Browsing Mechanical Engineering (Conference Papers) by Title

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    • Towards Empathic Design in the Irish Medical Device Industry 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2012-05)
      The goal of this study is twofold (a) to identify whether empathic design methods are used in the medical device industry in Ireland and (b) to identify the challenges faced by designers when implementing empathic design ...

    • Turbocharging the journey into the liminal space and beyond 

      Dempsey, Mary; Brennan, Attracta (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2017-03-06)
      In the last decade, tertiary educational environments accommodated increasing student numbers (Reidy, 2015) while remaining competitive in differentiating their programmes in an arena of MOOCs (Alraimi, Zo, & Ciganek, ...

    • Understanding ambient intelligence: Typologies for systems development 

      Cormican, Kathryn; Gill, Simrn (2006)
      This paper examines the concept of ambient intelligence (AmI). Currently research in this field is ambiguous. There are not many definitions and consequently it is difficult to understand the concept. This paper seeks to ...

    • Vertebral fractures in Ireland: A sub-analysis of the DXA HIP Project 

      Yang, Lan; Carey, John; Erjiang, E.; Wang, Tingyan; Gorham, Kelly; Egan, Rebecca; Brennan, Attracta; Dempsey, Mary; Armstrong, Catherine; Heaney, Fiona; Yu, Ming (Elsevier, 2021-04-30)
      The vertebrae are the commonest site of osteoporotic fracture osteoporosis, are associated with the highest mortality, and a huge illness burden. Some have questioned the value of screening for spine fractures, but studies ...

    • A web enabled solution for managing distributed product innovation 

      Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2000)
      New organisational forms such as strategic partnerships and networks are replacing simple market based transactions and traditional bureaucratic, hierarchical organisations. Consequently, a new conception of product design ...