Design Principles

Dissertation work in progress

▸ This is how I design: Discussing design principles in small multidisciplinary teams of design professionals
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
Design Computing and Cognition (DCC), 2020

▸ Negotiating design knowledge in interdisciplinary teams
⭑ Graduate poster winner
Nicole Damen
Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas Women in Computing conference (MINK WIC), 2019

Information in Design

Information plays a major role in guiding design behavior.
In this project, we use in-depth qualitative approaches to uncover how designers use information during the design process.

▸ From Information To Ideas: How Designers Structure Information To Support Idea Generation
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
International Design Engineering Technology Conferences (ASME IDETC), 2020

▸ Investigating Information: A Qualitative Analysis of Expert Designers' Information Representation and Structuring Behaviors (IDETC2019-98362)
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
Journal of Mechanical Design (ASME JMD), 2020

▸ Investigating Information: A Qualitative Analysis Of Expert Designers’ Information Representation And Structuring Behaviors
⭑ Best paper nominee
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
International Design Engineering Technology Conferences (ASME IDETC), 2019

▸ Towards An Information Archetypes Framework: Exploring The Types Of Information Used In Open Source Design Engagements
⭑ Best paper nominee
Sue Yi, Kevin Lumbard, Nicole Damen, Matt Germonprez and Christine Toh
International Design Engineering Technology Conferences (ASME IDETC), 2019

▸ Looking for Inspiration: Understanding the Information Evaluation and Seeking Behavior of Novice Designers During Creative Idea Generation
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
International Conference on Engineering Design (DS ICED), 2019

Home Automation

Connecting man and machine at home.
This master thesis project combines an experimental set-up with semi-structured interviews to understand how design decisions influence user trust.

▸ Designing for Trust: Understanding the Role of Agent Gender and Location on User Perceptions of Trust in Home Automation
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
Journal of Mechanical Design (ASME JMD), 2019

▸ Implicit And Explicit Trust Behavior: Does Stereotype Congruence Affect User Trust In A Home Automation Device?
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
International Design Engineering Technology Conferences (ASME IDETC), 2018

▸ Designing for Trust: Understanding the Role of Agent Gender and Location on User Perceptions of Trust in Home Automation
Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
International Design Engineering Technology Conferences (ASME IDETC), 2017

Other collaborations

▸ GPkit: a Human-Centered Approach to Convex Optimization in Engineering Design
Edward Burnell, Nicole Damen, Warren Hoburg
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI), 2020

▸ Broadening Participation: Over Ten Years Of Outreach Within The IDETC-DED Community
Charlotte de Vries, Kate Fu, Elizabeth Starkey, Christine Toh, Nicole Damen , Shraddha Joshi, Brian Sylcott, and Kathryn Jacobson
International Design Engineering Technology Conferences (ASME IDETC), 2020

▸ Back And Forth: Using Conversation Analysis To Explore Dialogues Of Sharedness Of Mental Models
Sue Yi, Nicole Damen and Christine Toh
International Design Engineering Technology Conferences (ASME IDETC), 2020

▸ Open Community Health: Workshop Report
Georg Link, Kevin Lumbard, Nicole Damen, Holly Rosser, Matt Germonprez, Sean Goggins, Andrea Wiggins, Vinod Ahuja, Jonathan Brier, Johanna Cohoon, Aaron Halfaker, James Howison, Don Marti, Greg Newman, Carsten Østerlund, Ray Paik, Becky Rother, and Aaron Schecter.
Journal of Peer Production, 2018.