and consumers have grown to expect advanced functionality even in simple devices. Much of this built-in product complexity comes from electrification: components that are powered, actuated, sensed, and controlled with electrical and electronic technologies. Every day, ultra-competitive product development organizations create ever-more-innovative devices to meet demand. These products deliver m...

Action Regulation Theory is not only a description tool but also a normative guide to efficient and humanized work; it became a foundation of international standards in work design. The regular mode of action regulation is knowledgebased regulation. Innovation in mental work, e.g., product development, follows a hydrid model of action regulation combining knowledge-driven opportunistic sequence...

I. INTRODUCTION When the drug can be absorbed by the blood system, the bioequivalence of a generic drug is evaluated with a crossover design based on pharmacokinetic endpoints. However, for treatment of non-systemic symptoms, bioequivalence evaluation is regularly designed as a randomized clinical trial with three parallel treatment groups – T, the test treatment group, R, the reference treatme...

Pest monitoring is time consuming and labor intensive task, since pheromone traps, where insects are being caught, need to be visited on regular basis in order to monitor development of pest population. An innovative product which provides automated and real-time monitoring of pests reduces the need for field-scouting to minimum. In order to develop such product and to keep the whole system run...

This paper proposes a novel approach to modeling the diversity in users’ perceptions, based on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative techniques: the Repertory Grid Technique and Multi-Dimensional Scaling. The proposed method can be used for identifying diverse user groups that can inspire a range of personas, or for selecting subjects for field studies and usability tests. In a case study w...

The following case study analyzes the company Cargus, a Spanish manufacturer and distributor of an innovative stationary bicycle. It also provides an insight into the company’s product positioning and promotion, business strategy, and management style. Although the names of the business and employees are disguised, all other aspects are factual. Cargus introduced an innovative stationary bicycl...

Convergence of communication technologies and innovative product features are expanding themarkets for technological products and services. Prior literature on technology acceptance and use has focused on utilitarian belief factors as predictors of rational adoption decisions and subsequent user behavior. This presupposes that consumers’ intentions to use technology are based on functional or u...

This paper explores the adoption process of user-participative interaction design tools in manufacturing organisations in which they have not historically been used in the development of consumer product interfaces. Three case studies are presented describing the adoption of userparticipative design tools at different stages of implementation. The studies reveal an interesting ambivalence towar...

Software Engineering is a highly creative endeavor that challenges Computer Science (CS) students to establish an innovative vision and to craft an outstanding product. Curriculum standards for CS education typically lack creative approaches to Software Engineering, focusing on technological solutions rather than innovative design. Accountability for and contribution to creative initiatives are...

The aim behind every organization is to manufacture products which would fulfill the needs of a potential customer. Organization do plenty of research for making new innovative products, focus on product / service quality, train their resources and assess their financial resources etc. These things are very critical in determining the efforts and journey of any product. But above all, there is ...