Idea generation in biomedical engineering courses using Design Heuristics

ABSTRACT

With increasing demand for improved medical equipment and healthcare, next-generation biomedical engineers need strong design skills. Equipping biomedical engineering students with tools for idea generation and development can increase student design success. Design Heuristics are an ideation tool developed through empirical studies of product designs. While identified in the mechanical engineering space, Design Heuristics may be applicable in biomedical engineering design. In our study, we implemented a Design Heuristics session during upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate biomedical engineering design courses. We examined the applicability of Design Heuristics within individual and team concept generation contexts. The findings demonstrated that biomedical engineering students were able to use Design Heuristics to generate multiple concepts, and that initial concepts produced using Design Heuristics were carried over into final team design. The results support the applicability of Design Heuristics to student idea generation in biomedical engineering design.     

因果要素关联视域下社交媒体倦怠用户画像模型构建

[目的/意义]探究社交媒体倦怠的原因要素和结果要素标签，分析各要素间的相互作用关系，扩展用户信息行为的理论研究范畴，为企业深入了解用户社交媒体倦怠发展态势提供指导。[方法/过程]基于信息生态理论，提取"信息人、信息、信息环境和信息技术"4个信息生态因子维度的社交媒体用户画像标签；根据用户心理特征和行为表现，抽取用户画像情感和行为标签，构建社交媒体倦怠用户画像模型。[结果/结论]透过社交媒体用户消极使用和负面情感变化的典型社会现象，对用户画像模型进行整合分析与关系凝练，证明本研究社交媒体倦怠用户画像模型与S-S-O理论框架具有一致性，并根据实际进行理论上的拓展和应用。