Research in Interactive Design ─ Virtual, Interactive and Integrated Product Design and Manufacturing for Industrial Innovation

Research in Interactive Design Vol. 3 Consists in an in-depth study of new leading methods, processes, tools and virtual techniques in product design and manufacturing. The two successful past editions have now been supplemented with this third volume, which is even more focused on the challenge of industrial innovation.

Interactive Design is an original structured product design approach that emerged in 2004 and is both an extension of and the product of advanced applications in integrated design and manufacturing, virtual engineering and prototyping, interactive simulation and virtual reality, knowledge engineering and industrial engineering.

Today, product engineers commonly handle virtual tools. But, recently, the requirement of sustainable global society have put human beings in the center of industrial projects. Interactive methods aim to supply a constructive approach that ensures innovation by improving user integration in the design process.

Fostering the development of virtual tools and providing new powerful methods of collaborative design, interactive instrumnets are the extension of traditional CAD tools. This book provides an accurate overview of recent research and industrial applications in Interactive Design.

Each subsequent part of the book addresses both advanced techniques and industrial applications of the latest successful research in Interacitive Design and manufacturing. The Solutions presented are complemented by demonstrations of real industrial problem-solving.

In this book the reader, whether a researcher or an industrialist, will find the latest Interactive Design techniques, as well as numerous essential concepts.

Xavier Fischer is engineer in mechanical engineering, professor at the Ecole superieure des technologies industrielles avancees (ESTIA), associate researcher at Lab. TREFLE (UMR CNRS 8508) and editor in chief of the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) published by Springer France.