A web-based simulation game as a learning tool for the design process of complex systems

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Bianconi ◽  
Stefano A. Saetta ◽  
Lorenzo Tiacci
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 2927-2955
Author(s):  
Mar Palmeros Parada ◽  
Lotte Asveld ◽  
Patricia Osseweijer ◽  
John Alexander Posada

AbstractBiobased production has been promoted as a sustainable alternative to fossil resources. However, controversies over its impact on sustainability highlight societal concerns, value tensions and uncertainties that have not been taken into account during its development. In this work, the consideration of stakeholders’ values in a biorefinery design project is investigated. Value sensitive design (VSD) is a promising approach to the design of technologies with consideration of stakeholders’ values, however, it is not directly applicable for complex systems like biorefineries. Therefore, some elements of VSD, such as the identification of relevant values and their connection to a technology’s features, are brought into biorefinery design practice. Midstream modulation (MM), an approach to promoting the consideration of societal aspects during research and development activities, is applied to promote reflection and value considerations during the design decision making. As result, it is shown that MM interventions during the design process led to new design alternatives in support of stakeholders' values, and allowed to recognize and respond to emerging value tensions within the scope of the project. In this way, the present work shows a novel approach for the technical investigation of VSD, especially for biorefineries. Also, based on this work it is argued that not only reflection, but also flexibility and openness are important for the application of VSD in the context of biorefinery design.


2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa Ribeiro Pereira de Almeida ◽  
Anja Pratschke ◽  
Renata La Rocca

This paper draws on current research on complexity and design process in architecture and offers a proposal for how architects might bring complex thought to bear on the understanding of design process as a complex system, to understand architecture as a way of organizing events, and of organizing interaction. Our intention is to explore the hypothesis that the basic characteristics of complex systems – emergence, nonlinearity, self-organization, hologramaticity, and so forth – can function as effective tools for conceptualization that can usefully extend the understanding of the way architects think and act throughout the design process. To illustrate the discussions, we show how architects might bring complex thought inside a transdisciplinary design process by using models such as software engineering diagrams, and three-dimensional modeling network environments such as media to integrate, connect and ‘trans–act’.


Author(s):  
J. Soler ◽  
I. Boada ◽  
F. Prados ◽  
J. Poch ◽  
R. Fabregat

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla L. Spagnoletti ◽  
Thuy Bui ◽  
Gary S. Fischer ◽  
Alda Maria R. Gonzaga ◽  
Doris M. Rubio ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotiris Moschoyiannis ◽  
Nicholas Elia ◽  
Alexandra S. Penn ◽  
David J.B. Lloyd ◽  
Chris Knight
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2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago de Ossorno Garcia ◽  
Louisa Salhi ◽  
Aaron Sefi ◽  
Terry Hanley

Single-session, brief interventions in therapy for young people make up a large proportion of service provision, including in digital mental health settings. Current nomothetic mental health measures are not specifically designed to capture the benefit or ‘change’ directly related to these brief interventions. As a consequence, we set out to design an outcome measure to concretely demonstrate the value of single-session interventions. The Session Wants and Needs Outcome Measure (SWAN-OM) aims to capture in-session goals and focuses on being user-centric, elements critical to the success of single-session and brief interventions which typically are asset-based and solution-focused. We describe the 4-stage process that was followed to develop this measure: (I) classical item generation and development, (II) content and (III) face validity pilot testing, and (IV) a user-experience approach with young people using framework analysis. This final stage was critical to ensure the integration of this outcome tool into a web-based digital therapy setting, a context which adds another layer of design complexity to item and measure development. This iterative methodology was used to overcome the challenges encountered and to place the needs of the young people and service practitioners at the centre of the design process, thus ensuring measure usability. To end, we highlight the main lessons learnt from engaging in this design process. Specifically, the needs of a measure for single-session interventions are considered, before outlining the learning associated with integrating the measure into a digital mental health platform. Both of these areas are emerging fields and, as such, this study contributes to our understanding of how an idiographic patient outcome theory driven measure can be created for use in a web-based digital mental health therapy service.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Yousef

In this paper we introduce Ugarit a web-based tool for manual translation alignment of parallel texts, the aim was to build a user interface to create training data in form of translation pairs to be used later for an automatic translation alignment system at word/phrase level, the tool now is widely used as reading environment for parallel texts and a languages learning tool. The paper gives a short overview of the visualization techniques used to present the alignment results and shows how the translation graph derived from the aligned translation pairs.


Author(s):  
Nelda Melissa ◽  
Lisa Chavez ◽  
John Winters

Panelists from military, government, and industry areas were asked to discuss efforts to educate their respective workforces on Human Factors (HF) or Human Systems Integration (HSI). The efforts varied in terms of breadth (general to specific) and implementation (classroom or web-based). Still, some commonalities existed across training and education programs, including a focus on embedding HSI and human factors into the acquisition and design process and in presenting human factors as a risk mitigation method.


2012 ◽  
Vol 544 ◽  
pp. 170-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Yan ◽  
Ping Jiang ◽  
Wei Jia Li ◽  
Jun Yan ◽  
Long Wen

Shipbuilding is a very important industry for its irreplaceable role into the sea transport and oceans exploration. But ship production design is a very complex process, causing the inefficiency of the shipbuilding. At the same time, the current situation of most shipbuilding enterprises is the multi-project environment and the resources among them are shared, the large and complex systems are hardly to simulate. In this research, a multi-resources oriented hierarchical timed petri net (HTPN) are constructed to model the ship production design process under the multi-project environment and a WFPN software is developed based on HTPN. To evaluate the efficiency and applicability of WFPN, a case study is conducted and the results show that it’s practicable. Beside on it, the analyses of the resource loads are also providing a way to promote the efficiency of the shipbuilding enterprises.


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