Human Behaviour in Design (Vol. 7) (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design)

The 18th International Conference on Engineering Design ICED11 was held August 15-18th 2011 at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Copenhagen. The Conference is the flagship event of the Design Society a society dedicated to contributing to a broad and established understanding of development and design. The ICED series of conferences has a long tradition which started in 1981 with the first ICED in Rome. A total of 419 papers were presented at ICED11 each double-blind reviewed by multiple reviewers. The papers included research papers and case studies on a variety of topics concerned with design thinking theory and practice with a premium placed on evidence-based research. The papers are published in a total of ten volumes of Proceedings in addition to electronic publication. This volume contains 49 papers concerned with Human Behaviour in Design: issues such as human experience cognition emotion empathy and uncertainty in the context of design.