Vivek Rao

Journal Article Design Studies · September 1, 2023 Throughout the design process, designers encounter diverse stimuli that influence their work. This influence is particularly notable during idea generation processes that are augmented by novel design support tools that assist in inspiration discovery. How ... Full text Cite

Embedding Experiential Design Knowledge in Interactive Knowledge Graphs

Journal Article Journal of Mechanical Design · April 1, 2023 Knowledge collection, extraction, and organization are critical activities in all aspects of the engineering design process. However, it remains challenging to surface and organize design knowledge, which often contains implicit or tacit dimensions that ar ... Full text Cite

"Like a Moodboard, But More Interactive": The role of expertise in designers' mental models and speculations on an intelligent design assistant

Chapter · January 4, 2023 The successful adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tools in engineering design requires an understanding of designers' mental models of such tools. This work explores how professional and student engineering designers (1) develop mental models ... Full text Cite

Exploring designers' encounters with unexpected inspirational stimuli

Chapter · January 4, 2023 In prior work on designers' search for inspirational stimuli, random discovery of stimuli through passive search processes has been underexplored. This paper primarily investigates how unintentionally discovered stimuli influence design outcomes, and why d ... Full text Cite

JOURNEY MAPPING THE VIRTUAL DESIGN THINKING EXPERIENCE: ENGAGING STUDENTS ACROSS DISCIPLINES IN HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2023 Practitioners’ and students’ experiences while engaging in design thinking and human-centered design activities is well understood to shape outcomes of those activities. However, an understanding of the trajectory of experiences that characterizes the desi ... Full text Cite

Project-Based Learning in Disaster Response: Designing Solutions with Sociotechnical Complexity

Conference Proceedings of the Design Society · May 1, 2022 Design education increasingly blends technology learning with sociotechnical challenges, but little is understood about how students simultaneously engage with both of these elements. In this preliminary study, we describe the results of two offerings of a ... Full text Cite

Design for cybersecurity (DfC) cards: A creativity-based approach to support designers' consideration of cybersecurity

Chapter · February 24, 2022 As new products exhibit increasing connectivity, cybersecurity will become ever more important to the safety and functionality of these new offerings. Product designers, however, struggle to integrate cybersecurity with other considerations during early-st ... Full text Cite

INVESTIGATING THE ROLES OF EXPERTISE AND MODALITY IN DESIGNERS’ SEARCH FOR INSPIRATIONAL STIMULI

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2022 Designers can benefit from inspirational stimuli when presented during the design process. Encountering external stimuli can also lead designers to negative design outcomes by limiting exploration of the design space and idea generation. Prior work has inv ... Full text Cite

DESIGNING PRIVACY RISK FRAMEWORKS FOR EVOLVING CYBER-PHYSICAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS: KNOWLEDGE GAPS ILLUMINATED BY THE CASE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND BYSTANDER PRIVACY

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2022 Designers and engineers increasingly engage with and must design for sociotechnical systems, also described as cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS). Leading frameworks like System-Theoretic Process Analysis and Value-Sensitive Design intend to help designe ... Full text Cite

CAPTURING DESIGNERS’ EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE IN SCALABLE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR PRODUCT TEARDOWNS

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2022 Knowledge collection, extraction, and organization are critical activities in all aspects of the engineering design process. However, it remains challenging to surface and organize design knowledge in a scalable and accessible manner given it often contain ... Full text Cite

EXAMINING A TRAJECTORY OF COMPLEX SYSTEM DESIGN PROCESSES: AIRPORT ECO-SYSTEM CASE STUDIES BY NOVICE STUDENT TEAMS

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2022 As the aviation industry has become more complex and uncertain, we need to teach aviation topics with different pedagogical approaches: making the educational setting interdisciplinary and more design- and user-driven. We developed a design curriculum to a ... Full text Cite

Designing for Cervical Cancer Screening in Rural Nicaragua: A Case Study in the Informal Emergence of Complex Human-Centered Service Design

Journal Article International Journal of Design · January 1, 2022 Global health access and delivery in low-and middle-income countries constitutes a complex challenge for service design. While previous studies have examined how human-centered design (HCD) methods can make an impact on global health challenges, how HCD is ... Full text Cite

Framing and tracing human-centered design teams' method selection: An examination of decision-making strategies

Journal Article Journal of Mechanical Design · March 1, 2021 Designers' choices of methods are well known to shape project outcomes. However, questions remain about why design teams select particular methods and how teams' decision-making strategies are influenced by project- and process-based factors. In this mixed ... Full text Cite

DYNAMIC PLACEMENT OF RAPIDLY DEPLOYABLE MOBILE SENSOR ROBOTS USING MACHINE LEARNING AND EXPECTED VALUE OF INFORMATION

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) · January 1, 2021 Although the Industrial Internet of Things has increased the number of sensors permanently installed in industrial plants, there will be gaps in coverage due to broken sensors or sparse density in very large plants, such as in the petrochemical industry. M ... Full text Cite

The influence of team goal alignment and awareness on human-centered design team decision-making strategy

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2021 Design team decision-making underpins all activities in the design process. Simultaneously, goal alignment within design teams has been shown to be essential to the success of team activities, including engineering design. However, the relationship between ... Full text Cite

JOURNEY MAPPING THE VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING EXPERIENCE

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) · January 1, 2021 Reframing failure, individual problem solving, and access to technology are signatures of the “maker movement,” which directly inspired university makerspaces across the globe. In particular, university makerspaces have become a significant resource to stu ... Full text Cite

Understanding professional designers’ knowledge organization behavior: A case study in product teardowns

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2021 Knowledge organization is an essential component of engineering design, and a deeper understanding of how designers organize knowledge could enable more effective insights in support of the design process. To explore this, we examine 23 professional design ... Full text Cite

Supporting human-centered design in psychologically distant problem domains: The design for cybersecurity cards

Conference Proceedings of the Design Society · January 1, 2021 Increasingly digital products and services make cybersecurity a crucial issue for designers. However, human-centered designers struggle to consider it in their work, partially a consequence of the high psychological distance between designers and cybersecu ... Full text Cite

Method selection in human-centered design teams: An examination of decision-making strategies

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2020 Designers' choices of methods are well known to shape project outcomes. However, questions remain about why design teams select particular methodsand how teams' decision-making strategies are influenced by project- and process-based factors. In this work, ... Cite

Tracing stories across the design process: A study of engineering students’ engagement with storytelling in an undergraduate human-centered design course

Journal Article International Journal of Engineering Education · January 1, 2020 Stories help design teams develop shared understanding and vocabulary throughout the process of developing solutions and prototypes. While stories are widely acknowledged to be essential to the design process, their use by novice designers in university se ... Cite