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ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1

Theory, Research Methodology, Aesthetics, Human Factors and Education

  • Provides a holistic treatment of design-led innovation process, with papers from all major aspects of design and development
  • Special emphasis on design across boundaries, such as age-based boundaries as treated in inclusive innovation, user-designer divide addressed by co-innovation, economy-based divide addressed by design for the top or bottom of the pyramid, etc
  • Contains largest collection of cutting-edge research in design from researchers in India
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST, volume 34)

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Table of contents (59 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Design Theory and Research Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Case Study in Participatory Service Design for Rural Healthcare System in India Using a Pattern Language

      • Pramod Khambete, Uday Athavankar, Pankaj Doke, Ratnendra Shinde, Debjani Roy, Sujit Devkar et al.
      Pages 3-13
    3. Ways of Drifting—Five Methods of Experimentation in Research Through Design

      • Peter Gall Krogh, Thomas Markussen, Anne Louise Bang
      Pages 39-50
    4. Conduplicated Symmetries: Renegotiating the Material Basis of Prototype Research

      • Arne Berger, Michael Heidt, Maximilian Eibl
      Pages 71-78
    5. Holistic Approach to Product Design

      • S. Saleem Ahmed
      Pages 101-108
  3. Design Aesthetics, Semiotics, Semantics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
    2. Identification of User Perceptions and Design Parameters of Vehicle Cluster Instruments in Different Cultures

      • Pratap Kalenahalli Sudarshan, Matthias Wagner, Olesja Marinets, Michaela Kauer
      Pages 135-144
    3. Designing Alternative Paradigm for Traditional Visual Storytelling

      • Saptarshi Kolay, Shatarupa Thakurta Roy
      Pages 145-157
    4. An Introduction to the Tendency of Online Cosmetic Advertisement Design

      • Yen-Ting Lai, Ching-Yuan Huang, Mu-Chien Chou
      Pages 159-168
    5. Investigating Shape Comparison Tools for Benchmarking Differences in Product Appearance During Product Styling

      • Charlie Ranscombe, Philip Kinsella, Paul R. Stoddart, Gavin Melles
      Pages 169-179

About this book

This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 5th International Conference on Research into Design – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from across the world on design process, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design across boundaries. The special features of the book are the variety of insights into the product and system innovation process, and the host of methods and tools from all major areas of design research for the enhancement of the innovation process. The main benefit of the book for researchers in various areas of design and innovation are access to the latest quality research in this area, with the largest collection of research from India. For practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of theories, models, methods and tools that can be taught and practiced for design-led innovation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

    Amaresh Chakrabarti

About the editor

Amaresh Chakrabarti is professor of Engineering Design at Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Univ. of Calcutta (now IIEST), India, an ME in Mechanical Design from IISc, and a PhD in Engineering Design from University of Cambridge, UK. After PhD, he led for ten years the Design Synthesis team at the EPSRC Centre for Excellence Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge. His interests are in design synthesis and creativity, eco-design and sustainability, and product informatics. He has authored/edited 10 books, over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has 6 patents granted/pending. He co-authored DRM, a methodology used widely as a framework for doing engineering design research. He is an Associate Editor, AI EDAM, Area Editor, Research in Engineering Design (Springer), Regional Editor, Journal for Remanufacturing (Springer), and Advisory Editor for 7 international journals including Journal of Engineering Design, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer), and International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation. Professor Chakrabarti has been on the Advisory Board of Design Society, UK, where he is currently a member of the Board of Management, member of the CII National Committee on Design, India, and member of the Jury for India Design Mark, India Design Council. He founded IDeaSLab – the first laboratory in India for research into design creativity, sustainability and innovation. He is Chair for International Conferences on Research into Design (ICoRD), 22nd CIRP Design Conference (CIRP Design 2012), 3rd International Conference on Design Creativity (3rd ICDC 2015), and vice-Chair for AI in Design (AID) and Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) Conferences. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers, the peer society under the UK Royal Charter in engineering design. Seven of his papers won top paperawards in various international conferences.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1

  • Book Subtitle: Theory, Research Methodology, Aesthetics, Human Factors and Education

  • Editors: Amaresh Chakrabarti

  • Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2232-3

  • Publisher: Springer New Delhi

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer India 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2231-6Published: 14 January 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3566-8Published: 27 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2232-3Published: 23 December 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2190-3018

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-3026

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 689

  • Number of Illustrations: 122 b/w illustrations, 119 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Design, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Industrial and Production Engineering

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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