Perceived quality is one of the most critical aspects of product development that defines the
successful design. This paper presents a new approach to perceived quality assessment by …

Product forms in quantitative design methods are typically expressed with a mathematical
representation such as vectors, trees, graphs, and grammars. Such formal representations …

There is a growing interest in product aesthetics analytics and design. However, the lack of
available large-scale data that covers various variables and information is one of the biggest …

Aiming to assist the design and management personnel of automotive products to make
correct judgments and give optimization solutions for the design of exterior styling, and to …

To avoid the requirement of expert knowledge in conventional methods for car styling
analysis, this article proposes a machine learning–based method which requires no expert …

Der digitale Wandel stellt neben der Globalisierung heutzutage eine große Herausforderung
für Unternehmen dar. Die Ingenieure sind in diesem Wandel mit neuen Anforderungen an …

Exterior facelift has become an effective method for automakers to boost the consumers'
interest in an existing car model before it is redesigned. To support the automotive facelift …

The need to communicate, as an important human need, can be secured through attending
public spaces such as the cultural environment, especially in developing countries where …

In today's competitive market it is critical to understand how product design connects with the
consumer emotionally. Therefore, design engineers must adopt a design for emotion (DFe) …

Abstract Within the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 73 (SFB/TR 73) a self-
learning engineering workbench (SLASSY) is being developed. SLASSY assists product …