Co-Creating Service Concepts for the Built Environment Based on the End-User’s Daily Activities Analysis: KTH Live-in-Lab Explorative Case Study

The purpose of this study is to synthesize the widely used theories about co-creation from two main perspectives: co-creation as an innovation process and co-creation as a design process applied to the service concept design in the built environment context. The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry do not have much application of end-user-oriented service design in general, especially with intensive co-creation processes. To facilitate such a process, we are using a living lab environment as a laboratorial model of the real built environment, but with the opportunity to have access to the end-users and different types of stakeholders. Using the KTH Live-in-Lab explorative case study, we were able to discuss the concept of co-creation by distinguishing between co-creation as innovation and co-creation as a design process, facilitating the process of co-creation of service concepts for the proposed built environment including methods from both perspectives: innovation and design, and evaluating the process of service concepts co-creation for the built environment from the point of innovation, knowledge transfer, sustainability, and user experience.

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Space–time fixity and flexibility of daily activities and the built environment: A case study of different types of communities in Beijing suburbs

Journal of Transport Geography ◽

10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.06.014 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 90-99 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Yue Shen ◽

Yanwei Chai ◽

Mei-Po Kwan

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Space Time ◽

Daily Activities ◽

Different Types

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Digital Technologies for Analysis of Restoration of Serial Numbers

Advanced Engineering Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/aef.42.63 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 63-68

Author(s):

Mihai Ursu ◽

Gabriel Benga

Keyword(s):

Digital Technologies ◽

Daily Activities ◽

Serial Number ◽

Production Site ◽

Different Types

In daily activities, serial numbers represent one way to range finished products of different types of production fields and also tracking those objects during their lifetime – ever since their exit of the production site until their recycling. In this paper are presented several types of imprinting techniques as well as a case study for restoration of a modified serial number.

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The Italian Case of Lecco Innovation Living Lab: Stakeholders’ Needs and Activities to Contribute to the Technological Innovation Process in Healthcare

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su122410266 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (24) ◽

pp. 10266

Author(s):

Laura Marone ◽

Rossella Onofrio ◽

Cristina Masella

Keyword(s):

Technological Innovation ◽

Single Case ◽

Innovation Process ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Italian Case ◽

Complex Process ◽

Living Lab ◽

Domain Specific Knowledge ◽

Living Labs

Healthcare technological innovation is a very complex process in which different actors interact with each other, creating a large number of interconnections and synergies in the design of technological innovations. Despite the increasing number of living labs (LLs) in healthcare, building and maintaining LLs for technological innovation in healthcare is challenging. Collaboration with stakeholders remains an issue of major concern in healthcare. The purpose of this paper is to identify stakeholders’ needs in building an LL in healthcare and to plan activities to foster the innovation process. The paper is based on an exploratory single case study investigating an Italian LL. Eight stakeholders’ needs were identified and validated. Specific activities were identified as improving the innovation process in terms of the stakeholders’ needs. The study contributes to the development of domain-specific knowledge and, as such, to the fostering of studies on and the implementation of LLs in healthcare.

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Measurable Mistakes in Architecture the Effect of Designer's Experience on the Propagation of Mistakes in Architectural Design - Residential Buildings in Al Sulaymaniyah City as a Case Study

Journal of Engineering ◽

10.31026/j.eng.2021.01.07 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 89-111

Author(s):

Wrya Sabir Abdullah ◽

Amjad Muhammad Ali

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Architectural Design ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Research Problem ◽

Influential Factor ◽

Different Types ◽

Design Values ◽

The Difference ◽

Contemporary Architecture

The importance of physical and nonphysical architectural design values made architectural designers need good experience to be experts of architectural values reasonably without neglecting any value in the design process. The importance of such values made that ignoring any values and mistakes occurs in the design process. Simultaneously, architectural designers' different nature and the difference in their experiences are causing different understandings of the design values, thus causing architectural mistakes. The research problem appears from the randomly propagating of mistakes in contemporary architecture, which is about to become a phenomenon in Al Sulaymaniyah city. The research aims to find the main reasons and influences of making architectural mistakes and propagating such mistakes in the contemporary architectural design depending on randomly selected samples. The study took the factor of "Architectural Designers' Experience" as an influential factor in avoiding the propagation of architectural mistakes. To see architectural mistakes in real existing cases, the research took some of the different types of residential buildings in Al Sulaymaniyah city designed during (2000-2010) as case study to show architects' architectural mistakes in residential buildings

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Distributed Ship Service Systems Architecture in The Early Stages of Designing Physically Large and Complex Vessels: The Submarine Case

The International Journal of Maritime Engineering ◽

10.5750/ijme.v163ia2.755 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 163 (A2) ◽

Author(s):

M H Mukti ◽

R J Pawling ◽

D J Andrews

Keyword(s):

Concept Design ◽

Systems Architecture ◽

Computer Tools ◽

Ongoing Work ◽

Different Types ◽

University College London ◽

The Impact ◽

Crucial Set ◽

Synthesis Approach

In the initial sizing of complex vessels, where recourse to type ship design can be overly restrictive, one crucial set of design features has traditionally been poorly addressed. This is the estimation of the weight and space demands of the various Distributed Ship Services Systems (DS3), which include different types of commodity services beyond those primarily associated with the ship propulsion system. In general, naval vessels are typified by extensive and densely engineered DS3, with the modern naval submarine being at the extreme of dense outfitting. Despite this, the ability for the concept designer to consider the impact of different configurations for the DS3 arrangements has not been readily addressed in concept design. This paper describes ongoing work at University College London (UCL) to develop a novel DS3 synthesis approach utilising computer tools, such as Paramarine™, MATLAB®, and CPLEX®, which provide the concept designer with a quantitative network-based evaluation to enable DS3 space and weight inputs early in the design process. The results of applying the approach to a conventional submarine case study indicate quantitative insights into early DS3 sizing can be obtained. The paper concludes with likely developments in concluding the research study.

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Design for Facility Over the Internet: A Case Study With Automotive Connecting Rod Designs

Volume 1: 21st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference ◽

10.1115/detc2001/cie-21289 ◽

2001 ◽

Author(s):

Khurshid A. Qureshi ◽

Kazuhiro Saitou

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Parametric Design ◽

Complete System ◽

Design Stage ◽

The Internet ◽

Concept Design ◽

Connecting Rod ◽

Manufacturing Facility ◽

Manufacturing Facilities

Abstract This paper introduces a new methodology called ‘Design for Facility over Internet (DFF)’. This methodology provides an Internet-based environment for designers to perform manufacturability analysis of product designs with respect to the capabilities of existing manufacturing facilities, upfront into the design process. In the current work, only fixturing (machining datums) capabilities of a manufacturing facility are considered. A prototype DFF system for an automotive connecting rod, is developed. The system enables the designers to design the connecting rods by considering the fixturing (datums) capabilities of existing manufacturing facilities upfront at the concept design stage. The complete system implementation will also enable the manufacturers of connecting rods to create and update the database of their capabilities over the Internet. The DFF system analyzes the parametric design with respect to the fixturing capabilities and generates suggestions for a designer, to modify his design if required, to fit the capabilities of specified facilities.

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Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences

Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Effective Project Management - Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9993-7.ch014 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 237-254

Author(s):

António Pesqueira ◽

Maria José Sousa

Keyword(s):

Life Sciences ◽

Innovation Process ◽

Competitive Intelligence ◽

The Creation ◽

Innovation Knowledge

This chapter analyzes innovation, knowledge, and competitive intelligence (CI). Besides these concepts, the focus will be on the role of innovation profiles. The innovation profiles include the creation, capture, organization, and integration of knowledge into the innovation process. The CI variable will be analyzed, demonstrating the potential for creating a context of competition for companies. A case study is presented about the pharmaceutical (pharma) industry with the application of the concepts of competitive intelligence, knowledge, and innovation to a real context.

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Teaching Co-Design to Promote Students’ Community Engagement

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20184103002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 03002

Author(s):

Wiryono Raharjo

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Community Engagement ◽

Design Process ◽

Architectural Design ◽

Design Approach ◽

Design Studio ◽

Ordinary People ◽

Architectural Design Studio ◽

Case Study Methods

The current landscape of architectural education has been predominantly based on studio teaching the mode of teaching that can be traced back in the age of French L’Ecole des Beaux Arts. It was during the Beaux Arts era that studio teaching and jury system first deve-loped, and it continues today. The approach is characterized by the use of atelier (studio) for coaching, where juniors learn from seniors and competition among students are the norm. The approach also presumes that architects are the provider of design services who think that they are more competent than their clients in solving the design problem; which is a paradox to the fact that most parts of the built environment anywhere in the world are the creation of ordinary people. In other words, ordinary people can contribute significantly to the decision making within the architectural design process. They can actually be treated as a partner of architects in designing their building, which is what Co-Design all about. This paper aims to describe the introduction of Co-Design approach in architectural design studio teaching at Universitas Islam Indonesia. The research questions this paper intends to respond: to what extent could Co-Design be adopted in architectural design teaching? What lessons have the students learned from their experience in involving people in the urban design process? The case study methods employed in this research, through which author looks at the Co- Design teaching delivery in the Architectural Design Studio 7 in the past three years. While overall result of the study shows that time limitation has constrained the students’ community engagement, most cases examined reveal that introduction of Co-Design approach has paved the way for students to understand how ordinary people contribute to the shaping of the urban built environment.

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The role of perceived environment, neighbourhood characteristics, and attitudes in walking behaviour: evidence from a rapidly developing city in China

Transportation ◽

10.1007/s11116-019-10062-2 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eric T. H. Chan ◽

Tim Schwanen ◽

David Banister

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Interaction Effects ◽

Regression Analyses ◽

Neighbourhood Environment ◽

Perceived Environment ◽

Neighbourhood Level ◽

Different Types ◽

Neighbourhood Characteristics

Abstract The associations between objective and subjective dimensions of the built environment and walking behaviour have been examined extensively in existing studies. However, the interaction effects of those dimensions of the built environment on walking behaviour are understudied and may be more complex than hitherto suggested. Apart from the subjective dimensions of the built environment, walking attitudes also play a role in moderating these relationships. This paper investigates the independent and joint effects of objective neighbourhood characteristics, people’s perceptions of the neighbourhood environment, and walking attitudes on the frequency of walking by using Shenzhen as a case study. Since those effects may vary across different kinds of walking trips, the analysis looks separately at three major types of walking at the neighbourhood level—walking for work/school, walking for leisure/recreation, and walking for household responsibilities. Logistic regression analyses confirm that the correlates of people’s walking frequency vary considerably among different types of walking. Statistically significant interaction effects of objective neighbourhood characteristics and perceived environment are found. The results suggest that positive perceptions of the environment can compensate for the effect that low objective walkability of neighbourhoods has on people’s walking frequency. When seeking to encouraging walking at the neighbourhood level, policymakers should not only concentrate on improving objective neighbourhood characteristics but also consider people’s perception of the neighbourhood environment and their attitudes towards walking.

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