Clarifying the fuzzy front end of new product development: Teaching engineering and industrial design students ethnographic methods to foster interdisciplinary inquiry into consumer needs

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 461-469

  Cagan, Jonathan ^a   Vogel, Craig ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS; INTEGRATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; QUALITATIVE METHOD; QUANTITATIVE TOOL;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 85096859867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC99/DTM-8786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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