Computer-Aided Design Engineering

Information and computer technology support has played an important role in the success of product development processes in the last decades. As these technologies are evolving, new opportunities emerge for supporting concept generation, product and process modeling, virtual behavioral simulation, communication and collaboration, and data and document management in product design processes. As a trend, early analogue and digital technologies are gradually evolving into web-hosted, mobile and ubiquitous technologies. This section aims at the exploration, adaption and application of existing and emerging ICT to support design processes of products and product-service systems. The research is motivated by the emergence of a wide spectrum of devices and products based on ubiquitous ICT (wireless, mobile) technologies and the expectation that they posses a large potential to open up new dimensions of design support, which can then be extended from being available at the desktop only to other locations, where stakeholders meet, prototypes are being evaluated etc. The Section of Computer Aided Design Engineering has decided to adapt its focus of disciplinary and operative research after the last education and research visitation, shifting its the attention ubiquitous enablers for designing.