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Michal Piasecki presented a paper “A Redefinition of the Paradox of Choice”, co-authored with Sean Hanna, at the 4th International conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC’10) in Stuttgart. The paper is a part of Michal’s ongoing PhD research on providing the users with intuitive and satisfactory B2C online mass customization expirience. The abstract is [...]
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Tags: DCC'10, Design Computing Cognition, Design Computing Cognition 2010, John Gero, Sean Hanna
Many thanks to everyone who decided to participate in the Breeding Objects Experiment 01. My initial hypothesis was that configurators with artificial selection in a GA implemented may prove to be a better tool to navigate through solution spaces with larger amount of dimensions. In other words, genetic algorithms are better tools to look for [...]
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Tags: Federico Weber, Voronoi diagram, Xylem
Breeding Objects Experiment 01
Breeding Objects Experiment 01 is my first experiment with configurators for mass customization of products over the Internet, conducted as part of PhD research at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies. The experiment is a comparison of two types of configurators: “parametric” configurators and genetic algorithms configurators. In parametric configurators users have to specify the [...]
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NURBS surface in Processing
Couple of quick impressions from a Processing sketch, which I’m currently developing. The sketch is going to become a basis of my first PhD experiment: comparison of a “parametric” interface and a “genetic algorithm” interface of a configurator for mass customization of furniture. The experiment will actually be conducted online, so more details will follow. [...]
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Tags: NURBS surface
There where three sessions on MCPC devoted entirely to configurators. Before moving on to discuss them, let’s answer a question: “what is a configurator?”. The definition provided by Configurators Database is a good answer: “Simply put, a configurator is a software application for designing products exactly matching customers’ individual needs.” B2C online product configurators are [...]
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Tags: B2C Online Product Configurators, MCPC 2009
MCPC 2009: Personalization
Michal Piasecki attended Mass Customization and Personalization conference in Helsinki (MCPC 2009), where he presented the Review of B2C Online Product Configurators. There where couple of really interesting issues raised during these intensive two days and I would like to begin with discussion of the term “personalization”. Posts on automation in architecture as well as [...]
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Tags: Bruce Kasanoff, MCPC 2009, Sunnika and Brage
Together with Sean Hanna, I have co-authored a paper: “Review of B2C Online Product Configurators”. The work was accepted for 5th World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC 2009), which is about to take place between 4th and 8th of October 2009 in Helsinki. I will discuss some of the issues mentioned in the [...]
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Tags: MCPC 2009
After finishing of the taught part of the Msc AAC I have now begun part-time work on PhD research. During the research I will be dealing with questions on how to facilitate user’s interaction with online configurators for mass customization (MC) of products through computation. First problem which I have encountered is what is referred [...]
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