Design Resarch Lab -- JAIST

Dr. Georgi V. Georgiev †

Currently (April 2010-March 2011) post-doctoral researcher at Innovation program (Career center, JAIST) and Design Research Lab (School of Knowledge Science, JAIST)

Innovation program post-doc research topic (after April 2010): An investigation of tactile interaction focused on human emotions for new design materials

Post-doc research topic (2009-2010): Tactile impressions of materials for product design

Ph.D. Research topic (2006-2009): An Approach to Design Focusing on the Structuring Process of Meaning.

Received M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria in 1999. Received Ph.D. degree in 2009 from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Research interests are in the areas of:

Design creativity

Process of creative thinking in design

Support of creative design process

Tactile interaction

Human impressions and emotions

Knowledge creation

Visual communication design

Design theories

Member of The Design Society, JSSD and Design Creativity-SIG.

Journal Articles †

Nagai, Y., Georgiev, G.V., Zhou, F., (2010) A methodology to analyze in-depth impressions of design on the basis of concept networks, J. Design Research, Vol. 8, No. 4, 21p. (Corrected Proof)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=192&action=coming

Nagai, Y., Georgiev, G.V., (2011) The Role of Impressions on Users’ Tactile Interaction with Product Materials: An Analysis of Associative Concept Networks, Materials and Design Vol. 32, pp.291–302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2010.05.040

Georgiev, G.V., Nagai, Y. and Taura, T. (2010) ‘A method for the evaluation of meaning structures and its application in conceptual design’, J. Design Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp.214–234. Special Issue “Current Concerns of Industrial Design Engineering Research”.
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=192&year=2010&vol=8&issue=3

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai and T. Taura: “A Conceptual Network Approach to Structuring of Meanings in Design,” The Bulletin of Japan Society of the Science of Design (JSSD), Vol. 56, No. 5, Issue No. 197, 2010, pp. 1-10.

Original Articles (Peer-reviewed International Conferences) †

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, and T. Taura: “A Study on the Convergence of Meaning and Creativity of the Generated Concepts in Design”, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), Kobe, Japan, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2010, (Accepted paper).

I. Gwilt, G.V. Georgiev, and Y. Nagai: “Fabrications of Natural and Artificial: A Case Study of Enhancing Users’ Impressions”, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), Kobe, Japan, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2010, (Accepted paper).

Y. Nagai, G.V. Georgiev, and T. Taura: “Users’ Tactile Interactions with New Product Materials: An Analysis of Depth Impressions based on Associative Concept Networks,” ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2010, August 15-18, Montréal, Canada, Paper ID: DETC2010-28613.
http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC2010/

G.V. Georgiev, T. Taura, A. Chakrabarti and Y. Nagai: “Method of Design Through Structuring of Meanings,” ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2008, New York City, NY, USA, CD-ROM 10 pages, Paper ID: DETC2008-49500 (August 3-6, 2008).
http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC08/index.cfm

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai and T. Taura: “Method of Design Evaluation Focused on Relations of Meanings for a Successful Design,” Proceedings of the Tenth International Design Conference Design 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp 1149-1158 (May 19-22, 2008).
http://www.designconference.org/

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, T. Taura, and J. Morita: “Meaning Structure Modeling on the Design Conceptual Level,” Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Tools and methods of Competitive Engineering TMCE 2008, Izmir, Turkey, pp 329-340 (April 20-25, 2008).
http://www.tmce.org/

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, T. Taura, and J. Morita: “Meaning Structure Modeling: A Methodology for Creative Design,” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems IJCKS 2007 (KSS2007/KICSS2007), Ishikawa, Japan, pp 86-91 (November 5-7, 2007).
http://css.jaist.ac.jp/ijcks2007/index.php?id=60

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, T. Taura, and J. Morita: “Coordinating Meanings of Logotypes for Support of the Design Process,” ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education, University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, CD-ROM 4 pages, (9-12 July 2007).
http://connected2007.com.au/program.php

Workshops †

I. Gwilt, Y. Nagai, and G.V. Georgiev: “The Natural Fabrications Project: A case study of creative practice”, The Fifth International Conference on Multimodality (5ICOM), Sydney, Australia, 1-3 December 2010, (Accepted presentation)

F. Zhou, G.V. Georgiev, and Y. Nagai: “Design Thinking based on Understanding Users’ Imagination”, Workshop Research Methods for Design Cognition (11 July 2010) on Fourth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC10), 12–14 July 2010, Stuttgart, Germany.

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, and T. Taura: “A structuring approach to the conceptual design process: An experimental study on the convergence of meaning”, 3rd Design Creativity Workshop (11 July 2010) on Fourth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC10), 12–14 July 2010, Stuttgart, Germany.

Towards the evaluation of meaning structures and its application in conceptual design, Georgiev G. V., Nagai Y., Taura T., 2009 ACM Creativity & Cognition conference, Workshop Creativity and Cognition in Engineering Design, 2009/10/28, Berkeley, USA
http://www.ccedworkshop.org/

Creative Method for Structuring the Meanings in Design, Georgiev G. V., Nagai Y., Taura T., 2nd Design Creativity Workshop DCW08, 22 June 2008, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.

Domestic conferences †

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, and I. Gwilt: “The creative practice based research: A case study of Natural Fabrications project”, Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference of JSSD 2010, Ueda, Japan, pp 142-143, (July 2-4, 2010).

Y. Nagai, and G.V. Georgiev: “Tactile interactions with materials inspiring the design thinking”, Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference of JSSD 2010, Ueda, Japan, pp 138-139, (July 2-4, 2010).

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, and T. Taura: “Tactile interactions with materials: An analysis of depth impressions based on concept networks of associations,” JSSD Workshop, Fukui, Japan, 2010/03/21

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai and T. Taura: “Design Method based on the Network Structure of Meanings,” Proceedings of DSDCONF 2008, 18th conference of The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Kyoto University, CD-ROM 6 pages, Paper ID: 3309 (September 25-27, 2008).

Y. Nagai and G.V. Georgiev: “Research of Design Method Focusing on the Meaning Structuring Process,” Proceedings of the 55th Annual Conference of JSSD 2008, Hiroshima, Japan, pp 62-63, (June 27-29, 2008). Good presentation award of the conference

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, T. Taura, and J. Morita: “Method of Graphic Design by Coordination of Meanings Values and Relations of Meanings of Symbols,” Proceedings of the 54th Annual Conference of JSSD 2007, pp 6-7 (June 2007).

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai and T. Taura: “Method of Creative Graphic Design Focusing on Multiple Meanings: A systematic approach to meanings of symbols,” Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Conference of JSSD 2006, Ishikawa, Japan, pp 16-17 (30.06-02.07.2006).

Contact †

georgiev (at)/

jaist.ac.jp