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Coley, F. J. S. "Exploring whole system design." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2008. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/3808.
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The emergence of increasingly complex problems, combined with growing concerns for the environment, is fuelling the demand for more innovative and sustainable products, services and systems. Whole system design is one approach that aims to integrate social, economic and environmental phenomena into a comprehensive design solution. The approach encourages the development of partnerships between actors from a variety of different backgrounds, disciplines and sectors to develop an innovative, sustainable and optimised solution at a whole system level. However, there is limited research concerning the integrative process that actors are required to follow in order to reach such a solution. The aim of this study was to gain improved knowledge and understanding surrounding the process of whole system design and to identify those factors that influence its success. This was achieved in two phases; firstly a longitudinal case study was undertaken which followed the process of whole system design from beginning to end. 22 design and progress meetings were observed, 18 interviews were carried out and a multitude of relevant documentation was analysed. This resulted in the identification of 10 themes. The second phase of the research aimed to validate initial findings by conducting 5 smaller cases and interviewing 11 individually selected experts. The study ultimately produced 8 confirmed themes, 68 individual findings and 37 factors that enable and inhibit the process of whole system design. As a result of this study, an improved knowledge and understanding surrounding the process of whole system design has been presented. In particular, findings have been provided concerning: the development of partnerships, the pertinence of human and non-human interaction, the requirement of individual characteristics, enhanced understanding of purpose and process, the necessary alignment of individual and organisational motivation, the necessity of sense making activities, the role of a facilitator and the need for integration, each of these within the context of whole system design. The framework of these findings provides a novel contribution to knowledge within the context of whole system design.
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Klein, Alex C. (Alex Charles). "Whole human design : designing for Humans, not Users." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122887.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2018Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-136).
In the past ten years, the Human-Centered Design methodology has exploded--permeating our organizational and academic worlds and becoming one of the most sought-after skills. The user-first mantra has become widely accepted and internalized. Develop empathy! Find users in their natural habitat! Design for their needs, not yours! Despite its vast popularity, I believe there is a great flaw and irony in the way we practice Human-Centered Design today: without the human. Though a human perceives his/her life as a dynamic whole (Gestalt Theory), we reduce him/her to a 'user', a shard of his/her full Self. This thesis explores the foundations of a new methodology, Whole Human Design[superscript TM], that seeks to re-unify the human and equip us to design for users in the context of their whole humanness. To that end, this thesis first seeks a usable definition of the Human and our human needs, by exploring a wide range of philosophical and psychological perspectives-from material/atomistic definitions (like those found in Behaviorism) to Phenomenology-inspired definitions (Existentialism, Humanistic Psychology, Positive Psychology) to Religious perspectives. From there, based on an ethnographic research with 50 individuals, this thesis introduces a design framework, the Periodic Table of Human Elements[superscript TM], a tool to connect functional and latent needs of a user to his/her deeper human roots. Finally, in order to illustrate how this methodology can be practiced, this thesis presents a case study of how Whole Human Design was used to solve a $300B real-world problem, medication adherence.
by Alex C. Klein.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
S.M.inEngineeringandManagement Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program
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Franz, Anna Young. "Whole System Design and Evolutionary 21st Century American Buildings + Infrastructure." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3592471.
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This study explores whole system design and evolutionary 21st century American buildings + infrastructure. The ideas and findings of this dissertation research, as presented at the Seventh International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Chiba, Japan on March 6, 2013, are provided in a forthcoming publication by the authors (Franz, Sarkani, and Mazzuchi 2013).
Since the introduction of the theory of ecological design in the mid-1970s, whole system design, based on collaboration, research, new technologies and iterative value management, has been increasingly applied to drive sustainable and more innovative solutions (Franz 2011, 2012). While this systems engineering approach for achieving substantial environmental and economic benefits is more commonplace today, it is theorized that evolutionary buildings + infrastructure are achieved through an expanded model of whole system design, one combining art and science, and disciplined processes for the purpose of innovation and differentiation (Franz, Sarkani, and Mazzuchi 2013). This model integrating whole system design (integrated design) with project management, systems engineering process models and radial innovation drives design innovation, promotes change in the built environment and prompts new market opportunities for the Architect Engineer and Construction industry (Franz, Sarkani, and Mazzuchi 2013).
Franz, Sarkani, and Mazzuchi (2013) note that understanding critical success factors for producing distinguished projects is key to sustaining architectural and engineering practice and the building industry. Through quantitative measurement and qualitative case study analyses, the study using winning projects from Engineering News Record's (ENR) Best of the Best 2011 Project Awards (as announced on February 13, 2012 in ENR, The 2011 Best of the Best Projects) examines four questions: 1) what are critical success factors for producing evolutionary 21st century buildings + infrastructure? 2) does whole system design enable project success? 3) do systems engineering process models enhance whole system design? and 4) is radical innovation critical for producing evolutionary American buildings + infrastructure? (Franz, Sarkani, and Mazzuchi 2013)
The study indicates that significant evidence exists to support prior research for factors related to people, project activities, barriers and success (Germuenden and Lechler 1997), and that whole system design (Coley and Lemon, 2008, 2009; Charnley, Lemon and Evans, 2011), as implemented through systems engineering process models (Bersson, Mazzuchi, and Sarkani 2012), and radical innovation (Norman and Verganti 2011) additionally are important factors. Case study information suggests that buildings + infrastructure evolve through design innovation, enhanced by an expanded model for whole system design aligning goals, vision, whole system design and outcomes (Franz, Sarkani, and Mazzuchi 2013). The study informs professionals and students about design innovation and effective project delivery strategies strengthened through systems engineering (Franz, Sarkani, and Mazzuchi 2013).
Keywords: Critical Success Factors, Whole System Design, Systems Engineering, Radical Innovation.
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Mashaly, Islam Ayman. "An evaluation method to include complex fenestration systems in the Façade design process." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212982/1/Islam%20Ayman%20Kamal%20Mohamed%20Abdellatif_Mashaly_Thesis.pdf.
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This research aims to improve the passive redirecting Complex Fenestration Systems (CFS) design process to be incorporated into the early building design stages. This is proposed in a framework that assists the building designer in designing new CFS suitable for buildings, which are encouraged in the early design phase. The research contributes to understanding CFS design and the effect of external and climatic parameters on the final CFS design. The research contributes to enhancing the CFS design process, enhancing the indoor environmental quality within the built environment and potentially decreasing the operational energy costs within the built space.
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Park, Hyo Ri. "Whole Care+: An integrated health care for the elderly living in their homes." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2011. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/22.
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The elderly experience their health getting significantly deteriorated as they age. They suffer not only from chronic diseases but from various geriatric diseases such as high blood pressure, arthritis and cardiovascular disease. Their mental health also retreats creating challenges for the elderly from the loss of short term memory to dementia. Furthermore, after they retire, the elderly’s social network decreases as their social activities are inevitably limited to a small group of people like families and friends.
With the face of such impairments in their physical, mental and social health, many elderly cannot help but are being institutionalized or sent to specialized places like nursing homes, which provide them professional care. However, a study indicates that most Americans prefer to stay in their homes as they get older since they can maintain their social connections to neighbors and friends, be close to their medical caregivers in town as well as attain emotional comfort and security with familiar surrounding and environments. On top of that, Americans of all ages value on keeping their ability of independence and autonomy by controlling their lives in general.
Various health care-aid devices and services appear to offer specific support to health care activities for the elderly in their homes. However, such aids have more focused only on when the elderly’s health is degraded or on very specific areas such as tracking health data like blood pressure, blood sugar and calorie intakes.
The elderly need comprehensive understanding about their health problems, healthy daily habits and timely interactions with their families and caregivers, in order to keep independent living safely in their places. Smart Home technology has much potential to support the elderly’s independent living as well as interactions with others. To better understand this, we conducted a user-centered design project which looks at the management of the elderly’s health enabled by Smart Home technology.
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Pääkkö, Yasmina, and Kristine Samuelsson. "HRM as a motivator to share knowledge : The importance of seeing the whole picture." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354424.
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Connecting Human Resource Management (HRM) and knowledge transfer through motivation is a new research area. Out of the few existing studies there is a predominance of quantitative studies, which are showing inconclusive results. As a response, this study uses a qualitative micro perspective to investigate how HRM practises influence intrinsic- and extrinsic motivation to share knowledge. It is important to divide motivation into intrinsic and extrinsic, as it impacts knowledge sharing differently. Former studies have identified a need to study the whole HRM system, therefore, to capture differences in motivation among employees exposed to the same system, this thesis takes on a single case study approach. Qualitative interviews were held with employees at an MNC that relies on knowledge intensive activities. The findings showed that employees were motivated intrinsically through career development and extrinsically by the performance management system. The supportive climate showed to influence motivation to share knowledge, both directly and indirectly. Job design was shown to work well in combination with other practises. Finally, a key finding was the importance of having an aligned HRM system.
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Basu, Piyali. "A novel whole system integrated genomics approach to identify key genetic components which facilitate synthetic design of a genetically engineered strain of Escherichia coli K12 with enhanced isobutanol tolerance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13712.
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There has been an increased global interest in biofuels which provide a renewable and sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Isobutanol is an attractive and superior alternative to the currently produced bioethanol possessing several key advantages. Previous work focuses on strategies for metabolic optimisation of carbon utilisation. However, existing solutions reach a stage where the amount of alcohol produced reaches toxic thresholds for bacteria. This inhibits growth and reduces carbohydrate consumption resulting in lower product yields rendering the biofuel production process uneconomical. In this project, a novel strategy has been adopted which uses a whole system integrated genomics approach consisting of expression profiling, selection to create isobutanol-adapted lineages, next generation sequencing, and comparative behavioural genomics to interrogate the system thoroughly and identify critical determinants of resistance to isobutanol. These were used in the highly-defined model species, E. coli K12 to deliver results of the adaptive mechanisms which take place across the entire genome. 41 gene candidates (4 previously identified in literature) were identified to play a role in isobutanol tolerance. These candidates belong to a range of functional groups such as carbohydrate metabolism, oxidative stress response, osmotic stress response; but also identified novel membrane-associated functions such as the Tol-Pal system, BAM complex and colanic acid production. The results also identify critical genes with unknown functions. The results support previous notions that central carbon metabolism shifts from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism in the presence of isobutanol, but also shows there is a transitionary phase where mixed acid fermentation pathways are utilised. This shift was previously thought to be mediated by the ArcA-ArcB two-component system. However, these results suggest the inactive 2Fe-2S core of the anaerobic-regulator Fnr is re-activated by Fe2+ to form the 4Fe-4S core transported by the FeoAB ferrous iron transport system. The strategy also identified the Tol-Pal system and show it is essential to grow in the presence of isobutanol, which is responsible for the maintaining the integrity of the cell envelope structure and increasing the rate of cell division. The BAM complex is responsible for folding and assembly of outer membrane proteins (OMP) and OMP membrane permeability- this system was found to be important for growth in isobutanol, and SurA, which is the primary OMP assembly pathway provided tolerance which was specific to isobutanol. Colanic acid, an extracellular polysaccharide is produced when the cell experiences stress, and provides protection by forming a physical barrier around the cell. The results show that the presence of colanic acid plays a large role in allowing E. coli to grow in presence of isobutanol, and its role becomes essential at critical concentrations. The results also show deletion of the negative regulator of the colanic acid gene cluster improves growth at critical and growth-inhibiting concentrations. When consolidated, these results facilitated knowledge-led based design and subsequently led to the identification of components for a synthetic design schedule, which lists the genetic manipulations proposed to exploit E. coli to enhance isobutanol tolerance.
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Lympouridis, Evangelos. "Design strategies for whole body interactive performance systems." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10434.
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This practice-led research investigates a design framework within an artistic context for the implementation of Whole Body Interactive (WBI) performance systems that employ real-time motion capture technology. Following an Interaction Design perspective I engage in exploring the requirements for composers, dancers, musicians and performers and their expectations, within a series of transdisciplinary collaborative artistic projects. Integral to this investigation is a comprehensive review and analysis of the progression of interactivity in fine art, music, dance and performance practices, presented in this thesis. As I am particularly concerned with the seamless transfer of the tacit skills and the implicit knowledge of non-digital artists and practitioners to a WBI performance setting, my practical explorations emerged in the contexts of music improvisation - Untitled#1, contemporary dance - Untitled#2, contemporary music composition - Hiroshima, and traditional dance - Duende. Adopting a Holistic Design approach, the experience and knowledge gained from my first practical explorations led to the design and implementation of a WBI prototyping software environment called EnActor, used in tandem with the Orient wireless inertial motion capture system, developed by the Research Consortium in Speckled Computing, at the University of Edinburgh. EnActor provides a simple and effective solution to the problem of linking physical actions to rich digital media responses and can serve as a blueprint for the development of other WBI design software, since it has operated successfully as a prototype, addressing a wide range of WBI design briefs in various contexts. In this thesis I introduce the role of the WBI designer as a specialist interaction designer able to conceptualise WBI scenarios and implement complete systems that operate within various levels of body sensing and control. I also propose the development of WBI systems that are autonomous and unsupervised, and I explore various compositional concepts and mappings that are implemented as automatic, semi-automatic or manual modules and ultimately arranged into layers and to series of blocks that represent complete compositions. Following the understanding of interactivity as a property between systems, I identify the design of three basic types of WBI performance systems that differ in how a user engages with them: methodical, empirical and dialectic. Overall this research aims to facilitate designers and artists interested in the use of real-time motion capture systems in dance, music, theatre and performance art applications.
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Novak, Vera. "Managing Sustainability Value in Design: A Systems Approach." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49591.
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The aim of the research is to identify core conditions that support increased delivery of sustainability in the built environment. The selected methodology is constructive research, which is distinguished by the dual focus on practical industry perspectives and theoretical knowledge. The first research question examines how Target Value Design (TVD), an integrated design management process, can elicit better delivery of sustainability values. This is developed through case study research of an exemplary design team and project. The findings identify a gap in the capability of the team to adopt a whole systems approach in order to make explicit the values of sustainable prosperity and develop a unified vision. This provides the basis for the second research question - how can design teams gain an understanding of the systemic nature of sustainability, and how can this understanding impact the design process? �The research proposes an intervention method that aligns learning models from the disciplines of experiential learning cycles, design thinking, behavior modeling, systems thinking and unified vision. This integrated approach leverages creative design activities to capture the learning potential for individual skills and team building. �While the research acknowledges the limitations from the testing of a single workshop experiment, post-workshop data suggests the intervention framework is sufficiently robust and versatile enough to adapt to individual workshop circumstances. �The key research outcome is the importance of the people in the process of collaborative design, in their ability to envision a future state of sustainable prosperity and articulate explicit actionable values.Ph. D.
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Lineberry, Jeffrey. "Estimating production cost while linking combat systems and ship design." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27861.
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In a Naval International Cooperative Opportunities in Science & Technology Program (NICOP) initiative, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is investigating whether an emphasis on the utilization of computer simulation and combat modeling will achieve a warship design that effectively links the combat system and the ship design. A success in this effort will result in an enhancement to the ships combat mission effectiveness while providing real-time estimates of the associated production cost. This thesis addresses the cost estimation portion of the various models and simulations associated with the NICOP initiative, with a focus on Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs). This thesis identifies the historical and current ship production costs of OPVs that are used for various combat missions. This study supports the NICOP initiative by providing a foundation for further investigation into the framework necessary to provide more accurate cost estimates. This is accomplished within the trade space of the naval architecture developed through the application of Model Based System Engineering (MBSE). The development of a cost model for the NICOP initiative is used as a framework to explain the cost estimating approach process for future MBSE designs. The model is then used to compare to the base model developed by the Italians.
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Welch, Jeffery D. "Architectural Elegance." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1409065637.
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Dukes, Michael Dickey. "Comparing problem-based learning and lecture as methods to teach whole-systems design to engineering students." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1263400485/.
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Harp, Phillip Allan. "System to compress while electrically stimulating hippocampal brain slices (SCWESH) : design, development, and electromechanical validation." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16828.
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Johnson, Philip Tyler. "Development and design of an adjustable elastic support system for ensuring safety while learning physical skills." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32940.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 20).
In many sports, when learning a new move or technique, there can be a mental barrier that keeps the learner from succeeding in the move. In this study, a system is developed and designed for helping someone to learn new motions while ensuring safety. Heavy-duty springs enclosed in a high strength fabric wrap are secured to an anchor point on a wall or other rigid body. A rope connects these springs to a harness on the user via a pulley located above the user. In testing the system, a variety of ground and jumping skills were attempted on a snowboard. The system maintains an upward force on the user, which helps support the user on the ground, provides some lift during the takeoff, cushions the landing of a jump, and prevents the user from falling while attempting to learn new moves. This, in turn, increases the user's confidence and spatial awareness. Multiple applications for this system are discussed and future research directions and design iterations are suggested. These include various placement options for the existing system as well as ideas for making the support system mobile.
by Philip Tyler Johnson.
S.B.
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Bhutani, Mahima. "Enhancing User Experience while retrieving information via Dashboard." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-262728.
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With rapid growth in technical and social sector, the amount of data produced and retrieved has grown exponentially. Hence, there is a dire need for a management information system (MIS) to manage and structure such data. This study was initiated to learn about the problems and needs of the employees of a truck manufacturer organisation while working for long duration projects. The information about processes and tasks is available but in an unstructured manner through excel spreadsheets which makes it difficult for users to retrieve required information during crucial times. An information system in the form of a dashboard was designed and proposed to overcome the problems faced by users. This study focuses on evaluating the user experience of employees while retrieving desired information about the procedures using both dashboard and excel spreadsheets. To investigate the work structure and problems of employees, interviews were conducted. The results were analysed and a dashboard solution was proposed and developed with real time data. With employees coordination, few usability tests were conducted and the feedback was recorded for future work. According to the study results, the efficiency of employees can be increased and the decision making can be improved using MIS. With better retrieval techniques user experience was also enhanced. The interactive visualisations of dashboard attracted users and was used efficiently for providing tons of information about procedures to be followed.Med den snabba tillväxten inom teknisk och social sektor har mängden data som både produceras och hämtas ökat exponentiellt. Därför finns det ett brådskande behov av informationssystem för att hanterar och strukturera sådan data. Denna studie startade med att utforska de problem och behov som fanns hos anställda på ett företag som tillverkar lastbilar när de jobbar i långvariga projekt. Informationen om rutiner, processer och uppgifter är idag tillgänglig för de anställda i ostrukturerade Excel-kalkylblad, detta gör det svårt att hämta nödvändig information. Ett informationssystem i form av en instrumentpanel utformades och föreslogs för att lösa de problem som användarna möter. Denna studie fokuserade på att utvärdera användarupplevelsen hos de anställda medan de hämtade önskad information om rutinerna när de använde både instrumentpanelen och Excel-kalkylblad. För att undersöka arbetetsstrukturen och de problem som de anställda upplever så genomfördes intervjuer. Resultatet analyserades och ett resultat i forma av ett informationssystem (instrumentpanelen) föreslogs och utvecklades med realtidsdata. Med samordning av de anställda genomfördes användbarhetstester och deras återkoppling registrerades för framtida arbete. Enligt studieresultaten kan effektiviteten hos de anställda ökas och beslutsfattande kan förbättras med hjälp av ett informationssystem. Användarupplevelsen kan också förbättras genom bättre tekniker för hämtning av data. Den interaktiva visualiseringen av instrumentpanelen lockade användarna och användes effektivt för att ge information om rutiner som ska följas.
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Minteer, Timothy Michael. "Design of a new transformer isolated analog acquisition system having greatly reduced transformer size and weight while achieving high accuracy." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2008/t_minteer_041308.pdf.
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Rosato, Dagmar. "Aqua.Street.Scapes: Interpreting Natural Hydrologic Processes while Enhancing the Urban Streetscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78268.
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This project proposes a new urban aquifer strategy that utilizes stormwater to create a cascading plaza and an improved 'great street' in Washington DC.
A system of urban aquifers is developed beneath the surface of the street, perched atop the compacted, impermeable soils below. This set of aquifers prevents stormwater from entering the existing combined sewer and allows trees to draw water from this new groundwater source and develop expansive root systems.
On the surface, stormwater flows through interconnected planters where it irrigates and is filtered by vegetation before infiltrating to recharge the aquifer. At Cascade Plaza, sloping topography intersects the aquifer, and the new groundwater seeps out of the plaza steps, turning them into a miniature cascade, by gravity and water pressure alone. It collects in a web of runnels, pools at the lowest point, and overflows in high water, mysteriously disappearing below ground again to fill an underground reservoir.
In this unique ecological system, water flows both above and below ground to mitigate excess stormwater and make the street and plaza more beautiful.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Huang, Hanyang. "Adaptive Elastomer-liquid Lenses for Advancing the Imaging Capability of Miniaturized Optical Systems." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562076808810062.
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Tunková, Martina. "Městské lázně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215713.
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Pretorius, Petrus Johannes. "A generic approach to integrated logistic support for whole-life whole-systems." Diss., 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09042003-144215.
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Wu, Meng-Chuan, and 吳孟娟. "Design of an Educational Location-based Game Prototype Evolving Learners' Whole System Thinking Toward Wild Perennial Crops." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74393047788661680164.
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碩士國立交通大學
理學院科技與數位學習學程
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Location-based Game (LBG), which evolves from street game culture, was mainly designed for entertainment and implemented in rural areas and offline environment while LBG of pedagogic tradition was less developed. My research aims to design an educational LBG prototype to encourage players to do check-ins for Wild Perennial Crops (WPCs) in the offline environment while players could fight against climate change and participate in biodiversity conservation during gaming. I have collaborated with Rewilding Earth (RE) to design and deploy Rewilding Earth Academy (REA) which is a teaching program with action research method. The field station for game design and teaching program is an Atayal Tribe, Mekarang. Program designers found the generic knowledge between indigenous knowledge and WPCs through local senior interviews and field learning from which to design teaching and gaming materials. RE recruited 25 learners from university and enterprise. During the program, I used participatory observation method to make records and collect data and further analyzed them in order to answer my research questions. According to my research findings, REA used 4 approaches, WPCs, technology, food culture and education to build up learners' "Whole System Thinking" toward WPCs and developed 7 game episodes to engage and motivate learners and everyone of them obtains knowledge and wisdom from Atayal. OpenStreetMap (OSM) was adopted to develop a WPC centered and Atayal perspective map and the game prototype had been tested by players using GPS smart phones that support offline OSM to do check-ins for WPCs and explore around rural areas. From data analysis and field observations, I drew my research conclusions into 3 points: 1. Impact of the integration of gaming in a series of teaching programs on the learners: 1) the learners gained learning experiences from playing and gained confidence for sharing, 2) the learners contributed personal knowledge during gaming and practiced knowledge learned from games to engage public issues in the real world, 3) the learners' empathy to targeted service group was fostered by role playing and virtual stories based on real events and scenes, 4) the learners' competence was improved through group collaboration and group competition. 2. Findings in LBG design: 1) it has potentials to foster multidisciplinary learning, such as Mathematics and Geography, 2) unplanned events enhance authentic playing experience, 3) evaluation that combines quantitative and qualitative dimensions, evaluators from different expertise and a virtual badge reward system could show learners' performance in a holistic way. 3. Make suggestions to the WPC game prototype and discuss LBG that involves indigenous knowledge and uses OSM as a participatory mapping platform should consider the ethical issues that indigenous people engagement in the game design is crucial and they should the authority to decide the scale and level of open data.
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Daly-Smith, Andrew, T. Quarmby, V. S. J. Archbold, N. Corrigan, D. Wilson, G. K. Resaland, J. B. Bartholomew, et al. "Using a multi-stakeholder experience-based design process to co-develop the Creating Active Schools Framework." 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18051.
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YesUK and global policies recommend whole-school approaches to improve childrens' inadequate physical activity (PA) levels. Yet, recent meta-analyses establish current interventions as ineffective due to suboptimal implementation rates and poor sustainability. To create effective interventions, which recognise schools as complex adaptive sub-systems, multi-stakeholder input is necessary. Further, to ensure 'systems' change, a framework is required that identifies all components of a whole-school PA approach. The study's aim was to co-develop a whole-school PA framework using the double diamond design approach (DDDA). Fifty stakeholders engaged in a six-phase DDDA workshop undertaking tasks within same stakeholder (n = 9; UK researchers, public health specialists, active schools coordinators, headteachers, teachers, active partner schools specialists, national organisations, Sport England local delivery pilot representatives and international researchers) and mixed (n = 6) stakeholder groupings. Six draft frameworks were created before stakeholders voted for one 'initial' framework. Next, stakeholders reviewed the 'initial' framework, proposing modifications. Following the workshop, stakeholders voted on eight modifications using an online questionnaire. Following voting, the Creating Active Schools Framework (CAS) was designed. At the centre, ethos and practice drive school policy and vision, creating the physical and social environments in which five key stakeholder groups operate to deliver PA through seven opportunities both within and beyond school. At the top of the model, initial and in-service teacher training foster teachers' capability, opportunity and motivation (COM-B) to deliver whole-school PA. National policy and organisations drive top-down initiatives that support or hinder whole-school PA. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first time practitioners, policymakers and researchers have co-designed a whole-school PA framework from initial conception. The novelty of CAS resides in identifying the multitude of interconnecting components of a whole-school adaptive sub-system; exposing the complexity required to create systems change. The framework can be used to shape future policy, research and practice to embed sustainable PA interventions within schools. To enact such change, CAS presents a potential paradigm shift, providing a map and method to guide future co-production by multiple experts of PA initiatives 'with' schools, while abandoning outdated traditional approaches of implementing interventions 'on' schools.
The conference and workshop were jointly funded through an internal Leeds Beckett Research grant, the Yorkshire Sport Foundation and Public Health England (Yorkshire and Humber). Twinkl Educational Publishing kindly sponsored the conference and workshop event. DDB and SEB’s involvement was supported by Sport England’s Local Delivery Pilot – Bradford. DDB and SEB invovlement was also funded by the National Institute for Health Research Yorkshire and Humber ARC (reference: NIHR20016), and the UK Prevention Research Partnership, an initiative funded by UK Research and Innovation Councils, the Department of Health and Social Care (England) and the UK devolved administrations, and leading health research charities. ACR is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands (ARC EM).
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Wong, Pius Duc-min. "Methodology for creating human-centered robots : design and system integration of a compliant mobile base." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5433.
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Robots have growing potential to enter the daily lives of people at home, at work, and in cities, for a variety of service, care, and entertainment tasks. However, several challenges currently prevent widespread production and use of such human-centered robots. The goal of this thesis was first to help overcome one of these broad challenges: the lack of basic safety in human-robot physical interactions. Whole-body compliant control algorithms had been previously simulated that could allow safer movement of complex robots, such as humanoids, but no such robots had yet been documented to actually implement these algorithms. Therefore a wheeled humanoid robot "Dreamer" was developed to implement the algorithms and explore additional concepts in human-safe robotics. The lower mobile base part of Dreamer, dubbed "Trikey," is the focus of this work. Trikey was iteratively developed, undergoing cycles of concept generation, design, modeling, fabrication, integration, testing, and refinement. Test results showed that Trikey and Dreamer safely performed movements under whole-body compliant control, which is a novel achievement. Dreamer will be a platform for future research and education in new human-friendly traits and behaviors. Finally, this thesis attempts to address a second broad challenge to advancing the field: the lack of standard design methodology for human-centered robots. Based on the experience of building Trikey and Dreamer, a set of consistent design guidelines and metrics for the field are suggested. They account for the complex nature of such systems, which must address safety, performance, user-friendliness, and the capability for intelligent behavior.text
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Booyse, Nicolaas Johannes. "Development of a school -based performance management framework for self-managing schools in South Africa." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25384.
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With education at the centre of the South African government’s National Development Plan for 2030, an effective schooling system is not negotiable. A review of the literature showed that public schools in South Africa are self-managing. The performance of most of these schools are unsatisfactory with specific reference to academic performance, infrastructure, finances and resources. The review further revealed severe shortcomings with the use of the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) for school-based performance management. This included that the IQMS is insufficient, that its application is ineffective and that it does not support school-based performance management. It is a compliance system and does not allow schools’ stakeholders the freedom to take part in designing their own strategy for the school. The researcher argues that self-managing schools link to the Participatory Democracy Theory that ensures the involvement of stakeholders. The IQMS however, links to Managerialism, rejecting stakeholders’ independence of self-management and decision-making. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a school-based performance management framework for public schools in South Africa.
Specific attention was given to the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a theoretical framework for its flexibility to accommodate diverse organisations. The BSC was placed in the Evolutionist theories under the Resource-Based View (RBV) approach, focussing on the uniqueness of organisations’ tangible or intangible resources. The researcher argued that a combination of the IQMS and the BSC might close the theoretical gap and contribute to school-based performance management in self-managing public schools.
A qualitative research paradigm, embedded in the interpretivism philosophy, guided this study. A Design-Based Research (DBR) method was followed to develop the framework. The first phase was to develop a preliminary framework, using the IQMS and BSC as existing theoretical frameworks. The second phase consisted of two iterative cycles of testing and refinement of the framework in practice. For both cycles, the researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with the school’s principal, one member of the school’s governing body and one member of the school’s management team of the four selected schools. The third phase was a reflection on the design process to enhance the application of the framework.College of Accounting Sciences
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Henery, Michael. "The system design of a radar track-while-scan facility utilizing modern digital techniques." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16757.
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Smith, Michael Harrison. "Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49387.
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The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic growth from a range of environmental pressures such as greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss and natural resource degradation, freshwater extraction, air pollution, waste and hazardous waste. By clearly differentiating between economic and physical growth and focusing on how to achieve significant decoupling this thesis advances the traditional debates and discourses about “growth”.
This thesis shows that in theory and practice it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling, and thus environmental sustainability, whilst maintaining economic growth. This thesis examines the relative costs of inaction versus action on decoupling, concluding that the costs of inaction significantly outweigh the costs of action. It also examines whether a transition to environmental sustainabilty will lead to net job losses or gains, showing that, with effective policy, it can result in net employment gains. As such, this thesis provides a new integration to show that it is possible to reconcile the need to simultaneously achieve environmental sustainability, economic growth and job creation. This result has important implications for other important sustainability debates such as the climate change debates. These are explored in detail in this thesis.
This thesis also demonstrates that many social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health –correlate strongly with improved economic growth. Thus this thesis demonstrates that it is possible to create a new form of economic growth that is also environmentally and socially sustainable as called for in the seminal text on sustainable development "Our Common Future" in 1987. Finally, this thesis is a formal defense of and contribution to the academic field of ecological modernization which has hypothesized that it is possible to simultaneously pursue environmental sustainability, social justice and economic growth in ways that mutually re-enforce each other. This thesis provides significant evidence to support this central tenet of ecological modernisation. The research of this thesis has helped inform and contribute to several international book publications all of which show nations how to achieve significant decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures such as Cents and Sustainability:Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures (Earthscan, 2010).
Note: This thesis was submitted in April 2006 and was awarded in September 2009.
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"Does Self-Regulated Learning-Skills Training Improve High-School Students' Self-Regulation, Math Achievement, and Motivation While Using an Intelligent Tutor?" Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17863.
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abstract: This study empirically evaluated the effectiveness of the instructional design, learning tools, and role of the teacher in three versions of a semester-long, high-school remedial Algebra I course to determine what impact self-regulated learning skills and learning pattern training have on students' self-regulation, math achievement, and motivation. The 1st version was a business-as-usual traditional classroom teaching mathematics with direct instruction. The 2rd version of the course provided students with self-paced, individualized Algebra instruction with a web-based, intelligent tutor. The 3rd version of the course coupled self-paced, individualized instruction on the web-based, intelligent Algebra tutor coupled with a series of e-learning modules on self-regulated learning knowledge and skills that were distributed throughout the semester. A quasi-experimental, mixed methods evaluation design was used by assigning pre-registered, high-school remedial Algebra I class periods made up of an approximately equal number of students to one of the three study conditions or course versions: (a) the control course design, (b) web-based, intelligent tutor only course design, and (c) web-based, intelligent tutor + SRL e-learning modules course design. While no statistically significant differences on SRL skills, math achievement or motivation were found between the three conditions, effect-size estimates provide suggestive evidence that using the SRL e-learning modules based on ARCS motivation model (Keller, 2010) and Let Me Learn learning pattern instruction (Dawkins, Kottkamp, & Johnston, 2010) may help students regulate their learning and improve their study skills while using a web-based, intelligent Algebra tutor as evidenced by positive impacts on math achievement, motivation, and self-regulated learning skills. The study also explored predictive analyses using multiple regression and found that predictive models based on independent variables aligned to student demographics, learning mastery skills, and ARCS motivational factors are helpful in defining how to further refine course design and design learning evaluations that measure achievement, motivation, and self-regulated learning in web-based learning environments, including intelligent tutoring systems.Dissertation/Thesis
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Chen, Yu-Rou, and 陳育柔. "Cost Minimization Design for Air-Conditioning Systems in Green Buildings Using Whale Optimization Algorithm-Taking Office Buildings for Example." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dz2459.
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The electric power consumption of air-conditioning system occupies a large proportion of total consumption of a building. Therefore, a good design for the configuration of air-conditioning system takes an important part of saving energy. However, the budget is often the main consideration for most owners. In order to take account of the energy saving and the cost of green buildings simultaneously, this research aims to develop a model for cost minimization design. In the model, EEWH, Taiwanese green building standards, and LEED, U.S. green building standards, are considered and The Whale Optimization Algorithm is applied to search the optimal solution. The model will find the configuration with the lowest cost in the premise of achieving the optimal score of EEWH or LEED. This research verifies The Whale Optimization Algorithm and the calculation of energy consumption. The result shows that comparing The Whale Optimization Algorithm with The Exhaustive Method, the error is only 1%, and the speed is 66961 times that of The Exhaustive Method. It can be seen that the efficiency and accuracy of The Whale Optimization Algorithm is good enough. In the other part, the calculation of energy consumption is verified by EnergyPlus. The result shows that the error of the energy consumption calculation of the system is 6~12 %. In addition, this research develops clear and simple user interface. Through this system, users can easily input basic building information, and get the output of the air-conditioning configuration with the lowest cost and achieving optimal score in a short time.