by Dev Ramanujan | Apr 20, 2015 | 2015, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Vinayak
Customer inputs in the early stages of design can potentially lead to completely new outlooks in concept generation. We propose crowd-based co-creation as a means to this end. Our main idea is to think of the customer as a source of initial design concepts rather than...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jan 5, 2015 | 2015, Ansh Verma, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Jasjeet Seehra, Karthik Ramani, Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tangibles
The combination of technological progress and a growing interest in design has promoted the prevalence of DIY (Do It Yourself) and craft activities. In a similar spirit, we introduce HandiMate, a platform that makes it easier to fabricate and animate...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Dec 3, 2014 | 2015, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Karthik Ramani, Publications
Researchers are regularly interested in interpreting the multipartite structure of data entities according to their functional relationships. Data is often heterogeneous with intricately hidden inner structure. With limited prior knowledge, researchers are likely to...
by Sujin | Oct 4, 2014 | 2014, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Karthik Ramani, Mid-air Interaction, Spatial Analytics, Sujin Jang
Understanding the intent behind human gestures is a critical problem in the design of gestural interactions. A common method to observe and understand how users express gestures is to use elicitation studies. However, these studies requires time-consuming analysis of...
by Joran | Sep 8, 2014 | 2014, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani
While much prior work has been done regarding sketching and its impact on design and a few on how to train engineers to sketch, there have been no prior studies in engineering to reduce inhibition to frequent sketching. This paper describes a sketching intervention...
by Joran | Sep 8, 2014 | 2014, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani
The purpose of this study is to continue to explore which function identification methods work best for specific design tasks. Prior literature describes the top-down and bottom-up approaches as equivalent methods for functional decomposition. Building on our prior...
