In today's unsustainable world of goods, where products are desired, purchased, briefly
used and then promptly landfilled to make way for more, consumption and waste are rapidly …

This second edition of a bestseller presents systematic and extensive coverage of the
primary areas of research and development within VE technology. It brings together a …

Longer-lasting materials and products are often promoted as a strategy to increase
resourcefulness and sustainability across product groups including fashion. Yet these gains …

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people
in the military, with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting …

Lately, most studies on sustainable design from the perspective of emotional durability focus
on product design, particularly on exploring how do product functions direct consumers' …

In this paper, we discuss and compare two user centred methods applied in concept design:
observation and probes. The comparison is based on findings from two case studies. In …

We present the development and evaluation of the Virtual Experience Test (VET). The VET
is a survey instrument used to measure holistic virtual environment experiences based upon …

This paper describes our ongoing research about what it takes to design things that can be
ensouled or can achieve heirloom status as a matter related to sustainable design. This …

Abstract Objects often become cherished for their ties to beliefs, experiences, memories,
people, places or values that are significant to their owner. These ties can reflect the ways in …

Landfills are packed with fully functional durable goods that slowly compact and surrender
working order beneath a substantial volume of similar scrap, their downfall an inability to …