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The ongoing shift in mechatronics towards an increasing importance of information technology leads to increased discipline interfaces and increasing product complexity. Requirements engineering is a core aspect, in particularly, in interdisciplinary development. Here, methods can support engineers to handle complexity and coordinate development across disciplines. This contribution provides a literature...
User-driven Customization (UDC) is a promising concept to react on current developments in the markets. However, until now no successful applications of UDC for technical products exist. Therefore, this paper develops and implements a continuous toolchain for UDC from the customization toolkit via an OI-platform to the production back-end. The resulting prototype achieves the proof of concept for...
User Experience Design (UXD) addresses the increasing importance of emotional aspects in user product interaction and aims at creating holistic experiences. While UXD is a rather young field within product development, other disciplines outside engineering design (e.g. gaming, sports) traditionally focus on fascinating their users. Based on the approach of transferring insights from experience focused...
In evolutionary grown mechatronic systems, the involved disciplines are often not sufficiently integrated. For optimization and improvement of this situation, the system and its functional dependencies are modeled. During the steps of defining objects and building up the model, the identification of functional dependencies is challenging. This contribution presents an approach to support these steps...
The design of User Experience (UX) demands the consideration of expectations and remembrance on the product use. We think of mental models (widely used in usability) as being a good approach to influence expectations, although emotional aspects are not considered so far. In this paper we introduce the concept of Emotional Mental Models and corresponding product descriptions to help researchers, designers,...
The high degree of uncertainty and complexity of Simultaneous Engineering processes lead to the persistent occurrence of unforeseen situations constituting the deviation (Δ) of product of process properties (IS-state) from an initially established or assumed value (TO-BE-state). The consequence of the identification of these Δs often is the necessity of the (partial) repetition of activities or phases,...
Dynamic changes and variations play a decisive role in innovation processes. By addressing the aspect of cycles that is reoccurring temporal or structural patterns within development processes as well as in their context, this research contributes to an enhanced understanding of complex dynamic interdependencies. Therefore, two development projects are analyzed and a series of interviews with industry...
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