Has the Development of Rapid Prototyping Influenced the Creative Processes in Product Design Education?

Autor/in	Page, Tom
Titel	Has the Development of Rapid Prototyping Influenced the Creative Processes in Product Design Education?
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Technology, 15 (2018) 3, S.40-51 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0973-0559
Schlagwörter	Questionnaires; Undergraduate Students; Visual Aids; Computer Assisted Design; Creativity; Models; Printing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fragebogen; Anschauungsmaterial; Kreativität; Analogiemodell; Buchdruck; Drucken
Abstract	This paper examines the development of rapid prototyping and how it affects industrial design students. Using a combination of survey and interview sessions the researcher studied how the development of these technologies affected the creative processes that designers use to develop new products, and whether this has had a positive or negative effect. The results show that the reduction in cost, increase in speed, and increase in dimensional accuracy has influenced many students to look to rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing to produce prototypes, despite production costs still being relatively high. This has led to designers prioritising certain areas of the design process over others, yet to what extent and to what consequences remains to be seen. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01