Usability Testing under Time-Pressure in Design Practice Case Study

1999 ◽  
pp. 119-129
Keyword(s):  
Time Pressure ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Design Practice

Research on the Green Urban Morphology Based on BIM - A Case Study on the Urban Design in Nanhe City

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Ping Shu ◽  
Jun Xu ◽  
Li Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Building Information Model ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Spatial Morphology

Based on theoretical studies of the urban spatial morphology, this paper introduces advanced concepts and methods of BIM (Building Information Model) into the urban design in Nanhe City ,and then respectively makes innovations of the urban design practice supported by BIM technology in the process of design, optimization and implementation of the program, attempting to explore BIM-based design patterns of the urban spatial morphology to make the traditional urban design process more rational and scientific, to expect to reach the green and sustainable urban spatial morphology.

Suction anchor geotechnical design practice: A case study

2015 ◽  
pp. 283-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Kennedy ◽  
J Oliphant ◽  
A Maconochie ◽  
B Stuyts ◽  
D Cathie
Keyword(s):  
Design Practice ◽  
Geotechnical Design

scholarly journals Numerical Evaluation of Slender Glass Panel with Complex Geometry Subjected to Static Load and Soft-body Impact

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Kozłowski
Keyword(s):  
Static Load ◽  
Complex Geometry ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Glass Panel ◽  
Soft Body ◽  
In Situ Experiments ◽  
Glass Panels ◽  
Current Standards

Current standards and glass codes of design practice require that glazing used in architectural applications has to be resistant to, in addition to typical loads, also accidental events, in particular human impact, without showing damage that is disproportionate to the original cause. A case study was performed of an indoor glass lantern in a public building made from slender two-side supported glass panels with a complex geometry (36 ventilation holes). The paper provides structural assessments and results of in-situ experiments including static loading and soft body impact. Results from numerical simulations of impact loading on the glass panels complementing the experimental results are also presented.

scholarly journals Understanding Human Scale and the Importance of its Relationship with Enclosure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Austin H. Mackesy-Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Design Case Study ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
Scale Design ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The main objective of the research is to better understand the concept of human scale and the role that it has to play in the design of our urban environments. The need for a clearer, less ambiguous understanding of human scale is identified as a result of its poor definition and numerous manifestations across a multitude of literature. Human scale is an important part of design that flourished particularly in the middle ages, but has largely been neglected in the industrial and technological ages. Its remergence comes with the return of consideration for the comfort of people. Yet we cannot successfully apply a concept we do not wholly understand. Human scale is therefore redefined as a collective concept that embodies the multitude of existing definitions and treats them as aspects of a larger theory. As a broader but more comprehensive definition it better facilitates the identification and exploration of relationships with what are currently treated as separate urban design objectives, such as enclosure, in an endeavour to better understand the influence of human scale. The design case study proposes a design that tests the relationship between enclosure and human scale. A large site is chosen to display how human scale operates at urban, as well as architectural and detailed levels. Through aspiring to achieve a thorough human scale design, without any exclusive emphasis on enclosure, the process and the outcome still reveal that the theoretical relationship identified in the research (that aspects of human scale foster the formation of enclosure) is unavoidable in design practice. Enclosure simply results as a consequence of thorough human scale design. The research suggests that many urban design objectives may fall under human scale's sphere of influence meaning it is not a singular concept, but an ethic of design that has many desireable consequences. While the idealistic nature of the design may be unrealistic to achieve at present, it highlights the incompatibilities with contemporary approaches and succeeds in generating discussion.</p>

scholarly journals Double (Hunch) Negative: Blending Practice/Research/Teaching and the Critical Imagination

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Strain ◽  
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Jose L.S. Gamez ◽  
Shai Yeshayahu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Present Design ◽  
Balance Of Forces ◽  
Continuous Field

In Duckler’s account of Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, the viewer becomes a part of the overall experience of scale, of site, and the knowledge of place. In a sense, perception, feeling, and scale hold a very complex relationship in the eye of the participant, and this brings Heizer’s earthwork closer to architecture than one might expect. This correlation between experience, scale perception, and placemaking can enrich the educational experience, thereby affecting the balance of forces that exist between academia, practice, and research. At least, that is the hunch that drew us to the 2019 Antwerp ACSA/EAAE International Teacher Conference. By discussing how a blend-ed set of practices (practice/teaching/research) enabled a mutually reinforcing dialog between the making of ideas, buildings, and landscapes, this paper will present design practice and the practice of design education as inter-related activities. Through our collaborative efforts, we have worked to make the space of inquiry a continuous field that reaches across conventional divisions between the academy and practice. Within this field, research helps ground “the hunch” while “the hunch” tempers the formality of research.Our hunch is this: that a case study of a recent design think-tank will illustrate how we see:• expertise developed in the academic environment can be incorporated into an inquisitive professional design practice;• the studio (both academic and professional) as a thinker space that should not follow a commercial agenda nor should it become a space absent of craft and speculation, urge and fascination, skill and imagination, criticality and creativity, individual formation and social consciousness.

Usability Testing for Telemedicine Systems: A Methodology and Case Study

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 792-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah P. Birkmire-Peters ◽  
Leslie A. Whitaker ◽  
Leslie J. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Store And Forward ◽  
Three Components

This paper presents the conceptual framework and methodology that has been developed to perform usability evaluations of commercially available equipment for use in telemedicine applications. Specifically, the three components of the evaluation methodology, namely, technical acceptability, operational effectiveness, and clinical appropriateness, are described. This methodology was used to evaluate commercially available video-otoscope systems for use in a store-and-forward teleconsultation project.

A Practitioner’s Approach to Collaborative Usability Testing

2013 ◽  
pp. 117-144
Author(s):  
Julie Buelow
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
The Public

The purpose of this case study is to outline a methodology for collaborative usability testing developed in a local government setting where subject matter experts (SMEs), content owners, stakeholders, IT professionals and the public are engaged in the design and development of public sector websites.

A Research of Ecological Farmhouse Design Based on the Sustainable Development Needs

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Jiangyan Lu ◽  
Yushuai Lang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Design Requirements

To summarize the problems and needs of the current rural life, identify the pathway that suits the sustainable development of rural areas, and propose the design concept and method that meet the current rural ecological design requirements. Use the organized research approaches. This chapter makes a case study of Nanma Village, provides the theoretical and design practice reference for the rural sustainable development in China, and establishes the knowledge and methodology system that meets the requirements of rural sustainable development. This chapter proposes the design concept and method in line with the current requirements of rural ecological design, suggests that the current village design should be adapted to “local conditions,” and indicates that the harmonious development between human and environment will be a new possible direction for the rural sustainable development and design in future.

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