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Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Corney, J., Canavan, M., Quigley, J., & Sherlock, A. (2022). Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements. In Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXV (187-192). https://doi.org/

Training novice production engineers to design manufacturing fixtures is a time-consuming process involving significant input from experienced experts. Motivated by the vision of providing an intelligent support system for general mechanical design,... Read More about Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements.

Assessment of Predictive Probability Models for Effective Mechanical Design Feature Reuse (2022)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Quigley, J., Corney, J., Sherlock, A., & Randika, G. (2022). Assessment of Predictive Probability Models for Effective Mechanical Design Feature Reuse. Artificial intelligence for engineering design, analysis and manufacturing :

This research envisages an automated system to inform engineers when opportunities occur to use existing features or configurations during the development of new products. Such a system could be termed a `predictive CAD system' because it would be a... Read More about Assessment of Predictive Probability Models for Effective Mechanical Design Feature Reuse.

Design as a Marked Point Process (2021)
Journal Article
Quigley, J., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Purves, D., & Sherlock, A. (2022). Design as a Marked Point Process. Journal of Mechanical Design, 144(2), Article 021713. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052844

Although AI systems which support composition using predictive text are well established there are no analogous technologies for mechanical design. Motivated by the vision of a predictive system that interactively suggests features to designer, this... Read More about Design as a Marked Point Process.

Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases (2021)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Quigley, J., Corney, J., Sherlock, A., & Randika, G. (2021). Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases. Advanced engineering informatics, 48, Article 101261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.

It has been widely reported that the reuse of previously created components, or features, in new engineering designs will improve the efficiency of a company’s product development process. Although the reuse of engineering components has established... Read More about Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs (2020)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Stuart, S., Sherlock, A., Quigley, J., & Purves, D. (2020). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs. Journal of Mechanical Design, 142(10), Article 101401. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046435

Many companies offer a range of related products that are constructed using similar components and processes. This enables them to meet customer expectations of product variety while minimising the overheads (e.g. development and manufacturing costs)... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Sherlock, A., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2018). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index. In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

The benefits of being able to create a number of product variations from a limited range of components, or sub-assemblies, are widely recognized. Indeed it is clear that companies who can effectively reuse elements of existing designs when creating n... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index.

A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclachlan, R., Wodehouse, A., & Vasantha, G. (2018). A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects. In Design Education: Diversity or Conformity? Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design E

This paper presents a new philosophy for patent use in student design projects; patents are more valuable when viewed as creative and learning resources rather than as a list of prior art to be considered for infringement. A practical approach to pat... Read More about A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects.

Realising the affective potential of patents: a new model of database interpretation for user-centred design (2018)
Journal Article
Wodehouse, A., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Jagadeesan, A., & MacLachlan, R. (2018). Realising the affective potential of patents: a new model of database interpretation for user-centred design. Journal of Engineering Design, 29(8-9), 484-511. https://doi.or

This research sets out a new interpretation of the patent database using affective design parameters. While this resource contains a vast quantity of technical information, its extraction and use in practical design settings is extremely challenging.... Read More about Realising the affective potential of patents: a new model of database interpretation for user-centred design.

The generation of problem-focussed patent clusters: a comparative analysis of crowd intelligence with algorithmic and expert approaches (2017)
Journal Article
Wodehouse, A., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2017). The generation of problem-focussed patent clusters: a comparative analysis of crowd intelligence with algorithmic and expert approaches. Design Science: An International Jou

This paper presents a new crowdsourcing approach to the construction of patent clusters, and systematically benchmarks it against previous expert and algorithmic approaches. Patent databases should be rich sources of inspiration which could lead engi... Read More about The generation of problem-focussed patent clusters: a comparative analysis of crowd intelligence with algorithmic and expert approaches.

Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., Corney, J., & Wodehouse, A. (2017, January). Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design. Presented at International Conference on Research into Design

Interactions (i.e. modes of operations through which product development knowledge is generated and externalized in the design process) play a vital role in knowledge processes of product development. Intentional or unintentional changes in interacti... Read More about Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design.

The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Wodehouse, A. (2016, June). The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design. Presented at 7th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Evanston (Chicago), United States

This paper explores the role of patents in engineering design, and how the extraction and presentation of patent data could be improved for designers. We propose the use of crowdsourcing as a means to post tasks online for a crowd of people to partic... Read More about The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design.

Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Wodehouse, A., Corney, J., MacLachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2016, June). Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation. Presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Glasgow, UK

Innovation is critical to sustain in prevailing competitive business environments. Industries need effective innovation strategies in-practice to develop and deliver novel products and services swiftly. In order to implement innovation strategies eff... Read More about Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation.

Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Wodehouse, A., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2016, June). Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation. Paper presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Develo

Innovation is critical to sustain in prevailing competitive business environments. Industries need effective innovation strategies in-practice to develop and deliver novel products and services swiftly. In order to implement innovation strategies eff... Read More about Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation.

A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model (2016)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2016). A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model. Knowledge and Process Management, 23(2), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1501

Product knowledge emerges from day‐to‐day, ubiquitous interactions executed by engineers. Types of interaction and their associated influence on knowledge activities are often not perceptible, and therefore not captured in current industrial practice... Read More about A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model.

Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. V. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2015). Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design. In DS 79: Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Design Creativit

Although a digital design tool like CAD has a strong influence on creative design, it is merely used in the detail design stage to present the visualized final product in 3D space. Limitations in CAD have led to the great emphasis on employing suppor... Read More about Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design.

Advances in designing product-service systems (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Roy, R., & Corney, J. R. (2015). Advances in designing product-service systems. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 95, 429-448

Product-Service Systems (PSS) have emerged as a class of hybrid business models that have evolved particular relevance to enterprises operating in a resource-efficient, circular economy (environments that places an emphasis on sustainable, collaborat... Read More about Advances in designing product-service systems.

A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agrawal, A., Yadav, P., Upadhyay, C. K., Corney, J. R., Vasantha, G. A., Jagadeesan, A., & Lynn, A. (2015). A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing. In Technological Innovation in ICT for Agriculture and Rural D

Packing problems on its current state are being utilized for wide area of industrial applications. The aim of present research is to create and implement an intelligent system that tackles the problem of 2D packing of objects inside a 2D container, s... Read More about A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V., Jagadeesan, A. P., Corney, J. R., Lynn, A., & Agrawal, A. (2016). Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers. International Journal of Production Research, 54(14), 4104-4125. https://doi.org/10.10

Many industrial processes require the nesting of 2D profiles prior to the cutting, or stamping, of components from raw sheet material. Despite decades of sustained academic effort algorithmic solutions are still sub-optimal and produce results that c... Read More about Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers.

The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction (2015)
Journal Article
Bamoallem, B. S., Wodehouse, A. J., Mair, G. M., & Vasantha, G. A. (2016). The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 55(A), 424-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.016

Communication takes place not only through speech, but also through gestures such as facial expressions, gaze, head movements, hand movements and body posture. Although developing rapidly, current communication platforms do not facilitate the types o... Read More about The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction.