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Guerrilla User and Design Research
May be worth including in resources for grad student research.
U.S. Department of Energy's Introduction to System Dynamics
"Welcome to the Office of Policy and International Affairs's Introduction to System Dynamics (V1.0). This online book was written to introduce system dynamics, a powerful methodology for framing, understanding, and discussing complex policy issues and problems. "
Requirements Quality Metrics: The Basis of Informed Requirements Engineering Management
"Available data demonstrates that defective requirements are a dominant cause of cost and schedule overrun in technical programs. This paper presents a structured methodology for measuring the quality of requirements, individually and collectively. It is shown that requirements may be characterized by ten quality factors, each with an associated metric, and by two overall requirements quality metrics. In addition, the requirements engineering process itself can be instrumented by means of five process-related metrics. The paper describes the author’s experience with application of both types of metric to engineering decision making."
Award Winning Dump Truck of the Future! | Design Sojourn
Would be interesting to analyze the design from an engineering point of view, and see if it's got more than a pretty face.
Discover Your True Home!
Once fully implemented, they're supposed to be using criteria informed by cognitive science to describe what a good home is.
Innovation in Practice: How to Innovate!
This step-by-step method helps you invent new products or services using templates. Templates channel your creative thinking so you can innovate in a completely new way. It is not brainstorming. It is a structured process to focus your creative output.\nWorth following up on.
The Design Structure Matrix (DSM)
The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) is a simple tool to perform both the analysis and the management of complex systems. It enables the user to model, visualize, and analyze the dependencies among the entities of any system and derive suggestions for the improvement or synthesis of a system.
Work - Human Centered Design Toolkit - IDEO
"For years, organizations have used Human-Centered Design (HCD) to arrive at innovative business solutions. In collaboration with the Gates Foundation and non-profit groups IDE, ICRW, and Heifer International, IDEO has specially adapted this process for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities around the world. The resulting HCD Toolkit helps organizations understand people’s needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind."
Welcome to INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
A huge portal for scholarly research publications.
Curriki - WebHome
A wiki-like portal for sharing courseware and content for k12 and college/university. Interesting concept, well executed.
Strategy by Design - Articles - News - IDEO
Article by Tim Brown about design thinking and strategy in business.
100 Years of Design Manifestos -- Social Design Notes
A chronology of manifestos regarding designerly thinking. Many are linked online versions of the actual manifestos.
Harold Jarche » Sense-making with PKM
(Mar 2009, H. Jarche) Blog article about learning, reflection, and managing knowledge.\nPossibly useful for courseware.
How to Save the World
(Jul 2004, D. Pollard) Blog article about critical thinking.\nPossibly useful for courseware.
Harold Jarche » Web tools for critical thinking
(Sep 2007, H. Jarche) Short article about web tools for critical thinking.\nPossibly useful for courseware
Teaching Argument & Critical Thinking | Dartmouth College
(2004) Overview on teaching argumentation and critical thinking.\nPossibly useful for courseware.
Grid Beam Building System
Portal for "grid beams," a kind of erector set for adults. Grid Beam is a reusable structural system that allows you to dream-up and build complex projects quickly and easily.\nPossibly usable in education.
Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
(2009, NYTimes) Article about recent research suggesting there is classism in the use of social media. The quality of the reporting is very weak - hard to say if I agree with the conclusions.
Structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalogue
L.F. Spiteri. Webology 4(2), 2007.
Folksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogues by enabling clients to: store, maintain, and organize items of interest in the catalogue using their own tags. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the tags that constitute folksonomies are structured. Tags were acquired over a thirty-day period from the daily tag logs of three folksonomy sites, Del.icio.us, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against section 6 (choice and form of terms) of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) guidelines for the construction of controlled vocabularies. This evaluation revealed that the folksonomy tags correspond closely to the NISO guidelines that pertain to the types of concepts expressed by the tags, the predominance of single tags, the predominance of nouns, and the use of recognized spelling. Potential problem areas in the structure of the tags pertain to the inconsistent use of the singular and plural form of count nouns, and the incidence of ambiguous tags in the form of homographs and unqualified abbreviations or acronyms. Should library catalogues decide to incorporate folksonomies, they could provide clear guidelines to address these noted weaknesses, as well as links to external dictionaries and references sources such as Wikipedia to help clients disambiguate homographs and to determine if the full or abbreviated forms of tags would be preferable.
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