Lost In Translation

2008 ◽  
pp. 366-379
Author(s):  
Eddy Boot ◽  
Jon Nelson ◽  
Daniela De Faveri
Keyword(s):  
Validation Studies ◽  
Development Process ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Instructional Software ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Design Languages ◽  
Design Documents ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
Precise Expression

Developing modern instructional software has become very complex. As a result, the communication between instructional designers and other stakeholders in the development process is becoming increasingly important. However, due to differences in background, focus, and tools among ISD stakeholders instructional designers lack the means to provide reasonably unequivocal design documentation for these stakeholders. These differences in stakeholders create a context where the design documents produced are not sufficiently related to the specific needs of the stakeholders, in terms of meaningful organization and differentiation of level of detail. This problem is complicated by the lack of shared design languages. These problems prevent precise expression of design information. The 3D-model is introduced to support instructional designers to stratify, elaborate, and formalize design documents, even if design languages are hardly shared between designers and other stakeholders. Two validation studies show that the 3D-model contributes to a better information transition between instructional designers and software producers—one of the stakeholders in the development process.

Lost In Translation

2011 ◽  
pp. 1793-1805
Author(s):  
Eddy Boot ◽  
Jon Nelson ◽  
Daniela De Faveri
Keyword(s):  
Validation Studies ◽  
Development Process ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Instructional Software ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Design Languages ◽  
Design Documents ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
Precise Expression

Developing modern instructional software has become very complex. As a result, the communication between instructional designers and other stakeholders in the development process is becoming increasingly important. However, due to differences in background, focus, and tools among ISD stakeholders instructional designers lack the means to provide reasonably unequivocal design documentation for these stakeholders. These differences in stakeholders create a context where the design documents produced are not sufficiently related to the specific needs of the stakeholders, in terms of meaningful organization and differentiation of level of detail. This problem is complicated by the lack of shared design languages. These problems prevent precise expression of design information. The 3D-model is introduced to support instructional designers to stratify, elaborate, and formalize design documents, even if design languages are hardly shared between designers and other stakeholders. Two validation studies show that the 3D-model contributes to a better information transition between instructional designers and software producers—one of the stakeholders in the development process.

Supporting Decision Making in Using Design Languages for Learning Designs and Learning Objects

2011 ◽  
pp. 851-868
Author(s):  
Eddy Boot ◽  
Luca Botturi ◽  
Andrew S. Gibbons ◽  
Todd Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Instructional Software ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Design Task ◽  
Levels Of Detail ◽  
Design Languages ◽  
Different Levels

In developing modern instructional software, learning designs are used to formalize descriptions of roles, activities, constraints, and several other instructional design aspects and learning objects are used to implement those learning designs in instructional software. Central in both constructs is the use of design languages to support structuring a design task and conceiving solutions. Due to a lack of standardized design languages that are shared between designers, producers, and other stakeholders, the application of learning designs and learning objects is often unsatisfactory for three reasons: (a) different instructional and technical structures are often not meaningfully organized; (b) different levels of detail are mixed together; and (c) different expressions are used in a nonstandardized manner. A decision model is introduced—the 3D-model—that supports better selection and application of design languages. Two studies show that the 3D-model contributes to a better information transition between instructional designers and software producers.

Advances in standardizing and validating research techniques for pathogen monitoring in water

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
K. Connell ◽  
M. Pope ◽  
K. Miller ◽  
J. Scheller ◽  
J. Pulz
Keyword(s):  
Validation Studies ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
Microbiological Method ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Method Performance ◽  
Target Analytes ◽  
Interlaboratory Validation ◽  
Quality Control Criteria ◽  
Control Criteria

Designing and conducting standardized microbiological method interlaboratory validation studies is challenging because most methods are manual, rather than instrument-based, and results from the methods are typically subjective. Determinations of method recovery, in particular, are problematic, due to difficulties in assessing the true spike amount. The standardization and validation process used for the seven most recent USEPA 1600-series pathogen monitoring methods has begun to address these challenges. A staged development process was used to ensure that methods were adequately tested and standardized before resources were dedicated to interlaboratory validation. The interlaboratory validation studies for USEPA Method 1622, for Cryptosporidium, USEPA Method 1601 for coliphage, and USEPA Method 1605 for Aeromonas assessed method performance using different approaches, due the differences in the nature of the target analytes and the data quality needs of each study. However, the use of enumerated spikes in all of the studies allowed method recovery and precision to be assessed, and also provided the data needed to establish quantitative quality control criteria for the methods.

scholarly journals Using AutomationML and Graph-Based Design Languages for Automatic Generation of Digital Twins of Cyber-Physical Systems

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Beisheim ◽  
Markus Kiesel ◽  
Markus Linde ◽  
Tobias Ott
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Production Equipment ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Process Simulations ◽  
Design Languages

The interdisciplinary development of smart factories and cyber-physical systems CPS shows the weaknesses of classical development methods. For example, the communication of the interdisciplinary participants in the development process of CPS is difficult due to a lack of cross-domain language comprehension. At the same time, the functional complexity of the systems to be developed increases and they act operationally as independent CPSs. And it is not only the product that needs to be developed, but also the manufacturing processes are complex. The use of graph-based design languages offers a technical solution to these challenges. The UML-based structures offer a cross-domain language understanding for all those involved in the interdisciplinary development process. Simulations are required for the rapid and successful development of new products. Depending on the functional scope, graphical simulations of the production equipment are used to simulate the manufacturing processes as a digital factory or a virtual commissioning simulation. Due to the high number of functional changes during the development process, it makes sense to automatically generate the simulation modelling as digital twins of the products or means of production from the graph-based design languages. The paper describes how digital twins are automatically generated using AutomationML according to the Reference Architecture Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0) or the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA).

The Distance Education Phenomena

2015 ◽  
pp. 112-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Community Of Learners ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Instructional Facilitator

The Instructional Design field has been significantly impacted by the distance education phenomena. With the strengthening of the distance education presence, more focus has been framed around concerns related to interactive activities that built upon the importance of communications and building relationships between the course information, the learners, the instructional facilitator, and the larger community wherein the information may be more fully framed. The vast and ever-expanding distance education phenomena is moving beyond the traditional “comfort zone” of procedural Instructional Design expectations, towards a more holistic and innovative thoughtful multimedia-supported design and development process wherein the Instructional Designers must be able to engage more fully in the socio-engagement of the learner within a multimedia-supported global community of learners. This chapter describes the developments of distance education from the perspective of instructional designers.

scholarly journals APPLICATIONS OF MACRO PHOTOGRAMMETRY IN ARCHAEOLOGY

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B5 ◽  
pp. 263-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gajski ◽  
A. Solter ◽  
M. Gašparovic
Keyword(s):  
3D Model ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
The Self ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Space Resolution ◽  
Calibration Methods ◽  
Laser Scanners ◽  
High Level ◽  
Sufficient Space

Many valuable archaeological artefacts have the size of a few centimetres or less. The production of relevant documentation of such artefacts is mainly limited to subjective interpretation and manual drawing techniques using a magnifier. Most of the laser scanners available for the archaeological purposes cannot reach sufficient space resolution to gather all relevant features of the artefact, such as the shape, the relief, the texture and any damage present. Digital photogrammetric techniques make measuring with high accuracy possible and such techniques can be used to produce the relevant archaeometric documentation with a high level of detail. The approaches for shooting a good macro photograph (in the photogrammetric sense) will be explored and discussed as well as the design of a calibration test-field and the self-calibration methods suitable for macro photogrammetry. Finally, the method will be tested by producing a photorealistic 3D-model of an ancient figurine.

scholarly journals MECANISMO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO LIMPO: INSTRUMENTO EM PROL DA GERAÇÃO DE TECNOLOGIAS MAIS LIMPAS NO BRASIL?DOI: 10.5773/rgsa.v4i3.331

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antônio Costa Silva Júnior ◽  
Luana das Graças Queiroz de Farias ◽  
Andrea Cardoso Ventura ◽  
José Célio Silveira Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Clean Development Mechanism ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Bibliographical Survey ◽  
Design Documents ◽  
Cleaner Technology ◽  
Development Mechanism

Este artigo avalia a contribuição de 75 projetos de Mecanismo de Desenvolvimento Limpo (MDL) para a promoção de tecnologias mais limpas no Brasil. A metodologia utilizada foi a revisão da literatura especializada e análise de conteúdo de Documentos de Concepção de Projeto (DCP). Os dados obtidos revelaram que os projetos de MDL contribuem, de forma ainda incipiente para a promoção de tecnologias mais limpas no Brasil, visto que apenas 4% dos projetos de MDL analisados relataram a criação de patentes e inovação durante o processo de desenvolvimento da tecnologia. Ademais, apenas 21% dos projetos analisados caracterizaram-se pela geração de uma tecnologia mais limpa focada na redução da poluição de Gases do Efeito Estufa (GEE) na fonte. Conclui-se que o MDL no Brasil ainda está distante do seu propósito de estimular um modelo de desenvolvimento mais limpo através da cooperação entre países industrializados e em desenvolvimento. Palavras-chave:Mecanismo de Desenvolvimento Limpo (MDL); tecnologias mais Limpas; Gases do Efeito Estufa (GEE), Brasil ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the contribution of 75 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects for cleaner technologies promotion in Brazil. Secondary data acquired from Project Design Documents (PDD) were analyzed using the bibliographical survey of specialized literature. It was verified that such contribution was incipient, as only 4% of the projects reported the creation of patents and of innovation during the technology development process. Just 21% of them were characterized by the generation of cleaner technology aimed at reducing Greenhouse Gases (GHG) pollution at source. In conclusion, CDM projects in Brazil were considered to be distant from encouraging a cleaner model of development through cooperation between industrialized and developing countries. Keywords: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); Cleaner Technology; Greenhouse Gases (GHG); Brazil.

scholarly journals Medical Starts with ME

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (05) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Jean Thilmany
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Device Design ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Lost In Translation

This article discusses the importance of mechanical engineers and their various roles in projects. Experts in the industry agree that mechanical engineers are integral to device design regardless of its complexity. The engineers work with a number of people from different backgrounds—physicians, marketers, and engineers of other disciplines—during the development process and come up with creative solutions that make many advances in medical treatment possible. Mechanical engineers are often creating the practical foundation on which a project rests to develop a medical device. Students studying to be mechanical engineers can expect the medical device business to offer plenty of opportunity in the years ahead, according to practitioners in the field. Engineers are not only involved in design, they also help drive development of the entire device these days. Experts believe that engineers will be stronger players if they can truly hear a doctor or patients’ problems and design for them; otherwise, a lot gets lost in translation.

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