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Building Design to Improve the Ease of Wayfinding in Unfamiliar Public Buildings

Investigate wayfinding behaviour and how building design can influence wayfinding performance. Documents one observation and two experiments studying wayfinding behaviour.

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An Experimental Design Matrix that Prevents Narrow Minds in Design Education

This paper will discuss and evaluate an experimental design guide for design major student that promotes risk-taking and design flexibility.

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Cultural and Aesthetic Factors in Power Plant Design Preferences

The major facets of an aesthetic perspective from functions, aesthetic appeal, restoration, attraction, visual appeal and norms in current studies indicate a prospect of an environmental indicator with cultural notions.

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Beyond Reality: Designing Within the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment

A proposal and implementation tactic for improved design process utilizing computer simulation tools in the CAVE environment.

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Back to the Future: “Cuboctahedron” Revisited

Tracing the Meaning of “Cuboctahedron”, a Geometrical Figure, in the Works of Art of Seljuk Turks in Anatolia around 13th century in Kayseri

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Context, Continuity and Texture in the Designed Environment: Bridging Psychoanalysis and Design

This work, bridging psychoanalytic theory and design research, proposes a model for understanding the role that context, continuity and texture in the designed environment play in inner life.

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Guiding Interdisciplinary Design Collaborations in the Studio Classroom

This paper presentation will discuss and illustrate lessons learned through the teaching of a true interdisciplinary design studio.

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Language, Form and Deception: The Unwritten Design of AG Fronzoni

An exercise in the use of linguistic and aesthetic categories to read between the lines of graphic designer AG Fronzoni's work.

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Towards a Conceptual Model for an Assessment of Multimedia Characteristics on Design Students’ CAD Learning Performance

The aim of this paper is to report on an ongoing study, which seeks to investigate the effect of multimedia on-improved CAD learning. This includes learners’ performance, motivation and retention.

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Design Education in Russia: The Experience of the Master of Design Course

The paper presents a concept and first results of a long-term educational programme of the MD course in Russia. The novelty consists in the regional approach of masters research projects.

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