A case study contrasting German systematic engineering design with affordance based design

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 103-115

  Maier, Jonathan R A ^a   Fadel, Georges M ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA HANDLING; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

AFFORDANCE BASED DESIGN (ABD); ENGINEERING DESIGN THEORY; GERMAN SYSTEMATIC ENGINEERING DESIGN (GSED); SUB-FUNCTION SOLUTION PRINCIPLES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 33244497666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2005-84954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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