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RTD2015 10 Kindred Spirits: Smell fictions + performative design research
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Leret, Susana Cámara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: This paper explores the associative power of smell
as a performative design research medium, to trigger episodic memories of addiction patients from Mistral rehabilitation clinic, The Hague. It describes the use of smell as a speculative and storytelling device, leading to the design of the Smell-Memory Kit: The Molecules That Matter, to support memory recall and conversations evoked by particular smells. The sensory research was used to discuss the impact of the physical space on the wellbeing of patients, leading to the co-creation of the Kindred Spirits species; design probes functioning as ‘companion species’, which allowed patients and staff to talk about underlying behaviours and motivations surrounding therapy, within the clinic’s ecosystem. In an interplay between the mundane and the fantastic, the project balances real needs with imagined desires, building on sensory experiences to encourage the contemplation of alternative perspectives to the promotion of longterm behavioural change in addiction therapy.
RTD2015 13 Exploring interpretation as a creative strategy within type design
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Powley, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: This paper describes an investigation into interpretation as an alternative approach for developing type design concepts. My practice-based project explored different interpretive strategies, with the intention of identifying a framework to provide structure to the initial stages of type design. It also aimed to create a set of interpretive type design processes that were generative and flexible. The key interpretive strategy I drew on was conceptual metaphor theory. Metaphors can aid understanding by structuring a complex process in terms of a simpler, often physical or spatial, experience. I used two metaphors for linguistic translation to reframe and develop two interpretive type design processes, called Neighbourhood (transfer) and Build (assimilation). I used these to translate aspects of selected New Zealand suburban architecture (single-bay villa, Californian bungalow and state house) into letterforms. The outcomes were communicated through two sets of artefacts, including process publications, prototypefaces and design guidelines. The processes were then extended into an introductory type design assignment for undergraduate students. This paper reflects on whether interpretative processes can expand existing idea generation options for type designers and act as a learning tool. It also highlights the potential of conceptual metaphor theory as a framework for reviewing and developing design processes.
RTD2015 14 Ways of Being Strands: Exploration of Textile Craft Knots by Hand and Mathematics
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Nithikul Nimkulrat
name: Matthews, Janette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: The paper presents an ongoing collaborative project between a textile practitioner-researcher and a textile practitioner-mathematician that investigates the relationship between mathematical knot theory and knotted textiles. It examines how multiple monochrome textile knots may be characterised using mathematical analysis and how this in turn may facilitate the conceptualisation, design and production of knotted textiles. Mathematical investigation of Nimkulrat’s knotted textile practice through the use of mathematical knot diagrams by Matthews revealed knot properties such as strand start/ end positions and strand active/passive roles which were indiscernible from the work alone. This approach led to a way of visualising knot designs using more than one colour prior to making. Further iterative design experimentation and material properties led to the creation of a new striped pattern and a three-dimensional artefact which will be exhibited. The result of this current research phase illuminates the role of mathematics in making the knotting process explicit. It demonstrates the influence of mathematical analysis on craft practice and the significance of cross-disciplinary collaboration on the development of knotted pattern design.
Model Guided Application for Investigating Particle Number (PN) Emissions in GDI Spark Ignition Engines
Creators: name: Lee, KF
name: Eaves, N
name: Mosbach, S
name: Ooi, D
name: Lai, J
name: Bhave, A
name: Manz, A
name: Geiler, JN
name: Noble, JA
name: Duca, D
name: Focsa, C
Publisher: name: SAE International
Year: 2019
Subjects: 40 Engineering
4017 Mechanical Engineering
4002 Automotive Engineering
13 Climate Action

description:

Model guided application (MGA) combining physico-chemical internal combustion engine simulation with advanced analytics offers a robust framework to develop and test particle number (PN) emissions reduction strategies. The digital engineering workflow presented in this paper integrates the kinetics & SRM Engine Suite with parameter estimation techniques applicable to the simulation of particle formation and dynamics in gasoline direct injection (GDI) spark ignition (SI) engines. The evolution of the particle population characteristics at engine-out and through the sampling system is investigated. The particle population balance model is extended beyond soot to include sulphates and soluble organic fractions (SOF). This particle model is coupled with the gas phase chemistry precursors and is solved using a sectional method. The combustion chamber is divided into a wall zone and a bulk zone and the fuel impingement on the cylinder wall is simulated. The wall zone is responsible for resolving the distribution of equivalence ratios near the wall, a factor that is essential to account for the formation of soot in GDI SI engines. In this work, a stochastic reactor model (SRM) is calibrated to a single-cylinder test engine operated at 12 steady state load-speed operating points. First, the flame propagation model is calibrated using the experimental in-cylinder pressure profiles. Then, the population balance model parameters are calibrated based on the experimental data for particle size distributions from the same operating conditions. Good agreement was obtained for the in-cylinder pressure profiles and gas phase emissions such as NOx. The MGA also employs a reactor network approach to align with the particle sampling measurements procedure, and the influence of dilution ratios and temperature on the PN measurement is investigated. Lastly, the MGA and the measurements procedure are applied to size-resolved chemical characterisation of the emitted particles.
RTD2015 26 The Instrument as the Source of new in new Music
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Andersen, Kristina
name: Gibson, Dan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: Like any traditional instrument, the potential of a new instrument and its possible music can only be revealed through playing. How can we treat technological matter as yet another material from which our notions of possible future instruments can be constructed, intrinsically intertwined with and informed by a practise of performance? Our approach to developing instruments for musical performance strives to not just make technology, but aesthetic and cultural objects. A musical instrument is not an interface and should not be designed as such, instead, instruments are the source of new in new music. We would like to present an instrument design process conducted with a musician as visionary and agenda setter. As the instrument grows and evolves through the various stages, it remains playable and faithful to the desire to make music. The resulting objects are experimental prototypes of technological matter, which allow analysis and meaning to be specified through physical and tactile interaction with the object itself. At RTD2015 we will present a range of these intermediate prototypes and play the finished instrument.
RTD2015 33 Re-knitting: exploring openness through design
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Holroyd, Amy Twigger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: This paper profiles a doctoral research project that investigated the idea of openness within fashion in order to understand the relationships between amateur fashion making, well-being and sustainability. The research was conducted through my practice as a designer-maker of knitwear. The primary design activity involved the development of methods of ‘opening’ and re-knitting existing garments. This activity provided a practical platform through which I was able to explore openness at two, increasingly abstract, levels: first, opening my design practice to share design skills with amateur knitters; and second, opening fashion through amateur making. At the conference I will show a sample garment featuring five different re-knitting ‘treatments’, which I produced while working with the research participants. The research produced an extensive re-knitting resource, and a nuanced understanding of the lived experience of wearing homemade clothes in contemporary British culture. Furthermore, the study generated transferable knowledge relating to the reworking of existing items and ways in which this can be supported; the abilities of amateurs to design for themselves and the conditions which encourage this activity; and the changes in practice and identity which take place as we shift between the roles of designer-maker and meta-designer- maker.
RTD2015 17 Experiential Manufacturing: The Earthquake Shelf
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Selby, Mark
name: Kirk, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: Experiential Manufacturing describes a design led investigation into uncovering the latent values that might exist in data that describes our experiences. By learning from the ways we engage with meaning and memory through material encounters, it aims to create more intrinsic, and aesthetic experiences of biographical data, and to provide meaning beyond the recall of information. The Earthquake Shelf is a designed provocation that implements this approach. It monitors live data feeds for earthquakes at a specified location, and whenever one strikes, the shelf will shake. Depending on the earthquake’s magnitude, the objects placed upon the shelf may fall, being damaged to leave behind material evidence of a remote event. This tangible rendition does not describe a person’s previous earthquake experience, but by evoking it, seeks to allow for the reconstruction of memories, and for their association with ‘new’ objects through the action of the device. This paper describes the design process behind the Earthquake shelf, and reflects upon the experiences of the research participant. From strong visceral connection to the past, to empathetic connections to remote locations, and eventually frustration, the Earthquake Shelf revealed the ways that design might engender a variety of emotions and responses.
RTD2015 32 Synthetic Anatomies, Co-designing desirable 3D printed facial prosthetics
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Guy, Bernard
name: Stevens, Ross
name: Challies, Zach
name: Gillingham, Wayne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: Desirable prosthesis is an early stage investigation formulated to explore the creative potential of 3D scanning and 3D printing in designing alternative facial prosthesis. The loss or disfigurement of a person’s facial feature such as a nose or an ear is typically supplanted with a hand crafted silicon prosthesis designed to replicate the persons face pre surgery. Our research sets out to counter the traditional medically orientated art of camouflaged reconstructive silicon prosthesis and explore the design of 3D printed distinct and desirable prosthesis. Together, the participant, designers and a maxillofacial surgeon explore ways to think about how new prosthesis might fit, feel, empower and be made. In conjunction to this we explore 3D laser scanning and the Objet Connex multi-material 3D printer to build prosthesis which allow greater facial expression and personalisation for diverse social activities. Designing desirable facial prosthesis proposes a shift from localised hand craft to a global digital process where prosthetic clients from around the world can interact, design and print personal prosthesis on ‘state of the art’ machines at a cost well below those hand crafted. Potentially enabling individual expression in performance, fit and aesthetics rather than the predominately ill-fitting attempts at camouflage currently prevalent.
RTD2015 28 Free as in wifi, public as in network: A practice based investigation of networked public space
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Gatehouse, Cally
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: The aim of this research is to ask what ‘free’ and ‘public’ mean in the context of wireless networks. Is it free as in beer? Or free as in speech? Should it be ‘free at the point of access’? Or is it free because we are the product? This practised-based research aims to investigate people’s understanding of free wifi and also looks critically at the design aspects of wifi interface through the design of a cultural probe in the form of a ‘captive portal’. Presenting the project as a work in progress, this paper outlines the insights gained through the design process and also points towards the potential contribution of participatory design methods such as cultural probes to critical design practices.
RTD2015 20 Drones for Foraging
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: DiSalvo, Carl
name: Jenkins, Tom
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: Drones for Foraging is a research through design project that explores the use of hobbyist drones in support of urban foraging. The underlying motivation for this project is to use design as a means of investigating future practices and to provide the basis for near-term innovation with hobbyist drones. Through this project we are developing use-cases that make strong claims around the current and future uses of drone technologies to aid bottom-up food finding, prototyping software and user interfaces for drone navigation, helping build a broader community of practice around these complex issues, and exploring the use of open-source technologies for image capture and analysis. Our work is intended to provide real-world rationales that move drones beyond being military hardware or simply a technological gizmo. Repurposing automation and monitoring technologies as partners in food-finding proposes a collaboration between the ecological, technical, and social that illustrates one way to generate new food infrastructures.
RTD2015 15 Engineering the Book: the relevance of material design to investigations of the picturebook, comic and graphic novel
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Salisbury, Martin
name: Palmer, Becky
name: Manolessou, Katherina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: This ‘project’ is in the form of a three-way dialogue between three artist/designer-academics whose work as practitioners and theorists aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the picturebook and its ever-evolving form, boundaries and status. Through practice-led PhD research, the three are all examining issues around the making of picturebooks. The Research Through Design forum is seen as particularly appropriate for this work, focusing as it does on the designing and making of what is primarily a visual communication form. Most research in the field of children’s picturebooks has hitherto been from the field of children’s literature studies. Martin Salisbury introduces the work of the three contributors, and describes through words and pictures the book which he has written on the subject of the picturebook, and the importance of its own physical form. Becky Palmer outlines and shows her practice-led research, exploring the boundaries between the picturebook and the graphic novel. Katherina Manolessou focuses on the dummy book as a tool for constructing the picturebook story.
RTD2015 31 Investigating Lay Design through Prototyping a Toolkit for Audio Equipment
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Hermans, Guido
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: Post-industrial design challenges the current way
of design and production of consumer products. Leveraging from 3D printing and the potential of layperson involvement in the design process, we investigated how the relation between the professional designer and layperson might change in a democratized design process, where the layperson is an active participant, mediated by toolkit software. In this research through design study we examined this relation by prototyping a toolkit for audio equipment based upon three personas and scenarios that we developed. Consequently three audio products have been made and fabricated using 3D printing. In the second part of this study we staged a series of discussions with design practitioners around the material that we developed. In these interviews they discussed the role of the layperson and the professional designer, accountability of both, the ways in which this toolkit creates accessibility and adaptability and the aesthetics of the product prototypes.The outcome of this study is, besides the objects and the web- based toolkit and a detailed description and discussion of the changing role of the designer and layperson, an insight that revealed the value of a research through design approach. Namely, in this study the material helped the design practitioners to become self-reflective.
RTD2015 21 Encouraging ‘young digital citizenship’ through co-designed, hybrid digi-tools
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Gant, Nick
name: Duggan, Kelly
name: Dean, Tanya
name: Barnes, Josh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: This paper presents findings of a case study, co- design and constructive design research project which explores hybrid digital / physical methods and tools to engage young people in the design and planning of their neighbour- hood. This sits within the context of radical changes in the National Plan- ning Policy Framework (NPPF 2011) and Localism Bill (DCLG 2011), which demand new levels of democratic participation in local decision-making and the collaborative design of place. It also tends to issues and theories of how communities (civic and academic) consider the use of digital / physical objects and processes in helping to cure the disengagement of youth in the local politic and developmental decision-making (Bachen, Raphael, Lynn, McKee & Philippi 2008, 2010 and Carpini 2000, Gant & Duggan 2013). The project explores the co-designing and making of hybrid digital / physical engagement and communication devices resulting in a ‘community techno-tapestry’. The case study demonstrates the communication value of physical digi-tools when seeking to both engage young people in envisioning their future neighbourhood and in mediating their ‘shared vision’ to the community and stakeholders.
Lokale Migrationspolitik in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands: Ausgangspunkte für empirische Forschung
Creators: name: Schammann, Hannes
name: Younso, Christin
name: Meschter, Diana
name: Schammann, Hannes
name: Younso, Christin
name: Meschter, Diana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Ländlich-periphere Regionen
subject: Lokale Integrationspolitik
subject: Kommunen
subject: Migration
subject: Local Migration Policy
subject: Municipalities
subject: Rural areas

description: This working paper 142 outlines the starting point for research on local migration and refugee policy in rural areas in Germany. Reference is made to the multilevel governance of the political and the administrative level, to options for actions at the municipal level concerning different policy fields (housing, employment, education, language, health and mobility) as well as to aspects about participation of refugees. Finally, the working paper summarizes possible important factors for local migration policy.
description: DOI:10.3220/WP1585900191000
title: Analysis of Heat Crack Formation in Brake Discs for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Creators: name: Bilgic Istoc, Sami
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: Heat cracks in brake discs are a frequent problem during development of brake systems for heavy-duty vehicles since their occurrence cannot be predicted. Earlier works have focused on the influence of the brake pad and the brake disc material on heat crack formation. However, these influences vary strongly during series production and no profound causal model explaining the heat crack formation is available. Primary objective of this work is the analysis of influences on heat crack formation in order to explain crack formation by an extended causal model. Accordingly, a series of experiments is conducted with five different brake discs on the dynamometer. While keeping brake pad composition and brake disc material steady, cooling channel geometry of the ventilated brake discs is varied for characterisation of this previously insufficiently examined influence. A profound experimental setup allows for continuous observation of brake disc surface temperature and disc deformation as well as for automatic capturing of lengths of all cracks on the disc after each braking cycle. The experimental series is complemented by material investigations and a Finite Element model. Experimental evaluation is done based upon experimental hypotheses, which in turn are formulated based on the state of science and technology. Key finding is the fact that cooling channel geometry directly and indirectly influences crack formation. On the one hand, cooling channel pins cause extrusions on the friction surface, leading to stress peaks and finally guide crack paths. Consequently, cracks grow faster through radially aligned cooling channel pins in contrast to radially slightly staggered pins. Furthermore, variation of cooling channel pin arrangement in circumferential direction distorts evolution of harmonic waviness of the friction ring and therefore evolution of hotspots. Hotspots cause surface near microstructural transformations and define crack initiation zones. In contradiction to findings of previous studies, local presence of a hotspot is not required for propagation of open cracks. In fact, a convex deformation of the friction ring is sufficient for locally intensified crack growth. Finally, formation of a through-thickness crack reaching the cooling channel causes strongly convex deformation of the friction ring at the respective position, which intensifies load over again. State of science and technology is extended and specified. Experimental methodology and gathered findings on the influence of brake disc geometry on the heat crack formation merits special mention.
RTD2015 11 Walking off the garden path: a design journey
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Edwards, Liz
name: Coulton, Paul
name: Chiasson, Mike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: This paper illustrates various digital-nature artefacts, which emerged from a reflective design journey to enhance and support novel connections to nature in a garden. The research imperative is to explore possibilities for the design of digital technologies for changing people’s interpretation of a National Trust garden, encouraging encounters through the artefacts that take visitors off the garden path and reawaken them to the “presence” of the garden. The process began with an exploration of the criticisms and possibilities of technolo- gies suggested within the writings of Heidegger, Borgmann and Feenberg, which were complemented by insights from natural history writers such as Deakin. These writings guided the design sensibilities for the creation of a collection of interpretation artefacts including Audio Apples, Rhubaphones and a Nature Meditation Egg. Much of the work was situated in a Walled Kitchen Garden managed by National Trust. Research through design complements the research philosophy because it demands space for reflection and conversation, and enables inclusion of different voices within the design journey. The methodology has helped address the question of whether a design lens that begins with criticism of technology can change the way we design, and the artefacts produced.
RTD2015 16 R.O.V. Digital Artwork as Narrative Controller
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Schofield, Guy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: As we consume information about the world, we trust certain visual codes implicitly. From the distinctive fonts on road signs to the hard-edged forms of scientific equipment, these aesthetic memes work through association and reinforcement. A constant negotiation takes place: partly through consensus and partly through centralised systems of authority. This is the truth and it looks like this. These codes and the underlying truth which they purport to convey are mutable, shifting and temporary. As discoveries are made and theories revised and rewritten, the visual tropes associated with them are erased and remade, losing their aura of truth. The copperplate text of Darwin’s journals now has an air of quaintness and naiveté: a feel of the arcane and the alchemical. For us the truth now comes through the sharpness of news footage: the coloured pipework of the Large Hadron Collider, the calm voiceover of a documentary film. R.O.V. is a narrative controller exploring the epistemology of exploration, discovery and cartography. Encased in a rugged hazard-yellow field box the piece appears to be a controller for a remote control submersible. Twin joysticks, switches and knobs allow the user to explore an underwater landscape, displayed on a monitor embedded in the field box. This environment, rendered in 3D graphics, is based on Kampanakis’ 1891 map of Atlantis: itself an attempt to render credible a myth: a centuries-old string of Chinese whispers emanating from a chance remark in Plato. The piece represents both an attempt to use the aesthetic of an interface as a narrative device and to explore layers of truth, representation and misconception.
Supplementary Material for: Guidelines adopted by agile teams in privacy requirements elicitation after the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD) implementation
Creators: name: RE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Privacy Requirements Elicitation
Agile Teams
Techniques
Perception
LGPD

description: Abstract Context: The Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD) implementation has impacted activities carried out by the software development teams. Due to it, developers had to become aware of the existing techniques and tools to carry out privacy requirements elicitation. Objectives: Extending our previous work, we have investigated the actions taken by organizations regarding the LGPD, specifically in software development, considering the perception of agile development teams after two years of the LGPD implementation. In addition, we also investigated the perception of an agile team regarding the practices, techniques, and tools previously cited by practitioners as potential solutions for use in this context, along with techniques already in use in the current context. Methods: We have conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) and selected 36 primary studies. Furthermore, we have conducted a survey with 53 IT practitioners and semi-structured interviews with ten practitioners. Results: The LGPD principles are known by most agile teams and are being implemented by the organizations, although the existing tools to support privacy requirements elicitation are still underused by agile teams. Moreover, agile teams consider that software requirements and software construction are the most impacted areas of knowledge by the LGPD, and most of them use user stories in privacy requirements elicitation. Conclusions: Our findings reveal that agile teams and Brazilian organizations are more concerned with user data privacy issues after the LGPD became effective. However, agile teams still face challenges in privacy requirements elicitation.
RTD2015 23 Data Tourism
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Pennington, Sarah
name: Jarvis, Nadine
name: Cameron, David
name: Boucher, Andy
name: Gaver, William
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: We invite the visitors to RTD 2015 to come on
a walking tour with us. Our ‘tourists’ will be given a recent research device developed by our studio, and asked to try it out together. The ‘artefact’ at stake here is not the device, but the walking tour itself. We suggest that, by trying our devices live and in situ, the tour will supplement other means of dissemination such as publications or exhibitions. This will both allow participants to better understand our field trial methodology, and to experience for themselves a design they might otherwise only encounter in a conference presentation, article, or exhibition.
RTD2015 09 HapticWave: presenting the multiple voices, artefacts and materials of a design research project
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Parkinson, Adam
name: Cameron, David
name: Atau Tanaka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: The HapticWave is a haptic audio waveform display device that has been developed in collaboration with a group of audio engineers and producers with visual impairments for use in real world recording studio environments. This was not a project led by a designer or driven by a design brief: rather, the genesis of the HapticWave emerged from exchange and interaction between actors who brought to the table different practices, experiences, expertise and needs. By presenting the voices in- volved in this practice based research project, we offer a com- prehensive report to retrace step by step the development and deployment of a research prototype.
RTD2015 25 Beyond conversation: Palpating the hybrid materials
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Löwgren, Jonas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: Based on an episode from a design case, it is argued that explorative interaction design with hybrid materials combining physical and digital properties is better conceptualized as palpating the hybrid materials, rather than having a conversation with them. This leads to a proposed design strategy for designers working with hybrid materials: to build prototypes and do material experiments in a way that foregrounds immediate sensate feedback and externalizes responses that are normally not perceivable.
Can Material Passports lower financial barriers for structural steel re-use?
Creators: name: Smeets, A
name: Wang, K
name: Drewniok, MP
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019
Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences
30 Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences
41 Environmental Sciences
12 Responsible Consumption and Production

description: The building and construction sector is responsible for more than half of global steel consumption. Recycling is common practice. Yet, this is an energy intensive process, even when using the best currently available technology. A strategy that avoids energy use for remelting and significantly reduces negative environmental impacts is re-use. Steel element re-use is technically feasible and economically attractive in certain cases. However, re-use rates in the UK remain low. Cost and timing are identified to be among the main barriers for re-use across the structural steel value chain. Re-used steel is estimated to be about 8-10% more expensive than new steel, taking into account all required reconditioning processes. This study investigates how data/information services like BAMB Material Passports can facilitate structural steel re-use in the UK by lowering financial barriers. It shows that relevant data has the potential of reducing costs in sourcing, testing, reconditioning and fabrication, ranging from 150-1000 £/t, depending on the re-use path followed (remanufacture or direct re-use of elements/structures). Key stakeholder groups are stockists and fabricators, which will be both the suppliers and customers of the data. It should be noted that data alone is not sufficient to overcome all barriers. Next to shortening or vertical integration of the supply chain, value redistribution across the chain can align incentives of different stakeholders. Regulations and perceptions (on quality) also play a key role. Finally, reversible design/design for dismantling can be a game changer in the transition towards more structural steel re-use, since it can significantly reduce deconstruction costs.
RTD2015 04 Botanical Fabrication - A research project at the intersection of design, botany and horticulture
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Collet, Carole
name: Foissac, Guillaume
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: ‘Botanical Fabrication’ is an on-going research initiative which investigates how an understanding of botany and horticultural techniques can challenge the design process and lead to alternative sustainable manufacturing or ‘eco-facturing’ tools. This paper presents different phases of the project, from an initial research workshop (2012), to an exhibition-based experiment (Botanical Factory, 2013) and includes current work in progress (Solar Gourd, 2015) so as to articulate a critical analysis of the work to date. In a context where we urgently need to devise new principles to live, manufacture and consume within the ecological capacity of our finite planet, the paper argues for the development of a new framework for slow manufacturing with plant systems. From Darwin’s research into plant movements to our current understanding of plant physics and biomechanics, designers can begin to integrate botanical and horticultural knowledge to play with the environment of plant growth and envision production chains of a new type.
RTD2015 05 Mutate: The Evolution of a Responsive Knit Design System
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Scott, Jane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: This smart textile design research is located at the intersection of biomimicry and responsive material systems. Using the inherent properties of natural fibres and knit structure, the aim is to develop responsive knitted fabrics, which question the conventional material systems necessary for smart textile design. The work is informed by biological models derived from biomimetic research. Underpinning design research is a functional analysis of the responsive capacities of plants. This research is manifested through a framework derived from specific biomimetic models; the pine cone hygromorph, and the hierarchical nature of plant materials. This framework is mapped against the fundamental components of a knitted fabric to establish a hierarchical model of knitting. Using this model a collection of knitted prototypes, constructed exclusively from natural fibres have been developed. These fabrics transform from 2D to 3D in response to changing moisture levels. Whilst potential applications span the textiles sector, the impact of this research is more profound. This work represents a shift in thinking about responsive textiles. Rather than applying complex synthetics or e-textiles, my practice re-examines natural fibres and textile processes. Through the systematic application of a hierarchical model derived from biomimicry, a zero energy, 100% natural, responsive material system has been established.
RTD2015 03 FATBERG: Chapter 1
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Thompson, Mike
name: Hendriks, Arne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: Looking out towards the ocean, FATBERG is easily spotted by the flock of seagulls circling above, swooping down to nibble on its vast store of energy. Only a few square meters of the manmade island hoist themselves above the waves, slowly bobbing up and down, side to side. If you ask the creators of FATBERG why they made it, you might hear: we feel the need to archive our times; or, we’re building a strategic reserve, anticipating difficult times ahead. Whatever the reason for its creation, they sensed its need to exist, as a point of reference of fat’s emergence as the iconic substance of our time. FATBERG is an ongoing critical design research project. A series of public design experiments, exhibitions and discussions, focused on the construction and growth of a floating island of fat – the FATBERG. At Research Through Design 2015 we present observations from FATBERG: Chapter 1, developed in the build up to the project launch at MU (Eindhoven) during Dutch Design Week 2014. The exhibit and accompanying paper focus on the emergence of the FATBERG, illustrating the process and knowledge developed through our experiences of ‘getting to know fat’. Subsequently, we lay claim to the FATBERG as research territory, outlining the scope of our ambition.
RTD2015 02 Design in the Age of Living Technology
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Natsai Audrey Chieza
name: Ward, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: The creative application of emerging biotechnologies in design has begun to influence how we perceive our material world, boldly suggesting a conceivable balance between the industrialised world and ecological conversation. Embedding humanities practitioners in areas of scientific research, and vice versa, could be key to realising aspects of this utopian ideal. Faber Futures is an on-going collaborative research project that asks if designing with living systems offers a better material paradigm for the design landscape. The project aims to combine design thinking and science knowledge to establish the bacteria as component materials that offer sustainable alternatives to polluting industrial processes. Key research explorations into ways of making have inspired the development of a protocol that captures pigment secreted by bacteria to dye textiles. By harnessing bacteria that naturally produce we have established a reliable manufacturing method that permanently transfers a colourfast biopigment without hazardous runoff. Mastering the fundamentals of laboratory protocol has been a vital enabling factor for the designer to draw real-life working prototypes. When merged with the design hand, the creation of these artefacts suggest that scaling production for a hypothetical consumer market can be a factor of design-centred interventions as well as the application of synthetic biology.
RTD2015 07 Making Polychronic Objects
Creators: name: RTD Conference
name: Norris, Jane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: In the light of current debates on the future of making, the Polychronic Object research uses material experimentation to identify possible paradigm shifts. Through making, it maps new media aesthetics, contemporary theories of time and the practical implications of object orientated ontology. The research seeks to understand the implications of a potentially different making space opened up by a triangulation of concepts. Firstly, an aerial cultural viewpoint proposed by new visual theory; secondly, the conceptualisation of time through the act of mapping, crumpling and pleating of material history as an emergence practice; and thirdly, a practical translation of speculative realist approaches to materiality. The knowledge gained from these three positions aids navigation through the practical experience of making as mapping. The polychronic bowls, as the material driver of the research, are an ongoing series of small bowls that combine materials from different historical eras. They are hand produced as one off experiments, intended to physically develop the ideas in the research facilitating tactile interaction with real objects. This enquiry uses research-through-making. It emphasises learning through mapping potential material territories, as a dynamic description rather than a static definition. It offers designer-makers and consumers other possibilities, post mass manufacturing.
Low Cost Obstacle Avoidance Robot
Creators: name: Roy, Sahadev
name: Hanumanta, Vivek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Computer Engineering

description: This paper deals with a low cost solution to obstacle avoidance for a mobile robot. This paper also presents a dynamic steering algorithm which ensures that the robot doesn't have to stop in front of an obstacle which allows robot to navigate smoothly in an unknown environment, avoiding collisions. The obstacle avoidance strategy has been described. Obstacle avoidance strategy and working of robot is greatly dependent on the detection of obstacles by sensors and corresponding response of robot. Working principle of sensors, limitation of their use and obstacle avoidance algorithm has been discussed in detail.
Evaluation als modernes Ritual
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christine
Publisher: name: Münster : LitVerlag
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Critical Theory
subject: Evaluation
subject: Sociology of Education
subject: Kritische Theorie
subject: Bildungssoziologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::100 | Philosophie

description: Fast alles muss heute evaluiert werden. Was aber ist von diesem Beobachtungsboom zu halten? Diese Studie zeigt am Beispiel der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im Bildungswesen, wie fragwürdige Technik-Verheißungen wissenschaftliche Rituale zu ihrer Überprüfung nach sich ziehen. Evaluation verspricht rationale Kontrolle durch entpersönlichte Autorität - was davon bleibt, entlarvt diese qualitative Untersuchung mit den Mitteln kritischer Sozialforschung. Kleines wissenssoziologisches Kriminalstück!
Bandwidth Improvement in BPF using Microstrip Couple lines
Creators: name: Roy, Sahadev
name: Tasher Ali Sheikh
name: Janmoni Borah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Computational Physics
Education

description: This paper comprises a brief idea related to designing of a bandpass filter (BPF) using microstrip parallel coupled line structure and some calculations based on distributed components like inductors and capacitors. As Bandpass filters play a significant role in wireless communication systems related to transmitted and received signals, so filtering at a certain center frequency with a specific bandwidth is a great concern. The center frequency with 5.84GHz is mainly used in Wi4 (Worldwide interoperability version-4) for highspeed wireless broadband solution that is configured to transport data, voice, and IP video which requires more bandwidth. So designing a filter of such property is our concern. The design filter consists of three sections: two coupled lines separated by a non-uniform line resonator. The layout is designed to have a centre frequency at 5.84GHz and bandwidth of 0.0745 and also the length of each line is tuned such that the impedance of filter is 50Ω. The paper pres
Constraints Analysis for Minimization of Multiple Inputs Logic Programming
Creators: name: Roy, Sahadev
name: Bhunia, Chandan Tilak
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Algebra
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Software
subject: Computation Theory and Mathematics
subject: Theoretical Computer Science
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: Minimization of logic functions by computer programs are considered traditionally to be difficult and tedious as the incorporation of full logic negation tends to super-exponential time complexity. The paper presents constrains for minimization of logic circuits. Using these analysis minimized sum of products terms may be generating from any given sum of product terms of multiple input variables. For a new algorithm for minimization using computer programming must be overcome these problem presented. We also discuss the scope heuristic minimization technique over the exact minimization technique.
Resource orchestration for vehicular ad hoc networks in a multi-service environment
Creators: name: Xhoxhi, Edmir
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Connected Automated Vehicles
subject: Maneuver Coordination
subject: Resource Orchestration
subject: Vernetzte automatisierte Fahrzeuge
subject: Manöverkoordination
subject: Ressourcenorchestrierung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: Vehicles equipped with ad hoc connectivity features have recently entered the European market. With these vehicles already on the roads, market penetration rates are soon anticipated to reach double digits, potentially nearing mass adoption. As vehicle automation level advances, the requirements for communication applications become increasingly stringent. However, the limited bandwidth of communication channels and the unpredictability of transmissions in wireless ad hoc networks pose significant challenges for future applications. The development of Connected Automated Vehicles creates demand for Vehicle-to-Everything services, which enable these vehicles to share and negotiate their trajectories. Meanwhile, the introduction of multiple services responsible for maneuver coordination presents further challenges in channel resource orchestration and distribution. Services that satisfy application requirements must be developed with efficient resource allocation in mind. This work identifies issues with the current architecture and the scarcity of channel resources. Initially, it proposes improvements to the state-of-the-art Maneuver Coordination Service, as a representative of advanced use cases, by including a message generation algorithm for the Maneuver Coordination Message (MCM). This algorithm utilizes surrounding information and the kinematic status of the ego-vehicle. The results show increased tracking accuracy while maintaining low channel congestion. Additionally, the issues of multiple maneuver services coexisting, such as decision divergence, priority preservation, and redundancy mitigation, have been identified. An enhancement to the MCM format has been proposed to address these issues. Finally, an application-aware resource orchestration algorithm has been proposed and compared with content-agnostic algorithms, such as the Decentralized Congestion Control (DCC). By taking a holistic approach, the results in this thesis demonstrate that application requirements can be better satisfied by considering the value that each specific message can contribute. Compared with existing methods, the resource orchestration approach presented here shows superior results in terms of maneuver coordination success and increased awareness of connected vehicles. To summarize, the findings provided in this thesis offer a precise foundation for resource orchestration in maneuver coordination scenarios and overall resource distribution in vehicular ad hoc networks.
IN03128 In̆dikaṭusǟya Copper Plaque Inscriptions - Paranavitana (1939)
Creators: name: Paranavitana, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03128
Epigraphia Zeylanica
In̆dikaṭusǟya

description: IN03128 In̆dikaṭusǟya Copper Plaque Inscriptions - Transcript and Translation Source: Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 30. A Note on the In̆dikaṭusǟya Copper Plaques,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 238–242.