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...

Editorial: How are product development and engineering processes enhanced by involving research

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...

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...