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Augmented Reality for Engineering Graphics
This open access book offers a timely snapshot of Augmented Reality (AR) technology, with an emphasis on its application within the mechanical and manufacturing engineering domains, for both educational and industrial purposes. Reporting on the experience of the authors, the book introduces readers to the principles of product design, with an emphasis on modern strategies and approaches for use…
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- 978-3-031-44640-5
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- XIII, 89
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In the bubble : Designing in a complex world
"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World." "In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now - not i…
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- 0262201577
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- 1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
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- 600 THA b
Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet
Title from title screen."The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited, Richard Coyne uses the liminality of design - its uneasy position between creativity and commerce - to explore the network …
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- 9780262255950
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- 1 online resource (x, 284 pages)
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Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World
Engineering, for much of the twentieth century, was mainly about artifacts and inventions. Now, it's increasingly about complex systems. As the airplane taxis to the gate, you access the Internet and check email with your PDA, linking the communication and transportation systems. At home, you recharge your plug-in hybrid vehicle, linking transportation to the electricity grid. Today's large-sca…
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- 9781613445891
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Empowering Users through Design Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Appro…
At the crossroads of various disciplines, this collective work examines the possibility of a new end-user “engagement” in ongoing digital/technological products and services development. It provides an overview of recent research specifically focused on the user’s democratic participation and empowerment. It also enables readers to better identify the main opportunities of participatory d…
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- 978-3-319-13018-7
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- 11 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
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Design for resilience :making the future we leave behind
"Designing for resilience is a critical issue of the 21st century. This is the first book-length work that shows us how to design for a future that lasts, and why we should want to"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374460
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- 1 online resource
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Flexibility in engineering design
Project teams can improve results by recognizing that the future is inevitably uncertain and that by creating flexible designs they can adapt to eventualities. This approach enables them to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid harmful losses. Designers of complex, long-lasting projects--such as communication networks, power plants, or hospitals--must learn to abandon fixed specificatio…
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- 9781613444115
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages) :illustrations.
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FEM
Kern der CAE-Technik als integratives Verfahren zum Konstruieren und Berechnen ist die Finite-Element-Methode (FEM). Gelöste praktische Fallstudien aus der Elastostatik, Elastodynamik und Wärmeleitung bilden einen Schwerpunkt in diesem Lehrbuch. Das bisherige Konzept "Anschaulichkeit vor Wissenschaftlichkeit" wurde auch in der aktuellen Auflage gestärkt, führte zu weiteren Vereinfachungen i…
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- 978-3-658-06054-1
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- Teknik Bangunan
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- 621
The Perception of Quality
Exploring the concept of quality management from a new point of view, this book presents a holistic model of how consumers judge the quality of products. It links consumer perceptions of quality to the design and delivery of the final product, and presents models and methods for improving the quality of these products and services. It offers readers an improved understanding of how and why the …
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- 978-1-4471-6627-6
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Rethink! Prototyping
In this book, the authors describe the findings derived from interaction and cooperation between scientific actors employing diverse practices. They reflect on distinct prototyping concepts and examine the transformation of development culture in their fusion to hybrid approaches and solutions. The products of tomorrow are going to be multifunctional, interactive systems – and already are …
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- 978-3-319-24439-6
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