SIG Workshops

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Computational Design Synthesis SIG

Tuesday: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: Packard 204
Co-Chairs: Kristina Shea, Matthew Ira Campbell

Introduction The purpose of the Computational Design Synthesis SIG, established in 2009, is to bring together international researchers focused on computational, formal, and algorithmic approaches to supporting design synthesis. The SIG provides a means for researchers and industry to network, exchange ideas, share expertise and find synergies in order to advance fundamental research, tool development and integration of methods in industry. This workshop is the first workshop of the CDS SIG and will serve as the kick-off for building an international and multidisciplinary community of researchers and practice in the area. The workshop is open to all ICED ’09 conference participants.

SIG Focus Synthesis is a fundamental activity in engineering design and is at the heart of the early and conceptual phases. The synthesis process involves task formulation, design representation, composition, design generation, design interpretation and re-interpretation, design evaluation, search and optimization. The SIG is multi-disciplinary including researchers from mechanical engineering, architecture, industrial design, and civil engineering as well as a range of industry sectors related to these disciplines. The following research topics, all within the context of supporting design synthesis, are considered: computational synthesis, generative design, design automation, computational design representations for synthesis, engineering and design grammars, emergence, knowledge-based approaches, design spaces, computational problem solving, design optimization and search, machine-learning based approaches, software prototype and tool development, and integration of computational synthesis tools in design processes.

9:00	Introduction to SIG
	Defining Computational Design Synthesis: Past and Future Perspectives
9:35	Guest Speaker – Dr. Jeff Heisserman, Computer Aided Engineering, The Boeing Company – “Industry Perspective on CDS”
	Gallery of Computationally Synthesized Results (workshop participants)
10:45	Coffee Break
11:00	Guest Speaker – Dr. John Koza, Stanford University – “Genetic Programming in CDS”
	Gallery of Computationally Synthesized Results (workshop participants)
11:45	Group Brainstorm: “Education and Research Challenges in CDS”
	Group Brainstorm: “What would you like from the SIG?”
12:15	Advisory Member Wrap Up
	Wrap Up

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Design Creativity SIG

Tuesday: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: CIS 101
Chair: Taura Toshiharu

The Design Creativity SIG is a new SIG within the DS, aimed at elucidating the nature of design creativity through study of issues such as the cognitive processes underlying design creativity, computational models of design creativity and practical processes to incorporate the human and social dimensions. The Workshop will aim to present a forum to discuss the nature and potential of design creativity from theoretical and methodological viewpoints. In addition the workshop aims to discuss the direction of research in design creativity. In particular the workshop intends to establish a framework for themes and research directions for design creativity.

Position Papers are invited for presentation at the Workshop, due 8 August 2009. Attendees are requested to submit position papers (4 page limit, A4 size, no specified format) on the workshop theme to the SIG Secretariat. The position papers will be handed out at the workshop in a stapled format.

The Agenda for the meeting will be:

1. Introduction of SIG Design Creativity (Opening, self-introduction by the attendees, status of the SIG, and report of the workshop in DCC (Yan Jin))
2. Presentations. Keynote speech - Speaker: Barbara Tversky (Stanford University). Title: Studying Creativity is Impossible and Some Ways to DoIt - Paper presentation from accepted papers for the conference.
3. Panel and Open Discussions. Theme: Directions for Design Creativity Research. Panelists: John Gero, Amaresh Chakrabarti, Yong Se Kim, Yan Jin, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura.

For detailed information on the workshop, please refer to the SIG website.

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Design Education SIG

Tuesday: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: Gates 104
Chair: Bill Ion

The theme of the workshop will be “Engineering Design Education 2025”. The aim will be to identify the trends and drivers that will influence the development of engineering design education over the next 16 years, in order to develop guidelines for the development of course and curricula. The workshop will also take the opportunity to identify topics for future DE-SIG developments and discussion in future workshops.

Program

09:00	Welcome and Introductions
09:15	Background. Report on Design Education workshop held at Cambridge University - Professor Chris McMahon.
09:30	Characteristics of the Designer and Design Education in 2025 - Open Discussion. Participants are invited to share their thoughts on the nature and characteristics of the designer and design education in 2025. Please contact the workshop Chair, Professor Bill Ion if you would like to make a short (5 minute) presentation in this part of the Workshop
10.00	Group work to speculate and further define the nature and context for engineering design education, 2025 with respect to the social and economic environment, products, demographics etc..
10.30	Refreshments
10.45	Feedback from group work
11:00	Group work to develop guidelines for the development of future course and curricula.
12:00	Feedback from group work
12:15	Identification of future topics
12:30	Close

The workshop is open to all delegates at the Conference. Although it would help the organisers if you would email the workshop Chair, Professor Bill Ion if you plan to attend.

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Modeling and Management of Engineering Processes SIG

Wednesday: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: Sequoia 200
Chair: P. John Clarkson

In March this year the Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (MMEP) SIG held three industry workshops, in Germany, Sweden and the UK at which a total of 39 practitioners from 27 companies representing eleven different industries - Aerospace, Automotive, Engineering, Telecommunication, Consumer Goods, Medical devices and Healthcare - contributed to a future research roadmap by presenting their current practice as well as their most important challenges and requirements about modelling and management of processes. The main topics addressed during the workshops were grouped under four headlines: (1) Understanding modelling processes about concepts and terms, approaches and purposes of models in practice; (b) Managing modelling processes about how to create, use, disseminate, implement, maintain, improve and change models; (c) Exploiting modelling processes about future expectations, potential for innovation and risks; (d) Road mapping of future research topics.

The workshop series has been evaluated by the academic partners and the results with a proposal for a roadmap for future research will be presented. The aim is to discuss the outcome with the design community and elicit further input from academia.

Schedule:

09:00	Welcome and Introduction into the SIG purpose and aims
	Prof. P. John Clarkson, EDC & Chairman of the DS SIG MMEP
09:10	Report from Industry Workshops
	*Overview of the process – Peter Heisig, EDC *Stockholm Workshop – Jens Hempälä, KTH *Munich Workshop – Julia Roelofsen, TUM *Cambridge Workshop – Peter Heisig, EDC
10:00	Group Work session
	Introduction & Research Roadmap by Industry – Peter Heisig, EDC Reflecting on Research topics from industry and contrasting with research interest from academia: *What topics are you working on now? *On which topics will you be working in the future (2010 to 2015+)? *Which topics should be withdrawn from the research roadmap and why? *Ranking the research topics?
11:00	Coffee Break
11:20	Designing the SIG’s Research Roadmap
	Combining the results from the working groups into one integrated SIG MMEP Research Roadmap with priority research topics
12:20	Outlook for 2010
	*DESIGN 2010 – SIG Workshop – Selected topics from SIG Roadmap *MMEP 2010 – Conference – Cambridge, UK – July 19-21
12:30	End of the SIG Meeting 2009

For further information please contact: Dr. Peter Heisig at the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Human Behavior in Design SIG

Wednesday: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: CIS 101
Chair: Petra Badke-Schaub

HOW TO DO RESEARCH ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN DESIGN?
Social sciences as research background for studying design activity.

Objectives:

1. The main aim of this workshop is to elicit awareness about the rich field of knowledge on human behavior which has been accumulated in social sciences and can be used as backbone of design research.
2. The second aim is a kind of ‘hands-on’ research focus. “I have done 20 interviews with designers about expertise. What can I do now with these data?”
3. The third aim is to provide an opportunity to exchange knowledge about research data, ideas, methods, experiences, questions, etc. on human behavior in design.

Schedule:

9:00	Introduction: workshop and objectives
9:10	Presentation: Why design research need social sciences?
9:30	Discussion
9:40	Brief introduction of each participant: Presenting data and question
	* research topic * research question * research method
9:55	Building sub-groups (according to topic-method-data)
10:00	Working in sub-groups on the individual questions
12:00	Plenum discussion

Please bring with you

1. data you have collected and a question related to the analysis of the data
2. one slide AND 10 copies on your research topic, research question and research method.

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Design Observatory (DO) Research by ICED'09 Hosts

Wednesday: 14:30 - 18:00
Location: Building 560
Co-Chairs: Ben James Hicks, Malte Jung, Neeraj Sonalkar, Peter Törlind

Objectives:

1. Meet other people in the design research society interested in Design Observatories
2. Share know-how regarding the use of video to study designing
3. Explore and take next steps in the use design observatories.

Please use the following questions to prepare for the workshop. The workshop is open to all those who are interested in conducting design observatory based research as well as those who already use design observatories

1. Tell the story of how do you use the DO for your research - data collection, analysis, findings, what sort of experiments do you run, how an experiment is performed.
2. What's the context of the design activity that you study in DO? E.g. concept design, distributed design etc. team size?
3. What're the next steps in using design observatories in terms of research questions as well as in technology?
4. What are the limitations or challenges you face in using the design observatories?

For those who don't yet do research using a design observatory but are interested - How would you like to design and use a design observatory?

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Design Theory SIG

Wednesday: 14:30 - 18:00
Location: Packard 204
Co-Chairs: Armand Hatchuel, Yoram Reich

Design Theory is an established area of research in the field of design and important steps have been achieved since WW2. However, there is today a growing body of work that indicates a renewal of the approaches and issues of Design Theory.

Schedule:

14:30	Welcome and SIG presentation: A.Hatchuel, Y.Reich
14:40	Scientific reports of SIG meetings and papers
	Y. Reich: Design theory and Engineering Creativity A. Hatchuel: New perspectives on design theory and collaborative innovation
15:40	Coffee Break
16:00	Thematic open sessions: each session will begin by introductory talks of 7-8 minutes, followed by open discussions with participants on present SIG work and future orientations.
	Session 1: Can we build theory-driven experiments in design? Jean-François Boujut, Ade Mabogunje Session 2: History of Design theories: what is the state of the art? Pascal Le Masson, Eswaran Subrahmanian
17:45	Closing session: SIG Agenda and next meetings

The workshop is open to ICED 09 participants. You are kindly requested to register their participation by email to the chair persons Armand Hatchuel, MinesParisTech, France, or Yoram Reich, Tel Aviv University, Israel, before July 31.

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Applied Engineering Design Science SIG

Wednesday: 14:30 - 18:00
Location: Gates 104
Chair: W. Ernst Eder

Theme: Theory of Technical Systems – Development, Application for Design Method and Design Management

Professor Stanislav Hosnedl, Chairman of the AEDS-SIG, sends his apologies for not attending ICED 09.

The Workshop will take place in two sessions (2:30-4:00 and 4:30-6:00), with a refreshment break. For the first session, three papers have been allocated, and will be presented as podium papers in the following order:

• "An Integrated Approach to Manage New Product Development Processes in the Space Industry” by Ricardo Vittone and Francesca Montagna
• "Contact and Channel Modelling to Support Early Design of Technical Systems” by Albert Albers, Andreas Braun, P. John Clarkson, Hans-Georg Enkler and David Wynn
• “Analysis, Synthesis and Problem Solving in Design Engineering” by W. Ernst Eder

Two additional papers will be summarized:

• “Theory of Technical Systems (TTS) – Existing Approaches and Challenges” by Christian Weber – from session T1-TP3, Tuesday 9:00-10:30 a.m.
• “The Concept of Product Properties and its Value for Research and Practice in Design” by Herbert Birkhofer and Martin Wäldele – from session R1-XE5, Thursday 9:00-10:30 a.m.

The Theory of Technical Systems (TTS) has been under development since the 1960’s, pioneered by Dr Vladimir Hubka (1924-2006). TTS has now reached some maturity, and convergence with other approaches has been approached. The first session is intended to review the state of the art in TTS, and to propose further measures to achieve completeness and convergence.

The second session is dedicated to applications of TTS. As stated in cybernetics, ‘both theory and method emerge from the phenomenon of the subject’. A close relationship should exist between a subject (its nature as a concept or object), a basic theory (formal or informal, recorded or in a human mind), and a recommended method – the triad ‘subject – theory – method’.

TTS, as a basic theory, has led to a more comprehensive science which includes a coordinated theory of design processes, Engineering Design Science (EDS). Derived from EDS, an engineering design methodology was developed as a General Procedural Model of Design Engineering [4], and demonstrated on several case examples of novel design engineering, and of redesign. Attempts have been made to incorporate other design process approaches, including Integrated Product Development, and many others, with consequent clarifications of TTS and the theory of design processes.

More recent developments have led to industrial applications, especially in Czech industry. Insights gained here have highlighted the need to incorporate better management tools, both for managing the products of the organization, and for managing the design processes and projects, and their documentation:

1. explicit’ management of projects by supervisors/executive mangers and by ‘design team managers’ according to General Procedural Model of Design Engineering based on TTS; and
2. ‘implicit’ management of design engineering ‘steps’ based on TTS, especially:

• Product Design Specification (PDS) – list of requirements – as a flexible tool for ‘property driven and managed design engineering’,
• Continuous Evaluation (based on comparison with the PDS) of the current results of design engineering,
• Documentation of the project.

These create a systematic management framework/umbrella, which stimulate efficient and effective creative design engineering synthesis-, analysis- and iteration-activities using ‘any reasonable/effective/optimal combination’ of the four basic approaches for coordinated application:

• Theory-based strategy – full use of Engineering Design Science and its methodology, including TTS, for novel design engineering, and appropriate consistent use for redesign;
• Procedural strategy – methodical instructions for ‘best practice’ and other methods;
• Intuitive strategy – based on and designers’ tacit knowing of design processes;
• Trial-and-error strategy – directed trial and error correction.

The continuous systematic documentation of the performed projects ‘automatically’ provides engineering design managers (and engineering designers) with a systematically and transparently arranged engineering design knowledge base, both about the product (and alternatives considered at all applied stages of abstraction) and about the design process. This base works well, compared to computer ‘knowledge and expert systems’ based on questionnaires, etc. which mostly fail due to difficult maintenance and updating, or being too product-specific.

Participants in the Workshop are invited to:
– point to both conscious and unconscious contributions the topic,
– admit and support opposite opinions and even criticisms,
– avoiding counter-productive personal criticism,
to evoke fruitful discussions which bring both positive and critical results, and which contribute to the next development of TTS-based EDS.

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Decision Making SIG

Thursday: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: Sequoia 200
Chair: Harald Meerkamm

Decision Makers are principally responsible for their company’s future. Approving the introduction of new products, processes or technologies often means to deal with hardly manageable risks. Helping developers and designers to find the best answers and to keep risks at a minimum is the goal of all efforts in scientific and applied decision mak-ing research. Thereby, the following different levels of decision making processes have to be considered:

• Context
• Product
• Process
• Organisation

This workshop will provide a platform to discuss different approaches trying to achieve this goal. Hereby, the focus should be on the following topics:

1. Handling of complexity in decision making tasks: How can we get to clear decisions in complex product development tasks? How does this complexity arise? Do we need new concepts, models, methods or tools to handle complexity in decision making?
2. Decision making in industrial practice: Which kinds of decisions have to be done in industrial product development practice? What methods and tools are in use supporting Decision Making procedures? What are basic industrial requirements for tools supporting decision tasks?
3. Is it possible to handle product development and decisions by mathematical models?: Which mathematical models do we have? What are our practical experiences with that kind of ap-proaches? Where do we see limits? Is it possible to use those models in early stages of product de-velopment beneficially?
4. Degree of maturity: How can we measure the degree of maturity? Where is the difference between product and process degree of maturity? How does a systematic consideration of the degree of maturity support decision making tasks in product development?

Contributions can be provided in terms of short oral statements with respect to the four points above (5–7 minutes). Thereby, an intensely discussion and exchange of experiences is a fundamental goal of this workshop.

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EcoDesign SIG

Thursday: 9:00 - 12:30
Location: Gates 104
Co-Chairs: Tim McAloone, Niki Bey

The EcoDesign SIG has a long tradition of organising and running ecodesign workshops alongside a number of DS and other conferences. This year, the EcoDesign SIG has teamed up this year with Panasonic Corporation, where together they will utilise innovative tools and techniques towards conceptualizing the eco-friendly home system of the future.

Panasonic have focused for some years on the reduction of products' effects on the environment, through various strategic and detailed design techniques. Their motivation in contributing to the Workshop is the perceived need to focus increasingly on the usage phase of the product life cycle. For the research communities the Workshop is an opportunity to break out and try out methods in collaboration with a real-life company, with a real life project. The Workshop will be rounded up the workshop with a discussion of ecodesign implementation in industry.

The plan this year is to create a follow up publication to describe what has been created and learned at the Workshop.

Please register your interest in attending the Workshop by sending a mail to Tim McAloone, so that we can get an idea of how many to expect. An extra special invitation is extended to all ecodesign researchers and practitioners, to join the workshop and play an active role in the proceedings of the afternoon. The main motivation with the workshop is to try out and compare various tools and techniques developed in the research labs, around the world. By participating actively with your tool/technique/method, you will add a rich element to the discussion, whilst at the same time gaining free access to a real life case, to validate your research! We can accommodate up to eight active ecodesign researchers in the workshop, so please let Tim know as soon as possible, at the above email address, if you’d like to participate in this manner (you don't need a paper to be a presenter at this session!).

A preparation pack will be prepared by Panasonic and the EcoDesign SIG and sent to the active participants prior to the ICED conference - including details of what to prepare for the workshop.

Schedule:

09:00	Welcome to workshop
09:10	Short presentation by Panasonic
	2-3 examples of ecodesign The eco-innovated home system of the future
09:20	Divergence
	Current trends and future scenarios (pre-prepared by EcoDesign SIG) Ideation Negative brainstorming Ideal-concept method Eco-innovation techniques (from participants)
10:45	Eco-break (Fresh air and fruit)
11:00	Convergence
	Back-casting Eco-focusing Target-plotting Consolidation of concepts
12:00	Implementation of methods and discussion of ecofutures (EcoDesign SIG and Panasonic)

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