Article history: Received 14 April 2015 Received in revised form 26 May 2016 Accepted 22 July 2016 Available online 11 August 2016 Based on Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action, this paper critiques the transparency and legitimacy of participatory scenario planning, considering a case study of scenario development for the livestock industry within Scotland. The paper considers the extent to...

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools play an essential role in modern microelectronics. A comparison (between two of the available CAD tool suites, OCTTOOLS and OASIS, is presented along with detailed description of their features and advantages. These tools utilize full-custam or the standard cells semi-custom approaches. This paper is intended to facilitate proper choice of the tools for best VL...

Previous auditory display research has shown how fundamental aspects of an auditory signal may influence perception and impact the emotional state of the listener. However, a challenge for designers is how to find signals that correspond to user situations and make sense within a user context. In this article we present a web based application called AWESOME Sound Design Tool; a tool that invit...

When a service system is being designed, its resistance to randomly occurring detrimental events is often assessed. Several approaches can be used to include the influence of the events in the design process. This contribution deals with two such approaches. The first approach is based on making the system resistant to a finite set of scenarios. The second approach takes input data as fuzzy val...

Human resources are the most valuable capital of an organization, and managers are trying to provide motivation and productivity along with preserving the workforce. One way to motivate and increase productivity is to provide welfare services to employees. Using Adams' theory of equality, the current research attempts to design a desirable model for providing welfare services in the organizatio...

A large body of research in software requirement engineering domain has been dedicated to enhancing the structure of task scenarios using scenario schemas and predefined structures. However, less attention has been paid to the application of schemas in extracting design knowledge from scenarios. In this paper, we propose a schema-based technique to extract the design knowledge embodied in the t...

The presence of four generations in business and organisations and the prevalence of ever-evolving technology, pose questions for technology design; a much wider range of user-product arrangements needs to be forecast and designed for. To provide a theoretical framework that accommodates the need to forecast product appeal for various age groups and contexts this paper compares and combines the...

This thesis describes and analyzes implications of going from hypertext news to hypermedia news through a process of design, involving users and producers. As in any product development, it is difficult to conceive design of a novel news format that does not relate to earlier genres, and thus to antecedent designs. The hypothesis is that this problem can be addressed by explicitly taking a genr...