Research in Interactive Design

This book provides an accurate overview of the recent research or industrial application in interactive design. The different arguments, taken from the international conference Virtual Concept 2005, will provide the reader with some advanced solutions concerning new methods and tools by discussing modelling techniques, design solution space exploration and interactive process organization.

Interactive Design: Then and Now	p. 1
Short History of Creation	p. 1
Knowledge Modelling	p. 2
Interactive Support to Decision Making: a Virtual Way	p. 3
Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering	p. 7
Product Design Process	p. 7
Multidisciplinary Approach	p. 9
Conceptual Design	p. 11
Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing	p. 13
Knowledge in Engineering	p. 16
Advanced Manufacturing	p. 19
Inspection and Reverse Engineering Techniques	p. 26
Product Lifecycle Management	p. 29
Creativity	p. 31
Tolerancing in Design and Manufacturing	p. 33
DFA and DFM	p. 36
Process and Production Management	p. 38
Re-Design	p. 41
Interactive Product Design	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
Interactive product design through the lifecycle	p. 46
Needed requirements for the interactive design	p. 48
Feedback of the industrial engineering support systems and outlooks	p. 52
Interactive Simulation for Design	p. 53
Interfaces for Interactive Design	p. 55
Team and Process Interactive Management	p. 57
Interactive Virtual Representation	p. 60
Virtual and Geometric Models	p. 63
Human Centred Design	p. 65
Models for Interactive Design: Techniques and Qualification	p. 68
Interactive Exploration of Design Spaces	p. 70
CAE, CAD and Virtual Reality	p. 73
Behavioural Simulation	p. 75
Assistance and Virtual Reality	p. 77
Robust Manufacturing	p. 80
Risk Prevention	p. 83
Green Engineering, Design and Innovation	p. 85
Global Design and Manufacturing	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Prologue	p. 93
Current academic and industrial solutions	p. 94
Design rationale issue and expected trends	p. 94
Global Design Tools, Methods and Techniques	p. 95
Extended and Virtual Factory	p. 98
Information Technology for Global-Design and Manufacture	p. 100
Virtual environments and prototyping for human health and safety	p. 103
Introduction	p. 103
Human Factors in Virtual Maintenance and Manufacturing	p. 105
Interactive Robotic Simulation in Cooperation Scenarios	p. 108
Virtual Prototyping in Medicine	p. 110
Product and Interaction Design Environments for the Future	p. 113
Introduction	p. 113
Advanced Prototyping for Interaction Design	p. 114
Virtual and Mixed Reality for Design	p. 116
Advanced Tools for Early Product Design	p. 118
TRIZ and Intellectual Property Management	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
Developments on Creativity	p. 125
Methods and Simulation Tools for Assembly Design and Manufacturing	p. 129
Introduction	p. 129
Developments on Tools for Assembly Design and Manufacturing	p. 130
European Qualification and Certification for the Lifelong Learning	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Ecqa and Emiracle for Lifelong Learning	p. 136
Emiracle	p. 136
Ecqa	p. 137
The Ecqa Qualification and Certification Schema	p. 138
Modern Job Roles in Innovative Product Development	p. 139
Ecqa Certified Integrated Design Engineer	p. 139
Ecqa Certified Lean Six Sigma Expert	p. 140
Ecqa Certified EU Researcher-Entrepreneur	p. 140
Training and Certification System	p. 142
Training Process	p. 143
Training Material	p. 144
Involvement of Aip-Primeca Network	p. 145
Conclusions	p. 146
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