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Abstract:Mosque is the heart of the Islamic architecture. Since the dawn of Islam until now, mosques are still considered one of the most important places and facilities for Muslims. Muslims gather for prayer in the mosque five times a day, where mosque serves not only for worshiping, but also as a meeting point for Islamic social and intellectual activities that usually reflect religious identity.Indeed, Muslims are doing all their best to preserve and maintain their mosques as an overarching privilege that enhances their religious, social and cultural interactions. Despite the unlimited number of mosques all over the world and the noticeable increasing interest in developing their architectural, structural, fundamental elements, there is a less interest in developing, modernizing and updating the mosque furniture and its accessories.Accordingly, this research paper mainly focuses on clarifying the importance of developing these furniture and accessories that meet the physical and psychological requirements of the mosque visitors (worshipers) as these items and accessories enhance and improve worshipers’ experience inside mosques. In a sequential manner, the paper brief the evolving role of the mosque (from ancient times until today), and then explains its value as an Islamic architectural beacon. The paper goes into depth in diagnosing and discussing significant needs for updating mosque furniture and accessories, by highlighting weakness or shedding light on what is not available. In this context, the researcher present and discuss many contemporary design paths for mosque furniture, in addition to clarifying many different ideas for accessories by presenting drawings and details of many design ideas for contemporary mosque furniture (Footwear shelving system, locker system, chairs …). Moreover, it highlighting some contemporary ideas for various accessories, such as: The Holy Quran reading holder and the central chandeliers in the mosque.Keywords:Mosque, Islamic architecture, design, mosque furniture, mosque accessories.

The prediction of stress-strain behaviour in soils is a problem that can be approached in different ways depending on the design scenario. In some cases, a multi-parameter constitutive model calibrated with non-routine soil tests may be appropriate, for example, where a model has been developed for the relevant soil at a building site subject to complex loading. However, simple characteristic parameters are desirable for examining the variability of soil behaviour especially at regional scales. This paper describes a method of assessing the suitability of simple models for simulating non-linear undrained soil stress-strain behaviour in the moderate strain range. The moderate strain range is defined by a soil strength mobilisation of 20% to 80%. Three simple stress-strain models are compared. A published database of reconstituted triaxial tests is used to evaluate the three models with selected statistical tools that quantify errors associated with the simple model approximation of the relationship between stress and strain. The paper discusses the value of computing the model error and the trade off to make between introducing a greater number of parameters (and tests) for model precision and limiting the complexity of the variability characterisation.

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The issues of improving the treatment of surface runoff (SRO), generated on the territory of communities of various functionality, in particular, the design of flow-type local facilities for surface runoff treatment are considered. It is noted that SRO generated on the territory of cities and communities is an intensive source of technogenic pollution of water bodies and affect the ecological safety of the urban environment. Herewith, to the front burner go the issues of developing advanced process systems for SRO treatment that provide for applying the latest developments of the sectoral research; as well as of upgrading the existing process schemes for SRO treatment, with account of the new approaches to the regulation of the pollution discharge into water bodies. The paper discusses the principle of decentralization of surface runoff treatment systems using biological treatment facilities. Based on experimental studies of the SRO composition the paper presents a list of the priority pollution indicators needed for designing SRO treatment systems. The recommended classification of flow-type SRO treatment facilities widely used in the engineering design, is given. The paper describes a new design of a flow-type SRO treatment plant developed as a result of the experimental studies with real SRO with a utility patent obtained.

The present paper addresses the concepts of cloth, fashion and wearable technologies and analysis the way in which cloths and fashion are theorized and the way in which the integration of electronic components and digital devices into the structure of the fabrics are creating precedencies for the transformation of cloth into a technology. By mapping some of the key concepts in fashion theory and their relationship to the definition of personhood, community and society, we are going to show how the first wearable technologies have taken into consideration these concepts in their design processes. Based on our analysis we will emphasize the importance of political stance when it comes to the design of communicative cloths and fashionable technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to address the issue of space in work organization in the context of the development of digital technology and space. We offer an insight into flex offices as a new model of workspace. This paper is anchored in the field of the ergonomics with a focus on activity. We describe the link between work activity and space. The paper is organized into six parts. The first part deals with the specificity of space in work organizations. The relation to subordination is singular and linked to work in companies. It is possible to distinguish between spaces dedicated to work and other types of space. Working space is different from housing or urban space. The second part proposes a theoretical approach to space as a framework to simultaneously reach work activity and its space. The space designed by the organization or designers (the space of the task) differs from the space modeled by the work activity (the space of the activity). The third part examines the evolution of digital technology in the context of spaces dedicated to work. A link is observed between the development of digital technology and the evolution of space in companies. The fourth part presents the case study and the methods used to provide feedback after installation in a flex office. The fifth part develops the main results of the analysis by focusing on the characteristics of the spaces in the flex office model. The first two characteristics focus on how space, designed by designers, participates in the task. The last two characteristics show how the work activity unfolds and takes place in new spaces. The sixth and final part opens up perspectives from a work perspective.

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How to make the transition from an historical collection of paper to its digital version? Drawing from the research program “Collecta. Digital Archive of the Gaignières Collection (1642-1715)”, based on the interaction of art history, computer science and design, this article proposes to study the adaptation processes that take place during such a transfer. To study this phenomenon, two other artistic practices and techniques of reproduction and mass diffusion – engraving and cinema – will be discussed because their devices and operating methods entail adaptation processes. Far from confusing them, the aim is to identify what is happening during this change of media (from paper to screen), to find out the potentialities of digital techniques in terms of reading, classification and access to knowledge, and also to discover what André Bazin calls, with regard to cinema, their “aesthetic structures” and their “specific means of action”.

This paper places video games within the area of what I call “designed experiences”. Designed experiences are experiences – in the real world or via media – that are designed to elicit specific effects or affects. In previous work I have investigated how teachers, in their classrooms, or game designers, in their games, design experiences that are meant, in both cases, to lead to learning. However, designed experiences can be intended to elicit other things than learning. They can also seek to elicit things such as social change, attitude or behavioral changes, emotions, or other effects of (or on) the body, the mind, or the soul. In this paper I take up the relationship between games as designed experiences and games as art.

Technical communication (TC) as a subject, and more so a department in the university curriculum are few and far between in the Japanese educational context, even with STEM education. As part of this paper, an exploratory pilot study is described explaining the overall importance of such a TC certificate program and how an optional TC feeder course could help students understand the value of the TC and professional communication (PC) discipline for a typical Japanese computer science academic context, in preparation for the job market. Further, such a TC-focused introductory feeder course helps the university administration, students and teachers better understand how computer science as a discipline should also emphasize on technical and professional writing and communication skills in the language curriculum, for better project management, and helping students develop soft skills for the market. Further, another strong argument for such coursework (offered in English as a medium of instruction) is also related to developing students’ entrepreneurial and transition skills for the market. This paper highlighted on one such rare certificate program and feeder course in the computer science (CS) department of a Japanese technical university which helped students understand the scope of the market, how technical communication as a discipline has wide-ranging opportunities, besides helping students develop basic understanding of content areas such as manual and information design, usability, content management and delivery, technical language, visualisation etc. Finally, the paper ends with a discussion of a few of the well-known TC certificate programs and TC organizational infrastructure in the US academia, and how we can catch up with that trend in Japanese higher education.

Due to the differentiation between the laws of member states in the field of designs and patterns, European Parliament and Council Directive no. 98/71/CE from October 13, 1998 on legal protection of designs and patters, has implemented a protection system of designs and patters adapted to domestic market needs. Based on the Directive no. 98/71/CE, Council Regulation (EU) no. 6/2002 from December 12, 2001 on community designs and patters has been issued, which is compulsory in all its elements and which applies directly in all member states. Thus, a special legal protection has been provided meant to encourage individual creators, to bring forward innovation, the development of new products and the investments in their fabrication. To implement the provisions of the Regulation (EU) no. 6/2002, Commission Regulation (EU) no. 2245/2002 from October 21, 2002 has been adopted. All these regulations are intended to provide protection of designs and patterns, and for this purpose two forms of protection are deemed as necessary, namely a long-term one, corresponding to the design or patters not registered, and a short-term one, corresponding to the design and patters registered. In this paper we shall present in detail these forms of protection, as well as the substantive and formal conditions necessary to be fulfilled for the registration of designs and patterns. The presentation shall be founded on legal regulations mentioned above that are enforceable and binding also on the Romanian territory, a legal protection of designs and patterns been thus provided not only inland but also intra-community. The purpose of the paper is to highlight also the necessity of designs and patterns protection, a sine-qua-non condition for the development of new products and investments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study presented in this paper is part of a project aiming at evaluating the potential use of aluminum in structures. The types of intervention could range from a simple repair or a reinforcement involving structural aluminum, the replacement of a used bridge deck by an aluminum deck, to the construction of a new bridge made in full or in part of aluminum. It is this latter type of intervention that justified a research project, the results of which are presented in this article. The first step involves identifying the most advantageous type of aluminum structural system from a structural standpoint as well as an economic standpoint. This step includes the analysis and partial design of 40 girder- or truss-type road bridges, spanning 15 and 35 m, supporting either an active concrete slab or an aluminum deck. These studies have shown that bridges built using a Pratt-type truss and an active concrete slab provided the best results. It is also shown that some calculation criteria, such as vibration, deflection, and fatigue criteria limited the extensive use of aluminum in bridges. In the second step, nine bridges are more comprehensively analysed and designed, based on the standards used in North America, and three are fully designed, including the connexions, in order to realize a cost analysis study that is as accurate as possible. Special attention is given to vibration and fatigue problems as well as to the details related to connexions calculation. The study concludes that the development of an aluminum-only medium span road bridge system is a non-viable project in the short to mid term from a structural standpoint as well as an economic standpoint, and it makes recommendations on the use of aluminum decks and on the continuation of the work.Key words: aluminum, analysis, bridges, connexions, design, fatigue, standards, vibration.[Journal translation]L'étude présentée dans cet article s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un projet visant à évaluer le potentiel d'utilisation de l'aluminium dans les ouvrages d'art. Le type d'intervention peut être une simple réparation ou un renforcement impliquant de l'aluminium structural, le remplacement d'un tablier de pont usagé par un tablier en aluminium ou, encore, la construction d'un nouveau pont entièrement ou en grande partie en aluminium. C'est ce dernier type d'intervention qui a justifié le projet de recherche dont les résultats font l'objet de cette présentation. Une première étape vise à identifier le type de système structural en aluminium le plus avantageux, tant du point de vue structural que du point de vue économique. Cette étape comprend l'analyse et le dimensionnement partiel de 40 ponts routiers de types poutres pleines ou à treillis, de 15 et 35 m de portée et supportant soit une dalle de béton participante, soit un tablier en aluminium. Ces travaux ont démontré que les ponts ayant des poutres triangulées de type Pratt et une dalle participante en béton armé présentent les meilleurs résultats. Il en ressort aussi que certains critères de calcul, tels les critères de vibration, de flèche et de fatigue limitent grandement l'utilisation de l'aluminium dans les ponts. Dans une deuxième étape, neuf ponts sont analysés et dimensionnés plus finement sur la base des normes en vigueur en Amérique du Nord et trois sont dimensionnés au complet, y compris les assemblages, dans le but de réaliser une étude comparative des coûts la plus précise possible. Une attention spéciale est portée aux problèmes de vibration et de fatigue ainsi qu'aux particularités du calcul des assemblages. L'étude conclut que le développement d'un système de pont routier entièrement en aluminium, de moyenne portée, est un projet non viable à court ou à moyen terme, tant du point de vue structural que du point de vue économique et fait des recommandations sur l'utilisation des tabliers en aluminium ainsi que sur la poursuite des travaux.Mots clés : aluminium, analyse, assemblages, dimensionnement, fatigue, normes, ponts, vibration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hotel and tourism sector in the State of Kuwait is one of the promising economic sectors that can contribute to generating the gross domestic product and thus diversify the sources of national income and expand the production base, as does other economic sectors such as the industrial, commercial, financial and agricultural sectors. And because the national heritage in many countries of the world is a fundamental pillar for tourism development, just as tourism is considered a means for gaining knowledge and spreading and exchanging culture, here comes the role of the interior designer in creating a design derived from this heritage in order to attract the tourist and push him to interact with the surrounding community. All the designs presented in this paper are full of details and highlight the heritage Kuwaiti identity. Where the classic style was developed and modernized through the pictorial metaphor (imitation) or the structural metaphor (abstraction), and the addition of some touches and details that combine in its folds luxury and simplicity.The declared trend towards transforming Kuwait into a global trade center and the required openness to the outside world and allowing foreign capital to participate in economic and social development projects, must be one of its most important components providing a level of distinguished hotel service with a special identity with regard to designing Interior of hotels, and this will certainly be one of the most important factors attracting the foreign investor. But despite the presence of the cultural heritage of the State of Kuwait, we still find it difficult to define the features of the heritage identity in the designs of its hotels. This prompted the researcher to find a new creative vision to revive the Kuwaiti identity to produce contemporary treatments for interior design and furniture.To illustrate how the knowledge gathered in this research can help create a design that embodies the Kuwaiti heritage identity while at the same time producing creative designs, the researcher used the metaphor of abstraction in designing a hypothetical hotel. The proposed interior design for the public areas of the hotel, which is the lobby and reception, produces the Kuwaiti identity in an allegorical design style.

This paper reports the qualitative findings of a mixed methods research study conducted at three Canadian post-secondary institutions. Called the Meaningful E-learning or MEL project, the study was an exploration of the teaching and learning experiences of faculty and students as well as their perceptions of the benefits and challenges of e-learning. Importantly, e-learning was conceptualized as the integration of pedagogy, instructional technology, and the Internet into teaching and learning environments. Based on this definition, participants reflected on e-learning in relation to one or more of the following contexts: face-to-face (f2f) classrooms in which instructional technologies (e.g. learning management systems, video and webconferencing, mobile devices, etc.) are used; blended or web-enhanced learning environments; and fully online learning environments. Data collected for the study included survey data (n=1377 for students, n=187 for faculty); narrative comments (n=269 for students, n=74 for faculty); and focus groups (n=16 for students, n=33 for faculty). The latter two sets of data comprise the basis of this paper. Four major themes emerged based on the responses of students and faculty. Represented by the acronym HIDI, the themes include human connection (H), IT support (I), design (D), and institutional infrastructure (I). These themes and sub-themes are presented in the paper as well as recommendations for educators and administrators who aspire to make e-learning a pedagogically meaningful experience for both learners and their teachers.

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This paper deals with the way the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica (Syfy, 2003-2009) creates a fictional world that can be conceived as focused on a closed system, the Colonial Fleet. It analyses how the series maintains a perpetual crisis inside a universe designed as vast and empty, with no other antagonistic force than the Cylons. The evolution of the general design of the Fleet, a nodal point of the establishing shots, is a major feature of the series’ aesthetics of entropy, along with the survivor count. The paper concludes with an exploration of the consequences of this closed system on a thematic level, highlighting the ambiguous divide between the physical “prison” of the Fleet and the characters’ dreams and visions.

Sand sieving machine has the function to sieve sand and stone that mixed together. The sand and the stone cannot process further if they mix. Thus, this machine will help operator work which was doing sieve with no machine mechanism. With machine mechanism driven by human power will reduce the time to sieve. The objective of this paper is hopefully can make the best concept design in terms of production costs and production capacity. The stages of evaluation design begin with functional decomposition, concept making with morphology matrix and concept evaluations with feasibility judgment, go or no go screening and basic decision matrix. In evaluating the product, one or several of the best concepts are chosen to further developed into products, based on selection criteria. The results of this design obtained the best concept of sand sieving machine in terms of efficiency, energy, and flexibility. From this paper, it can be concluded that the design of this sand sieve will environmentally friendly and bring many benefits, is positive and very good to continued.

This paper conceptualizes landscape from a temporal and spatial perspective which emphasizes peoples’ interactions and activities as an inherent part of understanding the landscape itself. Today, peoples’ interaction with the landscape has become more complex, largely owing to the changing notions of place in contemporary urban living. In this context, the paper examines the role and significance of the landscapes of everyday life in urban environment and delineates how it (re)constructs ordinary human and social meanings that are necessary conditions for our existence. The paper is presented in three sections. In the first section, it discusses the concept of everyday life and its relevance in the contemporary urban living. In the following section, it examines the complexities encountered in urban landscapes today .The third section of the paper discusses how meaningful interaction experienced with everyday landscapes offer valuable insights for addressing the challenges posed by the complexities of urban city living. The paper concludes by highlighting the need for attention towards the largely neglected or overlooked domains of ‘ordinary’ everyday landscape by designer professionals, which plays a crucial role in creating meaningful relationship between people and place.

Mobile learning has become increasingly popular in the past decade due to the unprecedented technological affordances achieved through the advancement of mobile computing, making ubiquitous and situated learning possible. At the same time, there have been research and implementation projects whose efforts centered on developing mobile learning experiences for various learners’ profiles, accompanied by the development of models and frameworks for designing mobile learning experiences. This paper focuses on categorizing and synthesizing models and frameworks targeted specifically on mobile learning. A total of 17 papers were reviewed, and the models or frameworks were divided into five categories and discussed: 1) pedagogies and learning environment design; 2) platform/system design; 3) technology acceptance; (4) evaluation; and 5) psychological construct. This paper provides a review and synthesis of the models/frameworks. The categorization and analysis can also help inform evaluation, design, and development of curriculum and environments for meaningful mobile learning experiences for learners of various demographics.

This article looks for some cultural elements from the collection of exquisite cultural relics to inherit and carry forward the spirit and culture expressed in the historical society. The cultural creative products designed in this paper are divided into stone carving series, tile series, bronze series and others. Each cultural and creative product has a text introduction, according to the existing modeling characteristics of cultural relics, the paper try to use the scene in the life practice. These measures are not only a form of development, but also inherit the history behind the collection of cultural relics.

Coursebook design is becoming more and more important in the teaching of ESP in Algeria. In fact, the teaching of scientific and technical English has become demanded at university and in private schools, which has rendered the need for coursebooks and their design pressing. Many researches and projects have been undertaken in this sense to help this kind of literature to spread and to become available for both teachers, students and professionals. In parallel, professional development has become one of the most discussed topics, in particular, in relation to the teaching field. Hence, this paper, which is a modest contribution in the development of coursebook design in ESP, aims at discussing the characteristics of professional development and the possibility of their insertion and application in ESP coursebook design.

Those objects that pretend to be simple and banal in appearance, often have unsuspected depths, since out of their most obvious function they can hide endless numerous nooks, interstices and secrets. This is the case of the 16th to 19th century iron harpoon from the coast of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. A sophisticated object assembled from multiple parts, hardly studied and never discussed, its uniqueness is that it possesses a pre-Columbian design combined with European materials. The following paper reveals an unknown find deposited in the British Museum in London, from which a reflection on the role of hybrid harpoons as a mechanism for resolving the technical and cultural tensions produced by the encounter between native residents and European outsiders in a littoral scenario.

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This paper describes the Reticulum workshop, a teaching experiment focused on the concept of network, involving students from two master’s courses (design and digital humanities). The workshop takes up the characteristics of the Reticulum conference cycle: interdisciplinary, interprofessional, intergenerational, intersecting knowledge and know-how. We present our approach as research-based teaching (with collaborative experimentation and knowledge production) and teaching-based research (with a study of conceptual pathways, technical choices and design mechanics). We analyse the workshop and its traces in order to show that the experiment is viable and reproducible; we examine the appropriation of the different techniques used during the workshop, and explain the underlying logics; finally, we describe the importance of modeling and visualising for reflective work, distinguishing between actual connectivity and interpretative connectivity.

In what way are chatbots new resources for humans? What are the conditions for their successful implementation? How do chatbots transform human activity? To answer these questions, this paper investigates how four chatbots were implemented and utilized in a professional context based on real user activity. We first show that the current design approach does not take sufficient account of the real activity and its multiple determinants, or of the users' point of view on their activity. Yet these interactive devices participate in a pre-existing socio-technical system made up of a diversity of subjects engaged in activities with multiple purposes. Through the prism of instrumental geneses, we therefore propose to identify how these chatbots can help or hinder human activity, so as to document, for design purposes, the conditions leading to the emergence of chatbot uses. After a synthetic presentation of the empirical results, we discuss the relevance of the instrumental approach when characterizing the contributions and limitations of chatbots. Finally, we argue that a design perspective supporting the postulate of human-machine asymmetry is prolific in supporting a design approach that is more focused on human power to act than on innovation.

The paper considers the requirements to helicopter operating conditions, forming geometrical constraints at the design stages and their influence on the geometrical appearance of the helicopter as a whole, structural design and layout of individual components and assemblies of helicopters. The methodology of forming the system of geometrical constraints is based on the generalised requirements to ensure the operational and technical characteristics of the helicopter: ensuring the basing and production of take-off and landing operations on marine vessels, ensuring transportability, ease of access to the cockpit, ease of access to the units during maintenance, reducing the labour intensity of individual helicopter maintenance operations.

The paper presents a methodology of forming a system of geometric constraints in helicopter design. The methodology is based on the synthesis of the requirements in terms of ensuring operation on marine vessels, transportability, and capacity of the cargo (transport) cabin of the helicopter. The universality of this approach allows to adapt the formed system of geometrical constraints to helicopters of different purposes, both to newly developed and modernised helicopters. This methodology allows to define general geometrical characteristics of the helicopter, nomenclature of units requiring simplification of mounting and dismounting procedure of separate units and reduction of their inspection and maintenance periodicity, as well as configuration of helicopter ground and deck service facilities and recommended places of their installation.

A data buoy for measuring coastal wave-action has been designed and constructed. The buoy is essentially a 0.6 m diameter sphere that is made of fiber-glass with aluminum, steel and polymer parts. While the overall geometry of the buoy is superficially similar to that of existing commercial spherical buoys (e.g. Wave-Rider by Datawell), the present design is based on a simple robust structure and mass-market electronics. A significant dual-use feature of this design is that the structure is usable as a float in a wave-energy generation device. This is possible due to the essentially isolated central structure and an electronics enclosure that is sealed both from the external environment and from the bulk shell of the buoy. This also allows the electronics to be mounted in an easily- modified, rack configuration that can be removed from the buoy shell. In a wave-energy generation set-up the electronics rack would be removed and the central cylinder will become part of a linear-motion type generator, with at least +/- 25 cm of internal movement available to it that is waterproof (for near surface or shallow immersions). Alternatively, for large wave motions, the buoy can couple to an energy-generating device using flanges that mate with its bolt circle pattern. However, at the moment, the buoy enclosure is dedicated to wave-action measurement, i.e., a data buoy with an onboard inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a radio-link to send real-time data to a receiving unit that can be on a boat or at the seashore. Basic GPS data are also transmitted. This is of interest if the buoy is being deployed in a drifting (un-moored) mode. This paper will only discuss the mechanical design and fabrication of the structure.

This paper systematically sorts out the development of maps and map culture, and takes it as a guide to focus on the design background, design ideas, production plans, and design results of Anhui map cultural products, providing a reference for the design and development of map cultural products in the future.

Although previous studies on artworks have highlighted value-based expressions among humans in a variety of styles, very little attention was directed to exploring the robustness of love manifested in ceramic arts, that is, an eternal love relationship between man and woman. To fill such a gap, this paper reports on the production of ceramic arts that express the robustness of love. The expression of the sturdiness of love is represented through forms and is reinforced by the material aspects of ceramic clay stoneware. To enact such a purpose, we deployed a creative approach in the production process, namely (a) the formulation of the concept of ceramic works, (b) creative exploration of the design of the work, (c) the processing of plastic clay stoneware taken from southern Malang, and (d) the creation of ceramic works with hand massage techniques directly and drying until the glaze burning process reached 1200 °C. This approach thus portrayed the representation of the solidity of love in the form of ceramic arts.

In this paper, we present the different elements of connection between users requirements and physical phenomena created during the use of products. We propose a structured methodology which goes from the analysis of the significant moments until the identification of the appreciation criteria of the user and design variables necessary to the product definition. The time decomposition of the product use in significant moments makes it possible to identify all actions realized by the user, to extract the physical effects and to qualify them in term of relevance. The methodological tools ensure the exhaustiveness of the analysis, to define the physical sizes associated with the criteria and the design variables as well as the relations between the criteria and design variables. Then we can take into account users requirements during preliminary design phase. This methodology is applied to the integration of the user requirements at the time of the opening for a telephone foldable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some features within the physical universe appear to be so well-ordered that they have been regarded as evidence of the existence of a supernatural being who has designed them. This history of the so-called design argument is millennia-long, and various formulations of the argument have been presented. In this paper, I explore one contemporary version of the design argument proposed by the Intelligent Design movement, and analyze its advantages and disadvantages in comparison to one of the most famous classical versions of the argument.