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Dym, C., Agogino, A., Eris, O., Frey, D., Leifer, L., "Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning," Journal of Engineering Education, (in Press) 2004.

Eris, O., "Effective Inquiry for Innovative Engineering Design," Kluwer, Boston, 2004.

Hutterer, P., Eris, O., Jung, M., Leifer, L., Lindemann, U., Mabogunje, A., "What do designers really need? – an Explorative Experiment Before Developing Teaching Tools and Methods," proceedings of the Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004.

Mabogunje, A., ”Towards a Conceptual Framework for Predicting Engineering Design Team Performance Based on Question Asking Activity Simulation," in Human Behavior in Design, Lindemann, U. (editor), p. 154-163, Springer-Verlag, London, 2003.

Eris, O., "Manifestation of Divergent-Convergent Thinking in Question Asking and Decision Making Processes of Design Teams: A Performance Dimension," in Human Behavior in Design, Lindemann, U. (editor), p. 142-153, Springer-Verlag, London, 2003.

Eris, O., Leifer, L., "Facilitating Product Development Knowledge Acquisition: Interaction between The Expert and The Team," International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 142-152, 2003.

Larsson, A., Törlind, P., Karlsson, L., Mabogunje, A., Leifer, L., Larsson, T., Elfström, B.O., "Distributed Team Innovation – A Framework For Distributed Product Development," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003.

Eris, O., "Asking Generative Design Questions: A Fundamental Cognitive Mechanism in Design Thinking," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003.

Milne, A., Winograd, T., "The iLoft Project: A Technologically Advanced Collaborative Design Workspace as Research Instrument." Proceedings of the 13th Annual Intenational Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'03), Stockholm, Sweden, 2003.

Carrizossa, K., Eris, O., Mabogunje, A., Milne, A., Leifer, L., "Building the Design Observatory: a core instrument for design research." Proceedings of the Design 2002 Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002.

Larsson, A., Torlind, P., Mabogunje, A., Milne, A., "Distributed Design Teams: Embedded One-on-One Conversations in One-to-Many." Proceedings of the Common Ground Conference, London, UK, 2002.

Leifer, L., Culpepper, J., Ju, W., Canon, D., Eris, O., Liang, T., Bell, D., Bier, E., Pier, K., "Measuring the Performance of Online Distributed Team Innovation (Learning) Services," proceedings of the ECI Conference on e-Technologies in Engineering Education, Davos, Switzerland, 2002.

Hansen, P., Mabogunje, A., Eris, O., Leifer, L., "The Product Development Process Ontology: Creating a Learning Research Community," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Glasgow, Scotland, 2001.

Mabogunje, A., Carrizosa K., Sheppard S., Leifer, L., "Towards a Science of Engineering Design Teams," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Glasgow, Scotland, 2001.

Milne, A., "Analyzing the Activity of Multidisciplinary Design Teams in the Early Stages of Conceptual Design: Method and Measures." Proceedings of Co-Designing 2000 Conference, Coventry, U.K., 2000.

Milne, A., Leifer, L., "Information Handling and Social Interaction of Multi-Disciplinary Design Teams in Conceptual Design: A Classification Scheme Developed from Observed Activity Patterns." Proceedings of the Annual ASME Design Theory & Methodology Conference, Baltimore, USA, 2000.

Leifer, L.J., Mabogunje, A., "Scaffolding the Engineering Design Process: A Social and Data Engineering Approach," proceedings, Engineering Design Conference, Brunnel, UK, June 27-29, 2000.

Carizossa, K., Sheppard, S., "The Importance of Learning Styles in Group Design Work," proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, USA, 2000.

Eris, O., Hansen, P., Mabogunje, A., Leifer, L., "Toward a Pragmatic Ontology for Product Development Projects in Small Teams," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Munich, Germany, 1999.

Milne, A., Leifer, L., "The Ecology of Innovation in Engineering Design." Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Engineering Design, Munich, Germany, 1999.

Liang, T., Cannon, C., Feland, J., Mabogunje, A., Yen, S., Yang, M., and Leifer, L., "New Dimensions In Internet-Based Design Capture and Reuse," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Munich, Germany, 1999.

Leifer, L., and Mabogunje, A., "A Framework for Instrumenting Design Teams," in Designers - The Key to Successful Product Development, H. Birkhofer, P. Badke-Schaub, E. Frankenberger, (Editors), Springer-Verlag, London, Spring 1998.

Mabogunje, A, Leifer, L.J., "Noun Phrases as Surrogates for Measuring Early Phases of the Mechanical Design Process," proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, ASME, Sacramento, California, 1997.

Hansen, P.H.K., Larsen, J.H., Mabogunje, A., Leifer, L., "Simulating Design Coordination. The Stanford-Aalborg Empirical Studies Part (1)," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Tampere, Finland, 1997.

Cannon, D.M., Mabogunje, A., Leifer, L., "Moving the Internet into the Design Mix," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Tampere, Finland, 1997.

Mabogunje, A., Leifer, J., "Noun-Phrase Usage in Formal Design Documents Predicts Design Performance," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, Tampere, Finland, 1997.

Mabogunje, A., Leifer, L., "Instrumentation and Metrics for Collaborative Team-Design," proceedings of the 3rd International IFIP WG 5.2 Workshop on Formal Design Methods for CAD, Formal Aspects of Collaborative CAD, Sydney, Australia, 1997.

Brereton, M.F., Cannon, M.C., Mabogunje, A., Leifer, L, "Collaboration in Design Teams: How Social Interaction Shapes the Product," in Analyzing Design Activity, K. Dorst, H. Christiaans, H. Cross, (Editors). Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1996.

Mabogunje, A., Leifer, J., "210-NP: Measuring the Mechanical Engineering Design Process," proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996.

Mabogunje, A., Leifer, L.J., Levitt, R.E., and Baudin, C., "ME210-VDT: A Managerial Framework for Improving Design Process Performance," proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995.

Mabogunje, A., Baya, V., Brereton, M.F., and Leifer, L., "210-X: A Method and a Methodology for Improving Product development Performance," proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, The Hague, Netherlands, 1993.

Baya, V., Gevins, J., Baudin, C., Mabogunje, A., Toye, G., Leifer, L., "An Experimental Study of Design Information Reuse," proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, ASME, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1992.

Baudin, C., Gevins, J., Baya, V., and Mabogunje, A., "Dedal: Using domain concepts to index engineering design information," proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, Indiana, 1992.