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SIG Day 27 August On Monday, 27 August the ICED conference will be preceded by a Design Society Special Interest Group (SIG) Day, to be held at Ecole Centrale, Paris (ECP) at Châtenay-Malbry on the south-west outskirts of Paris. The Society is very grateful to ECP who in addition to providing the venue for the event will provide meals and refreshments and transportation for delegates from the nearby Antony RER station and to the ICED07 welcoming reception in the evening. Antony station is on the direct line from central Paris and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and is also the terminus for the short automatic shuttle train from Paris’s Orly Airport so the venue is very convenient for those traveling to join the ICED conference.PROGRAMME
DS-MS-1 EcoDesign SIG The focus of the EcoDesign SIG is linking together the scientific research results in the field of ecodesign from the SIG's active universities and research centres, and preparing them for implementation in industry. Their Paris workshop will take an active approach to discussing the actual implementation of their own research topics in ecodesign to real products. They will do this by taking a physical product and asking all ‘active’ workshop delegates to relate their own research topics, models and theories to the actual product. The product for the workshop will be supplied by American/French furniture manufacturer Steelcase. Product developers from Steelcase will also be invited to the workshop, so as to join in the discussion and hear the reflections of the workshop delegates, regarding the environmental profile and potential improvements to their product. The organisers expect that the workshop will (i) create an active discussion of the participants’ research activities, based on a concrete product; (ii) show a multi-aspect approach to ecodesign, highlighting conflicting and complementary approaches to environmental product improvement; and (iii) further understanding of each others’ work in the area of ecodesign. For further details please contact Professor Tim McAloone, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, e-mail: tm@mek.dtu.dkDS-MS-2 Decision Making SIG The title of the workshop for the SIG Decision Making will be “Decision Making in practise – challenges and solution approaches”. In particular, the following topics will be included: Modelling of Products and Processes; Definitions of the Degree of Maturity: The concept of the degree of maturity is more and more used and appears in various contexts. However, there is no consistent definition existing at present. Explanations used today refer to special challenges in the design process. The purpose is to contribute to a uniform concept formation for the degree of maturity. Human-Centric vs. Computational Approach in Decision Making: Currently, the focus of Decision Making research is on evaluation methods. However, the social respectively human influence when solving Decision Making problems is considerable. How can social parts in decisions be handled? Are there differences between team decisions ore individual decisions? All kinds of questions like this are to be discussed within this topic. Visualization of Decision Making Problems: Often, multicriterial Decision Making tasks are very opaque. Alternatives to decide between, desired properties of the product and goals to be reached are highly interdependent and often linked with each other in a complex way. Presentations and discussions of approaches, how more transparency can be created by visualising those kinds of Decision Making tasks, are welcome within this topic. There will be several statements on each topic presented, which will be discussed intensively. For further details please contact Professor Harald Meerkamm, Chair of Engineering Design, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, e-mail: meerkamm@mfk.uni-erlangen.deDS-MS-3 Applied Engineering Design Science (AEDS) and Design Theory and Research Methodology (DTRM) SIGs The focus of the AEDS SIG is on general engineering design theories and methodologies and on branch specific engineering design processes and experiences. The DTRM SIG aims to realise a commonly accepted definition of design theory, its purpose and constituting elements and to increase the quality and acceptance of design research. The two SIGs will be holding a joint workshop in Paris with the aim to bring together representatives of the different AEDS and DTRM streams from practice and academia, and to contribute to establishing more up-to-date contacts, knowledge and stimulation to support the continuing DS efforts for the consolidation, development and applications of Engineering Design Science both in industry and education. Presentations of invited as well as other submitted (and before the workshop agreed) presentations of representatives of industrial companies from different countries are expected. Each speaker will be asked to prepare a concise presentation (no more than 10 minutes in length and/or standard poster presentation) encompassing the introduction of the developed products, characterization of the used concept/part of engineering design theory and methodology, its faced advantages and/or drawbacks, and resulting proposals on its improvement and/or demands and requirements on its further development. It is intended that a rough workshop summary will be outlined, and included in a workshop CD. Deadline for applications including a short abstract (100 - 200 words): 31 May 2007 For further details please contact Professor Stanislav Hosnedl, Department of Machine Design, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic, e-mail: hosnedl@kks.zcu.czDS-MS-4 Design Creativity SIG The objective of the SIG - Design Creativity is to study creativity in design. We have not sufficiently clarified creativity, especially in the context of design, although it is a very interesting characteristic in the thinking processes of humans. This research discusses creativity in design, instead of trying to identify its standard characteristics. That is, it tries to answer the question "What is design?" from the viewpoint of creativity, from 2 perspectives. First, this SIG discusses the characteristics of creative thinking (i.e. creativity in synthesis) in the process of forming new concepts, rather than understanding the formed new concept "as is". Second, this SIG explores the characteristics that are common to diverse kinds of design, such as engineering and industrial design, as well as the characteristics that are specific to each field. In this workshop, we are going to have a founding meeting to set up work plans through an exchange of ideas and information. To be precise, (1) the agenda for the SIG will be introduced by the chair (2) the workshop at the 6th Creativity and Cognition Conference will be reported (3) a number of invited speeches on potential research topics within the theme of creative design will be presented and (4) the work plan will be discussed. For further details please contact Professor Toshiharu Taura, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan, e-mail:taura@kobe-u.ac.jpDS-AS-1 Human Behavior in Design SIG The aim of the Special Interest Group in Human Behavior in Design (HBiD) is to share information and experience in research and application related to behavioral aspects of designing. Thus, the HBiD SIG is especially focused on 1. research of design thinking processes 2. research of design processes in the social context 3. methods for improving thinking processes 4. empirical research methodologies for studying human behavior in design The Paris workshop will be the SIG’s first meeting as an officially approved Special Interest Group (SIG). As until now there has not been an established group of members the SIG leadership wishes to discuss two basic issues at this workshop: A) Individual Knowledge and Experience: Discussion will address the question “what is the range of research interests and own research work on the topic human behavior in design?”. Each person who wishes to participate is asked to prepare two minutes of presentation on current (and future) research projects to identify where their experience and interests lie. B) Exchange of Knowledge and Experience: The second topic to be discussed will ask how cooperation can be started and then continued via an operating communicating network of those who join the SIG. Discussion will centre on how to steer different activities within the SIG. For further details please contact Professor Petra Badke-Schaub, The Design Methodology Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, e-mail: p.badke-schaub@io.tudelft.nlDS-AS-2 Design Education SIG The Design Education SIG aims to provide a forum for the identification, sharing and dissemination of best practice in design education. It plans at the Paris workshop to bring together individuals with an interest in developing the field of engineering design education. The workshop will have two themes – the design education agenda and the development of a global design education network. In addressing the design education agenda it is hoped to identify and agree the key issues and themes that need to be addressed to enhance the design educational experience. This will then lead to a discussion of how best these issues should be addressed. There currently are a number of design education groups and networks in various parts of the world. The workshop will also aim to identify and map the relationships between these groups and to identify mechanisms for interaction. To facilitate this aspect of the workshop we are particularly keen that individuals with involvement in national design education groups or networks attend. For further details please contact Bill Ion, Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, e-mail w.j.ion@strath.ac.ukDS-AS-4 Development of Mechatronic Products and Systems SIG Mechatronics concerns the synergetic integration of different engineering domains such as mechanics, electronics and information technology can create new products and stimulate innovative solutions. The Paris workshop wants to bring together people who work in the field of mechatronic-specific design science and provide them with a forum to present and discuss their ideas. In particular, the workshop intends to initiate the exchange and the discussion on: 1. what is state of the art in mechatronic-specific design? 2. where within the scientific community are mechatronic-specific research activities? 3. how can these activities be co-ordinated and consolidated? 4. which are main research aspects and perspectives for the future? 6 invited short presentations from experts in the field of mechatronics will give an overview on research activities in different countries and summarize the state of the art in mechatronic-specific design. Based on these presentations a final discussion is expected to make first statements and action recommendations on the consolidation and further development of research. For further details please contact Dr.-Ing. Stefan Moehringer, Simon Moehringer Anlagenbau GmbH, Wiesentheid, Germany, e-mail: stm@moehringer.com
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