by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jan 16, 2017 | 2017, Design Collaboration, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Karthik Ramani, Recent Publications, Senthil Chandrasegaran
Design protocol analysis is a technique to understand designers’ cognitive processes by analyzing sequences of observations on their behavior. These observations typically use audio, video, and transcript data in order to gain insights into the designer’s...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 29, 2016 | 2016, Design Collaboration, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Publications, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Tarun George
In this study, we structured a toy design workshop to provide hands on and engaging design activities for middle school students, to help them develop self-efficacy beliefs in design, model and scaffold engineering design mindsets, and apply design concepts in...
by Joran | Jun 2, 2016 | 2016, Design Learn, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani, Publications
Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have become integral to the modern manufacturing process. These roles are filled both in prototyping and production. Many studies have been conducted and lists been written on guidelines for AM. While these lists are...
by Joran | Nov 24, 2015 | 2016, Design Learn, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani
Abstract: This paper explores improving sketching skills and reducing the inhibition to sketch for student designers. In the first study, students were taught sketching skills through an in-class workshop. The effect was evaluated using a pre-midpost test (n=40). In...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 30, 2015 | 2015, Anirudh Sriram, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD
ABSTRACT In helping students learn engineering design, it is very important that they explore complex scenarios that are realistic, and fall outside the domain of standard and over-simplified textbook problems that typically have an answer. A majority of the current...
by Joran | Aug 11, 2015 | 2015, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani, Recent Publications
This paper explores functional decomposition in early design. In the first part of this study, we explore how the three most common methods (top-down, energy-flow, enumeration) affect concept generation for novice design teams (n=25). We found that nearly all the...
