A novel approach to quantifying designer's mental stress in the conceptual design process

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 2 PART A, Issue , 2008, Pages 593-600

  Zhu, Shan ^a   Yao, Shengji ^a   Zeng, Yong ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATIVE (CO); DESIGN EVALUATION; DESIGN PROCESSES; DESIGN STATES; INNOVATIVE PROCESSES; INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS; MENTAL STRESS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NOVE L APPROACH; OBJECT MODELLING; PASSENGER COMPARTMENTS; PROTOCOL DATA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL CONFERENCES; THINKING PROCESS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; DESIGN; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PAPER; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING; ROM; STRESSES; TECHNOLOGY;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

EID: 44849099248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2007-35887     Document Type: Conference Paper

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