This paper presents a damage identification method based on ambient floor vibration measurements in multi-storey buildings. The proposed method uses ambient response vibration data to fannulate a damage index based on ...

An international festival of works made for the mobile phone

Dramatic changes in conventional work practices through the implementation of remote access working, better known as "teleworking" or "telecommuting", is just becoming a reality in Australia. This paper aims to research ...

In this paper we explore an analogy between design and ethics, first drawn by Whitbeck. We investigate her claim that such an analogy can help to understand moral problems and aid us in dealing with them by suggesting ...

In this paper, we present an action-theoretical account of use and design. Central to this account is the notion of a user plan, which leads us to distinguish a cycle of plan design from one of artefact design. We comment ...

This paper reviews the case for cultural and creative design collectives in design education. Higher education taught design courses use a diversity of studio models ranging from the atelier format in which students have ...

Evolution is a way of explaining of what results from interrelated random processes, not the mechanism that brings about those results. From the moment ofthis theory's inception, the danger of extrapolating from evolutionary ...