NordDesign 2026
August 11-14, 2026 | Tampere, Finland
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 5:30pm |
Registration and Info Desk Location: Main Entrance Lobby, City Centre Campus |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
T1 - Plenary Session 2: Towards Exceptional Competetiveness | CEO Veli-Matti Hakala, Cimcorp Oy Location: Main Auditorium, A210, City Center Campus Chair: Prof. Tero Juuti, Tampere University, Finland |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Coffee Break Location: Main Auditorium Foyer, City Centre Campus |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
T2A: Design Methods and Tools, 4 Location: A3 Auditorium (A207) City Centre Campus Chair: Dr. Timo Lehtonen, Tampere University, Finland TRANSLATING CONTEXT-EMBEDDED EXPERIENTIAL INSIGHTS INTO DESIGN REQUIREMENTS IN EARLY-STAGE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 1: Stanford University, United States of America; 2: Santa Clara University, United States of America 10:50am - 11:10am A TRIZ-BASED METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO IDENTIFYING PRODUCTS SUITABLE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING 1: University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany; 2: TRIZ Consulting Group GmbH 11:10am - 11:30am A V-MODEL APPROACH FOR THE DESIGN OF CONDITION MONITORING MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS USING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MEASURANDS Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Drive Technology, Beethovenstraße 1, 73430 Aalen, Germany 11:30am - 11:50am BEYOND REGULATION: CONTEXTUAL FACTORS SHAPING AGILE ADOPTION IN DEFENCE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT University of the Bundeswehr Munich |
T2B: Design Theory and Research Methods Location: A4 Auditorium (A206) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Tero Juuti, Tampere University, Finland CAN PRODUCT AFFORDANCES BE STUDIED THROUGH REACTION TIMES? Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 10:50am - 11:10am FROM SCRIPT-NEUTRAL NORMS TO CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE GRIDS: TRANSLATING CHINESE CULTURAL-JIEGE ELEMENTS INTO PARAMETERISED UI LAYOUT RULES 1: Pingxiang University; 2: University of Gloucerstershire 11:10am - 11:30am TYPOLOGY OPTIMISATION: COMBINATORIAL SEARCH ALGORITHMS IN CONCEPTUAL DESIGN Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 11:30am - 11:50am LIFE GOES ON: DESIGNING THE DIGITAL PERIPHERY OF IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES University of Wuppertal, Germany |
T2C: Design, values, and paradigms Location: A1 Auditorium (A209) City Centre Campus Chair: Dr. Frederike Kossack, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany BEYOND THE "CO" IN COBOT: ETHICAL AND EMBODIED CHALLENGES TO COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS UCL - Erhvervsakademi og Professionshøjskole, Denmark 10:50am - 11:10am CROSS-GENERATIONAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS FOR POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS OF TECHNICAL INHERITANCE AND SYSTEM GENERATION ENGINEERING 1: Institute for Product Development, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 2: Institute of Product Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 11:10am - 11:30am FROM HAZARD PREVENTION TO VALUE-BASED DESIGN: HOW PERCEIVED INSTABILITY SHAPES DOMESTIC SAFETY BEHAVIOUR 1: Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile; 2: Universidad de los Andes; 3: Universidad de Valparaíso; 4: Universidad de Concepción 11:30am - 11:50am DESIGN FOR DRONE DETECTION: A MULTI-MODAL, COST-EFFECTIVE DRONE DETECTION SYSTEM Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 11:50am - 12:10pm CONFIGURATION OF SENSOR NETWORKS FOR TECHNICAL INHERITANCE – A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON APPROACHES FOR OPTIMAL SENSOR AND SENSOR NODE PLACEMENT FOR STRAIN-BASED DEFORMATION FIELD RECONSTRUCTION Institute for Product Development, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: YO restaurant, Juvenes City Centre Campus |
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| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
T3A: Design Methods and Tools, 5 Location: A3 Auditorium (A207) City Centre Campus Chair: Dr. Timo Lehtonen, Tampere University, Finland HYBRID ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF COPPER-METAL-COMPONENTS – TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS AND FURTHER DIRECTIONS Institute for Product Development and Machine Elements, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany 1:20pm - 1:40pm MODULAR DESIGN FOR ADAPTIVE SPORTS EQUIPMENT: A ROWING ERGOMETER CASE STUDY Nowegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 1:40pm - 2:00pm PROTOTYPE-DRIVEN EXPLORATION OF DYNAMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR A TENG TEST MACHINE Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 2:00pm - 2:20pm USING ITERATION TO SUPPORT DESIGN REASONING IN INDIVIDUALISED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany |
T3B: Systems Engineering and Design Location: A4 Auditorium (A206) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Ola Isaksson, Chalmers university of technology, Sweden A LITERATURE-BASED INTERACTION PATTERN CATALOGUE FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ASSISTANTS 1: Heinz Nixdorf Institute; 2: Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design 1:20pm - 1:40pm IMPLEMENTING A MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART PSS ON AN AUTONOMOUS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM University of Stuttgart, Germany 1:40pm - 2:00pm DESIGNING INTEGRATED RURAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS: STRUCTURE SHARING BASED APPROACH Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bengaluru 2:00pm - 2:20pm A FRAMEWORK FOR VALIDATING AGILE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COMPETENCIES: ENGINEERING THE LIVE-LAB LAT AS A SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEM ISEM - Institute for Smart Engineering and Machine Elements, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, Germany |
T3C: Design Education, 1 Location: A1 Auditorium (A209) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Tanja Schmitt-Fumian, TUM - Technical University of Munich, Germany POTENTIAL OF CROSS-UNIVERSITY DEVELOPED LEARNING MATERIALS IN ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION 1: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; 2: TU Dortmund University; 3: University of Wuppertal 1:20pm - 1:40pm ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DESIGN COMPREHENSION AND ITS IMPROVEMENT USING VIRTUAL REALITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION Engineering Design and Product Development, TU Dortmund University, Germany 1:40pm - 2:00pm ARCHITECTING A WEB PLATFORM FOR COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTATION IN DIGITAL FABRICATION DESIGN EDUCATION 1: Centre for Applied Computing, University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan 2:00pm - 2:20pm AI-BASED OBJECT DETECTION IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: RESULTS OF A LITERATURE REVIEW AND FIELD STUDY TU Dortmund University, Germany |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: Main Auditorium Foyer, City Centre Campus |
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| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
T4A: Design Methods and Tools, 6 Location: A3 Auditorium (A207) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Alexander Koch, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany FROM AWARENESS TO REINFORCEMENT: SUPPORTING CULTURAL CHANGE IN RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT FOR ENGINEERING 1: Paderborn University, Germany; 2: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 3: Leiniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library, Germany 3:20pm - 3:40pm ADDRESSING UNCERTAINTY IN EARLY-PHASE REQUIREMENT ELICITATION: A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND COGNITIVE DYNAMICS IN PRODUCT INNOVATIONS Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany 3:40pm - 4:00pm MEASURING THE SUCCESS OF AGILE TRANSFORMATIONS WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: A PROCEDURAL MODEL Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 4:00pm - 4:20pm A VISION AND REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS FOR DIGITAL TOOL SUPPORT OF THE EXTENDED C&C²-APPROACH IN SYSTEM GENERATION ENGINEERING Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany |
T4B: Design Management Location: A4 Auditorium (A206) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Tero Juuti, Tampere University, Finland SNAPSHOTTING THE PARADIGM SHIFT: EMERGING PRACTICES AT THE INTERSECTION OF GENERATIVE AI AND CONTEMPORARY UX DESIGN 1: University of Aveiro, Portugal; 2: University of Waikato, New Zealand 3:20pm - 3:40pm COLLABORATION WITHIN GEOMETRICAL PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS (GPS): AN ISO/TS 21619-BASED GAP ANALYSIS University of Wuppertal, Germany 3:40pm - 4:00pm ENHANCING INTEGRATIVE PRODUCT AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT: 42 IMPROVEMENT MEASURES 1: Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design IEM, Zukunftsmeile 1, 33102 Paderborn, Germany; 2: Paderborn University - Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Fürstenallee 1, 33102 Paderborn, Germany 4:00pm - 4:20pm DESIGN IN CONTEXT: CONSISTENT CROSS-DOMAIN VARIANT MODELING FOR COMPLEX PRODUCT PORTFOLIOS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY 1: University of Stuttgart,Institute for Engineering Design and Industrial Design, Stuttgart, Germany; 2: Helmut Schmidt University, Chair for Machine Elements and Computer Aided Product Design, Hamburg, Germany; 3: Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany; 4: Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, Institute for Information Management in Engineering, Karlsruhe, Germany; 5: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Weissach, Germany; 6: Institute for Engineering Design, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany |
T4C: Design Education, 2 Location: A1 Auditorium (A209) City Centre Campus Chair: Dr. Frederike Kossack, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany A PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN AI-DRIVEN ENGINEERING DESIGN Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 3:20pm - 3:40pm DESIGNING RELATIONAL UI/UX FOR HUMAN–AI COEXISTENCE: A CASE STUDY OF AI-SUPPORTED FUTURES PROTOTYPING Kyushu University, Japan 3:40pm - 4:00pm HUMAN–AI COLLABORATION IN DESIGN EDUCATION: EXPLORING AI FEEDBACK AS SHARED SUPPORT FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 1: TUM - Technical University of Munich, Germany,; 2: srh Mobile University, Germany 4:00pm - 4:20pm GENERATIVE AI ACROSS THE DOUBLE DIAMOND: ADOPTION PATTERNS AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 1: Hongik University, Republic of Korea; 2: Virginia Tech, United States |
| 5:30pm - 11:30pm |
Conference Dinner Location: Mobilia Automobile and Road Museum |
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