This study examines sustainable tourism products in destinations. Based on concepts of product design, our proposes a framework for by adapting an existing Design Sustainability Framework to consider and analyze the characteristics themes (tourism) as well their impact scope. Using pragmatic qualitative approach, 15 semi-structured interviews with destination managers from German-speaking Alpin...

industrial design is attempting to answer physical, emotional and functional needs of human by including different fields such as product design, transporting design, interaction design and etc. products have various functions and appearances, due to their users’ specifications. industrial design is attempting to answer physical, emotional and functional needs of human by including different fi...

The inherent iterative nature of product design and development poses significant challenge to reduce the product design and development time (PD). In order to shorten the time to market, organizations have adopted concurrent development where multiple specialized tasks and design activities are carried out in parallel. Iterative nature of work coupled with the overlap of activities can result ...

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Economic change brings opportunity as well as failure. In today’s volatile world economy, traditional ways of doing business are becoming disastrously obsolete. Companies must offer better products now—and introduce them frequently to stay in business. Growing populations in developed and developing nations have greater expectations for themselves and their environment, and citizens everywhere ...

Fabrice Alizon Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA Kiran Khadke Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering Mechanics Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Henri J. Thevenot The Harold & Inge Marcus Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA John ...

development of a suitable method for color sorting of agricultural products such as: tomato, apple and orange, based on surface reflection and image formation was the goal of this research. a suitable scheme of color differentiation using an optic head and electrical processing circuitry for separating red from green and other colors is presented. a photo-conductive transducer, electrical resis...

A research and development (R&D) approach has been applied to video telephony (VT) in northern Finland since 1994 by broad consortia. The focus has been on the considerable involvement of ergonomics within the engineering and implementation of VT. This multidisciplinary participatory ergonomic R&D approach (PERDA) is described briefly, in general and through two cases. The user-centeredness sho...