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 addresses the problem of understanding creative engagement with interactive systems. A model of engagement is proposed which represents modalities and phases of interactive experiences. The model was derived ...

This article suggests that it may be timely to action the relationship between design and evolution. While this view is not particularly new, the form of its expression here may be. It is noted that the exponential ...

Thomas Kuhn described scientific progress as a process of leaps and bounds. Long periods of `normal science¿, in which a research community works within a well-established and fruitful paradigm, end when there is a build-up ...

Going beyond the confines of single disciplines is a hallmark of late C20th and C21st knowledge systems. Contemporary biological and ecological reconceptions of Architectural Design, as a complex dynamic system, illustrate ...

In Australia, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is one of the conventional tools used widely by the public and the private sectors in the appraisal of projects, It measures and compares the total costs and benefits of projects ...

There have been major shifts in learning goals, curricula and pedagogy over the past century, particularly the last thirty years. In the last decade the area of learning space design has emerged as a key research focus, ...

A fuzzy-goal optimization-based method has been developed for solving fuzzy multiple objective linear programming (FMOLP) problems where fuzzy parameters in both objective functions and constraints and fuzzy goals ...