Highlights•Parametric design thinking (PDT) presents a new horizon for research and
practice in design studies.•PDT incorporates disciplinary knowledge, including process …

Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology that is being used in a wide range of fields
such as medicine, gaming, psychology and sociology. The use of VR is promising in the field …

The incorporation of precedents into a present design situation by adaptation, restructuring
and reformulation depends upon processes of typification and generalization. The function …

Many expert systems have moved out of development laboratories into field test and routine
use. About sixty such systems are listed. Academic research laboratories are contributing …

This paper describes an approach to the automatic presentation of multimedia documents
based on parsing and syntax-directed translation using Relational Grammars. This …

For the past six years Anglia Polytechnic University has been working in partnership with
Essex Social Services Department and (for three years) with Ford Motor Company in …

Deriving accurate 3D object dimensions with a passive vision system demands, in general,
the use of multistation sensor configurations. In such configurations, object features appear …

Cities are rapidly growing. There is an assumption that 90% of global population growth will
be in cities between now and 2030. Therefore, infrastructures and the environment have to …

Abstract Systems that make suggestions to designers are proposed as an aid to preliminary
design and as a computational tool for concurrent engineering. By providing suggestions …

This paper describes the complex activities involved in engineering design. Next it reviews
the chemical engineering literature on synthesis, looking particularly heat flows in …