1. A Framework for Visualization-Driven Eco-Conscious Design Exploration
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Karthik Ramani, Niklas Elmqvist, Devarajan Ramanujan, William Benjamin, William Z. Bernstein, Jeffrey D. Tew, and Devadatta Madhukar Kulkarni
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Engineering ,Visual analytics ,Product design ,business.industry ,Design knowledge ,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design ,Data science ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Computer Science Applications ,Visualization ,Metadata ,Design exploration ,Sustainability ,Multidimensional visualization ,Systems engineering ,business ,Software - Abstract
A large portion of design activity involves applying previous design knowledge in order to solve new problems. Therefore, facilitating eco-conscious exploration of archived designs is needed for advancing sustainable product design. It is thus necessary to create integrated exploration tools that share common data representations for design and sustainability-related product metadata. This can allow designers to observe covariations in design data and develop engineering intuition with regards to environmental sustainability performance. In this work, we present a framework for relating sustainability and product metadata using taxonomy-based representations of lifecycle data. This facilitates simultaneous visualization of environmental indicators along with part similarities. To demonstrate this framework, we implement shapeSIFT, an interactive multidimensional visualization tool for eco-conscious design exploration. shapeSIFT uses a visual analytics-based approach to represent part metadata and environmental indicators. This facilitates query-based dynamic exploration of part repositories.
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- 2015
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