerability considered an indispensable moral position care, narration a method point view. In addition, offers examples designers with conception consistent Throug...

Since zinc die casting’s conception over 100 years ago, many new and improved developments have taken place to progress the industry and offer component designers a costeffective alternative to higher priced alloys and processes. The zinc industry has continued to develop new alloys in response to some of the challenges that face it. One such development is EZACTM, Eastern Alloys’ high strength...

Domain-oriented design environments (DODES) support c-ollaboration between (1) all stakeholders in a design process and (2) between stakeholders and computational environments. They serve as model for the design of collaborative systems by exploring and supporting different relationships and task responsibilities between humans and computers. Within human-computer collaboration, they are ground...

During many years, the designers just had two possibilities to design embedded systems; microprocessors and/or application specific integrated circuits. Nevertheless, a new possibility has appeared lately, the reconfigurable circuits. These systems have an important lack of tools at all design levels. Designers are then facing the difficult task of designing their target reconfigurable architec...

As information systems are increasingly pervading human life, the way information systems designers’ conceptualize and carry out the relationship between computerised information systems (IS) and users has recurrently been brought forward as a significant question. In particular, a matter of utmost importance is how the IS specialists create the IS-user relationship from the point of view of hu...