Quantum Mechanics, Ambiguity and Design: Towards a Framework

Quantum Mechanics could have fundamental impact on design models and measurement. Quantum mechanics allows us to fill in the blanks of classical models of design, through its ability to explain ambiguous states of design. An ambiguous state is where design exists in between two binary states, as a superposition. Designers are most likely to...

Random Term Generation for Compiler Testing in Spoofax

Testing is the most commonly used technique for raising confidence in the correctness of a piece of software, but constructing an effective test suite is expensive and prone to error. Property-based testing partly automates this process by testing whether a property holds for all randomly generated inputs, but its effectiveness depends upon the...

A storm is coming? Collective sensemaking and ambiguity in an inter-organizational team managing railway system disruptions

This paper studies the ways in which members of inter-organizational teams collectively make sense of unexpected events and how they decide upon engaging in action. Frequently, ambiguity dominates such change processes aimed to create common understanding. Using the notion of the duality of intrinsic and constructed ambiguity, a detailed...

Embracing Ambiguity in Product Design

What is ambiguity? Among designers and engineers, ambiguity is frequent a topic that is avoided for sake of facilitating smooth user-product interactions and ease in product use. This avoidance is different than other fields, such as art, which embrace ambiguity frequently to evoke intriguing and engaging art experiences. The potentials of...

Approaches towards a Probabilistic Assessment of Geotechnical Parameter Distributions Relying on Geophysical Imaging

Geophysical imaging techniques, such as seismic crosshole tomographic methods, provide spatially continuous information about physical parameter variations in the ground. This physical parameter information, e.g., distribution of seismic velocities, is frequently used to estimate spatial distributions of geotechnical target parameters that could...

Space of ambiguity: Toward the evanescence

When we walk on the streets in Istanbul, we are submerged by second use of space. The background offered by the city is an opportunity for interpretations. Facades are a layer of time, the streets a giant market, tracks in empty plots an inscription of flows... Spontaneity is overlapping with established rules. It is like the every built part of...

Awareness of the light field: The case of deformation

Human observers group local shading patterns into global super-patterns that appear to be illuminated in some unitary fashion. Many years ago, this was noticed for the case of uniform, unidirectional illumination. Recently, we found that it also applies to convergent and divergent illumination flows, but that human observers are blind to...