The Means by Which We Find Our Way; Observations on Design
The Means by Which We Find Our Way; Observations on Design

Author: David Gardener

Publisher: Andrea Wilkinson

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1492118443

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The book The means by which we find our way: Observations on design looks at how graphic designers and educators navigate both the visual and the printed landscape. By the varied responses to similar visual design problems, personal reflections on design experiences and the consequent included essays, this book intends to provide a platform for learning and be a source for new collaborations and initiatives within the field of both design and design education. Including submissions from design educators from over twenty countries and representing over fifty institutions. Lisa M. Abendroth, Guido Alvarez, Jason Bader, Helena Barbosa, Jeff Barlow, Eric Benson, Jim Bryant, Audra Buck-Coleman, Kate Carlyle, Scott Carnz, Elisabeth Charman, Zhang Chen, Saeri Cho, Halim Choueiry, Jan Conradi, Chris Corneal, Stephanie Cunningham Rich, Gerry Derksen, Oscar Fernandez, Scott Fisk, Kenneth FitzGerald, Mara Jevera Fulmer, Gaby Esser-Hall, Dana Ezzell Gay, David Gardener, Peter Gilderdale, Carole Goodman, Gary M. Gowans, Matt Greenwell, Deb Hall, Montse Hernandez i Sala, Adrienne Hooker, Deborah Huelsbergen, Dora Isleifsdottir, Daniel Jasper, Gunta Kaza, Don Kline, Jennifer Kopping, Assaf Krebs, Ida Kumoji, Ana Llorente-Thurik, Philip Long, Wade Lough, Joyce Walsh Macario, Jackie Malcolm, Sarah McCoy, Terri McManus, Jennifer McKnight, Isabel Meirelles, Dario M. Muhafara, Leila Musfy, Nazli Eda Noyan, Mette Ohlendorff, Ms. Mervi Pakaste, Mookesh Patel, Luciano Perondi, Massimo Pitis, Jessica Ring, Eddy Roberts, Kelly Salchow, Carrie Lee Schwartz, Emre Senan, Silvia Sfligiotti, Allen Sheets, Valerie Sloan, Kent D. Smith, Julie Spivey, Edwin Utermohlen, Iris Utikal, William van Giessen, John H. Walker, Joyce Walsh Macario, Will Wang, Andrea Wilkinson, Hyla Willis, Ric Wilson, Nancy Wynn, Robert Dennis and Bonne Zabolotney

Video Games and the Mind
Video Games and the Mind

Author: Bernard Perron

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0786499095

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Can a video game make you cry? Why do you relate to the characters and how do you engage with the storyworlds they inhabit? How is your body engaged in play? How are your actions guided by sociocultural norms and experiences? Questions like these address a core aspect of digital gaming--the video game experience itself--and are of interest to many game scholars and designers. With psychological theories of cognition, affect and emotion as reference points, this collection of new essays offers various perspectives on how players think and feel about video games and how game design and analysis can build on these processes.

Understanding by Design
Understanding by Design

Author: Grant P. Wiggins

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1416600353

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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence
The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence

Author: Abdelsalam Helal

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-09-22

Total Pages: 971

ISBN-13: 0470379359

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An advanced look at smart technology to promote the independence of the elderly and disabled Ongoing research and advancements in technology are essential for the continuing independence of elderly and disabled persons. The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence provides a thorough analysis of these technologies and the needs of the elderly and disabled, including a breakdown of demographics, government spending, growth rate, and much more. Each chapter is written by an expert in his or her respective field, and gives readers unparalleled insight into the research and developments in a multitude of important areas, including: User-need analyses, classifications, and policies Assistive devices and systems for people with motor disabilities Assistive devices and systems for people with visual and hearing impairments Human-machine interaction and virtual reality Assistive robotics Technology for user mobility and object manipulation Smart homes as assistant environments A discussion of emerging standards and guidelines to build accessible devices, tools, and environments This book is an indispensable resource for researchers and professionals in computer science, rehabilitation science, and clinical engineering. It also serves as a valuable textbook for graduate students in the aforementioned fields.

Urban Mobility Design
Urban Mobility Design

Author: Selby Coxon

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0128150394

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Focusing from the perspective of the user, Urban Mobility Design investigates how designed mobility and design processes can respond to and drive the emerging social and technological disruptions in the passenger transport sector. Profound technological advances are changing the mobility expectations of city populations around the world. Transportation design is an under represented research area of urban transportation planning. Urban Mobility Design addresses this gap, providing research-based analysis on current and future needs of urban transportation passengers. The book examines mobility from a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective, involving a variety of innovative design and transportation planning approaches. - Examines urban mobility from a new perspective - Coherently combines current research and practice in transport design, technology, mobility, user behaviour experience, and cultural analysis - Utilizes hands-on experiences with transportation manufacturers, transit operators and engineers to bring a practical view on today's mobility challenges - Shows how design approaches to problem solving can influence travel behaviour and improve passenger experience

Artificial Intelligence in Design ’98
Artificial Intelligence in Design ’98

Author: John S. Gero

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9401151210

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The development of computational models of design founded on the artificial intelligenceparadigm has provided an impetus for muchofcurrentdesign research. As artificial intelligence has matured and developed new approaches so the impact ofthese new approaches on design research has been felt. This can be seen in the wayconcepts from cognitive science has found theirway into artificial intelligence and hence into design research. And, also in the way in which agent-based systems arebeingincorporated into design systems. In design research there is an increasing blurring between notions drawn from artificial intelligence and those drawn from cognitive science. Whereas a number of years ago the focus was largely on applying artificial intelligence to designing as an activity, thus treating designing as a form ofproblem solving, today we are seeing a much wider variety ofconceptions of the role of artificial intelligence in helping to model and comprehend designing as a process. Thus, we see papers in this volume which have as their focus the development or implementationofframeworks for artificial intelligence in design - attempting to determine a unique locus for these ideas. We see papers which attempt to find foundations for the development of tools based on the artificial intelligence paradigm; often the foundations come from cognitive studiesofhuman designers.

Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design
Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design

Author: Yong Gu Ji

Publisher: AHFE International (USA)

Published: 2021-07-19

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 1495121097

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This volume discusses pleasurable design — a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies. The book emphasizes the importance of designing products and services to maximize user satisfaction. By combining this with traditional usability methods it increases the appeal of products and use of services. This book focuses on a positive emotional approach in product, service, and system design and emphasizes aesthetics and enjoyment in user experience and provides dissemination and exchange of scientific information on the theoretical and practical areas of affective and pleasurable design for research experts and industry practitioners from multidisciplinary backgrounds, including industrial designers, emotion designer, ethnographers, human-computer interaction researchers, human factors engineers, interaction designers, mobile product designers, and vehicle system designers.

Reverence
Reverence

Author: Paul Woodruff

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0199350825

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Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies outside our control -- God, truth, justice, nature, even death. It is a quality of character that is especially important in leadership and in teaching, although it figures in virtually every human relationship. It transcends religious boundaries and can be found outside religion altogether. Woodruff draws on thinking about this lost virtue in ancient Greek and Chinese traditions and applies lessons from these highly reverent cultures to today's world. The book covers reverence in a variety of contexts -- the arts, leadership, teaching, warfare, and the home -- and shows how essential a quality it is to a well-functioning society. First published by Oxford University Press in 2001, this new edition of Reverence is revised and expanded. It contains a foreword by Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, a new preface, two new chapters -- one on the sacred and one on compassion -- and an epilogue focused on renewing reverence in our own lives.

Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue

Author: Paul Woodruff

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001-09-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0199779449

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Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. Like an important engine part that has rusted over time, the idea of reverence has become increasingly foreign. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance of the forgotten virtue of reverence, and how awe for things greater than oneself can--indeed must--be a touchstone for other virtues like respect, humility, and charity. Ranging widely over diverse cultural terrain--from Philip Larkin to ancient Greek poetry, from modern politics to Chinese philosophy--Woodruff shows how absolutely essential reverence is to a well-functioning society. He tackles some thorny questions: How does reverence allow not only for leaders but for followers? What role does reverence play in religion? Do some religions misuse reverence? Must reverence be humorless? In the process, Woodruff shows convincingly how reverence plays an unseen part in virtually every human relationship, whether in government, work, friendship, or family. It is essential, he says, for us to recover a sense of reverence in order to help repair the fraying bonds that tie us together. Elegantly written, thoughtful yet urgent, Reverence is sure to reach out to a wide variety of people interested in the moral health of Western culture, showing how our own intellectual and spiritual legacy can guide us more than we realize.

Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture
Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture

Author: Dak Kopec

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1315464403

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Traditional and Alternative Approaches to Health and Well-being -- 2 Co-producing Our Habitat for Health and Well-being -- 3 Human Factors and Ergonomics through the Lifespan -- 4 Designing to Confront the Adverse Health Impacts of Workplace Sitting -- 5 Communicable Diseases and our Environments -- 6 Environmental Contaminants -- 7 Green Design and Health -- 8 Health and Wellness in Today's Technological Society -- 9 Salutogenic Design for Birth -- 10 Healthy Schools, Healthy Lifestyles: Literature Review -- 11 Universal Design, Design for Aging in Place, and Habilitative Design in Residential Environments -- 12 Empathic Design Matters -- 13 The Role of Place in Well-being -- 14 Designing for Spirituality -- 15 Safety, Security, and Well-being within the Dimensions of Health Care -- 16 The Intersection of Law, Human Health, and Buildings -- Afterword -- Index