Being familiar with the benefits of e-Health, Telekom Slovenia and the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Maribor along with other partners have initiated an eHealth project. In order to achieve high and effective user adoption of e-Health services, the user-centred design approach is used in the-Health project. Since broadly known conventional UCD methods and techniques are not complet...

A review of muon colliders is presented. Basic features of the accelerator and detector are outlined, and the very exciting physics prospects are reviewed.

The StoryBank project in the UK is exploring the application of digital storytelling technology to information sharing in the developing world. A multidisciplinary team of interaction designers, ethnographers and computer scientists are adopting a user-centered approach to the design of a system which should be useful to a specific rural community in South India. This paper discusses some of th...

We carried out a series of case studies in industrial settings to learn how to perform effective assessments of user-centred design (UCD) processes. Our research strategy was to gather qualitative feedback from the organisations assessed, to understand how the different stakeholders perceive the assessments. We started with SPICE process assessment and a related UCD process model. Our observati...

The main current evolutions in industrial design research are the following : 1 The computerization of the early design phases 2 Consumer and user centered design with in particular emotional design 3 The concurrent engineering, with collaborative work supporting tools Our goal is to modelize the preliminary phases of traditional industrial design process, in order to build new computer aided d...

An important form of user innovation – Internet-supported collaborative design of new products and services by user communities – is likely to progressively supplant producer product and service design in many fields. This shift will require changes in governments’ innovation policies, for example, with respect to intellectual property rights. We discuss some general categories of innovation po...

Technology Intelligence is an activity that enables companies to identify strategies for their survival and future growth in the market. We introduce a new version of the technology intelligence system, InSciTe adaptive (2012). The system has major approaches of catching users’ intention, giving intuitive insight to users, supporting mobile environment in the technology intelligence field. Fina...