Researching Product Design and Development (pdd)

aim

The aim of pdd is to set up a group of researchers who share the interest of researching topics within the product design and development sphere. Ultimately, the purpose is to create a communicative space for MIT design researchers that allows the exchange of ideas, best practices and methodology approaches as well as simply testing one's ideas amongst peers.

origin

The core group of pdd is comprised of the 4th floor design researchers (building 3) from the labs of Maria Yang, Dan Frey, Warren Seering, Alex Slocum and David Wallace.

mailing list

Should you be interested in participating actively (e.g. lunch time presenter) or passively (listener) or just want to keep an eye on developmenets, sign into the public mailing list: pdd@mit.edu
(you may sign in and out yourself using moira: http://webmoira.mit.edu)

pdd lunch time seminars, fall term 2009

Each week, researcher will present new or ongoing research for about 30 min, followed by a discussion and some idea sharing. There are three types of presentations we are aiming for:

research kick-off (test ideas and feasibility, get input …)
midterm presentation (discuss methodology and instruments, elaborate alternative routes …)
ready to publish (critical discussion in order to refine, connect to future work …)
Of course we are not limited to digital presentations. You are more than welcome to pass by with your prototypes.

agenda, fall term 2009

When: every Thursday, 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Where: room 5-314

09/24/09
Philipp Skogstad, Martin Steinert, Karl Gummerlock, Larry Leifer
We need a universal design project outcome performance measurement metric: a discussion based on empirical research.
#file

10/01/09
Victor Tang and RuoYi Zhou
First-Principles for Services and Product-Service-Systems: An R&D Agenda.
#file

TBD

10/08/09 Barry Kudrowitz (lab: Wallace)
TBD

10/15/09 Gerald Rothenhofer (lab: Slocum ???)
TBD

10/22/09 Zac Trimble (lab: ???)
TBD

10/29/09 Pedzi Makumbe (lab: Seering)
TBD

11/05/09 ???

11/12/09 Dan Frey (lab: Frey)
TBD

11/19/09 ???
TBD

11/26/09 ???
TBD

12/03/09 Alex Keck (lab: Slocum ???)
TBD

12/10/09 Reserve: X-mas meeting

lunch: in case speaker does not invite, please bring your lunch with you. We are working on a better solution.

attachements

FOLKS. THIS IS WORK IN PROGRESS, ANY SUGGESTIONS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME