The bridge between engineering design and cognitive science research is critical to understand the effectiveness of design methods as implemented by human designers. The study reported in this paper evaluates the effects of design fixation in a group of engineering design faculty, and also provides evidence for approaches to overcome design fixation. Three conditions are compared, a control, a ...

While this era of digital technology brings great possibilities for improving the lives of many people with digital healthcare services, the design of these services in turn present challenges that are ethical in nature. Participatory Design (PD) values user involvement in design from a democratic, empowerment and ethical perspective. However, the design of digital healthcare services constitut...

Spatially Balanced Latin Squares are combinatorial structures of great importance for experimental design. From a computational perspective they present a challenging problem and there is a need for efficient methods to generate them. Motivated by a real-world application, we consider a natural extension to this problem, balanced Latin Rectangles. Balanced Latin Rectangles appear to be even mor...

In some educational settings, the cost of textbooks approaches or even exceeds the cost of tuition. Given limited resources, it is important to better understand the impacts of free open educational resources (OER) on student outcomes. Utilizing digital resources such as OER can substantially reduce costs for students. The purpose of this study was to analyze whether the adoption of no-cost ope...

This study aimed to observe whether the learning environment created by digital classroom technologies has any effect on the academic success and online technologies self-efficacy of 7th grade students. In this study, an experimental design with a pre-test/post-test control group was used. The research was conducted with 58 students in a secondary school of Ankara. At the beginning of the study...

It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the parallel social-choice situation. Here decisions are to be made between a distribution with a large group o...

Much attention within the design community has focused on understanding and supporting situated or distributed design. However, in the practice of design, including techniques such as participatory design, the relationship between situated and distributed design should not be considered an or relationship, but rather an and relationship. Furthermore, extending upon the notion of distributed we ...

With the design B(v,r_1,...,r_v,b,k_1,...,k_b,λ{12},...,λ{v-1,v}),like one combinatorial configuration, can be presented organization of one experiment in which participate finite number v different elements some basic set V, which should organise in the b designs each with defined number k_j (j=1,...,v) elements from this basic set, but so that every of this elements are exactly in ri (i=1,......

The growth rate of the energy demand in the world has been lowered recently, however, the essenciality of the development of nuclear power generation has not been changed. Because of the limited resources of terrestrial uranium, the techniques of the extraction of uranium from sea water as the practically unlimited resources of uranium have been developed in Japan and other countries like F. R....