Development of tidal watersheds in the Wadden Sea

The Wadden Sea consists of a series of tidal lagoons which are connected to the North Sea by tidal inlets. Boundaries to each lagoon are the mainland coast, the barrier islands on both sides of the tidal inlet, and the tidal watersheds behind the two barrier islands. Behind each Wadden Island there is a tidal watershed separating two adjacent...

Assessment of the effects of the Zuider Sea closure on the hydrodynamics of the Wadden Sea inlets

Large hydrodynamic and morphodynamic changes have taken place in the western Dutch Wadden Sea due to the closure of the Zuider Sea in the early 1930s. Hydrodynamic simulations for three situations, viz. just before the closure, just after the closure and at present, have been carried out in order to investigate the hydrodynamic changes since the...

Evaluation of a ubiquitous learning system in a design engineering environment

Ubiquitous computing is computing power that is integrated in devices and environments in such a way that they offer optimal support to human daily life activities. For industrial design engineering students, applying ubiquitous technologies offer a great opportunity and challenge for innovating everyday products. To teach the students about...

Tidal divides

Considering cognitive aspects in designing cyber cyber-physical systems: An emerging need for transdisciplinarity

Cyber-physical augmentation: An exploration

Ubiquitous technologies provide many product innovation opportunities for industrial design engineers, such as creating user centered cyber-physical systems with adaptive capabilities to individual users and environments. The exploration discussed in this paper aims to uncover needs to know for designers to successfully augment physical products...

Design of Information-Intensive Systems Involving Cognitive Aspects: An Emerging Opportunity for Transdisciplinary Cooperation

With the rise of smart systems, ubiquitous computing and cyber-physical systems, information-intensiveness of products increases and users become challenged—possibly even overloaded—with expanding options and possible interactions. The number of possible variations of user-operation sequences can rapidly escalate and for designers it becomes...

The Circular Techno-Aesthetics of Woven Textile-forms: A Material and Process-driven Design Exploration.

Material-Driven Design (MDD) proposes that we value the behaviours, performance<br/>properties, and aesthetics that emerge from a material’s inherent properties – an approach that provides a much-needed perspective for the textile and fashion industry as it develops new sustainable and circular systems. This research expands this material-led...