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Journal Papers
Birkett S, Lloyd P & Garner S (2011) Education to practice: the development of responsibility in product designers, Int. Journal of Design Research, Vol.9, No.2, pp131-145.
Prats M, Lim S, Jowers I, Garner S & Chase S (2009) Transforming shape in design: Observations from studies of sketching. Design Studies, Vol 30, No5, September, pp503-520.
Lim S, Prats M, Jowers I, Chase S, Garner S & McKay A. (2008) Shape Exploration in Design: Formalising and Supporting a Transformational Process. International Journal of Architectural Computing, Vol 6, No 4, pp415-433.
Schadewitz N, Garner S & Ferreira G. (2008) Utilizing Flashmeeting software in collaborative design learning, HCI for Technology Enhanced Learning, a workshop in HCI 2008: Culture, Creativity and Interaction, Liverpool, 1-5 Sept.
Prats M, Earl C, Garner S & Jowers I (2006) Shape exploration of designs in a style: toward generation of product designs, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacture (AIEDAM), Special issue on Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style, 20(3) pp 201–215.
Prats M & Garner S (2006) Observations on Ambiguity in Design Sketches, Tracey, an internet-based drawing research journal, Loughborough University, September 2006.
Garner S (2005) ‘Revealing design complexity: Lessons from the Open University’, CoDesign, International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, 1(4) December, Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1571-0882, pp267-276.
Garner S & Mann P (2003) ‘Interdisciplinarity: Perceptions of the value of computer supported collaborative work in design for the built environment’, International Journal of Automation in Construction, 12(5), pp 495-499, ISSN 0926-5805.
Johnson J, Hirst A, & Garner S (2003) ‘Learning from designing the RoboFesta-Blue Peter robots’, Artificial Life and Robotics, pp22-27.
Garner S (2002) ‘Briefing illustrators: Revisiting the value of sketch images’. International. Journal of Art and Design Education (IJADE), 21(3), pp234-255, ISSN 0260-9991.
Garner S (2001) ‘Comparing graphic actions between remote and proximal design teams’, Design Studies, 22(4), pp365-376, ISSN 0142-694X.
Garner S & McDonagh-Philp D (2001) ‘Problem interpretation and resolution via visual stimuli: The use of mood boards in design education’, in International Journal of Art and Design Education (IJADE), 20(1), pp57-64, ISSN 0260-9991.
Garner S (1998) ‘The use of graphic act analysis for research into computer supported design teamworking’, Point (ed. Buss D), No 6, Autumn/Winter, pp27-33, CHEAD publication, ISSN 1360-3477.
Garner S (1997) ‘Get the Idea? Strategies for creativity in Design and Technology projects’, in New Designer, 2(2) (January), p6-7, Philip Allan, ISSN 1358 6882.
Garner S, Torrens G & Schappo A (1996) ‘Computer Supported Video Signing’, in Ability, Issue 18, BCS Disability Group, ISSN 1352 7665.
Garner S (1996) ‘Working with Clients - the Vital Issues’, in New Designer, 1(2) (January), Philip Allan, ISSN1358 6882.
Scrivener S, Clarke A, Connolly J, Garner S, Palmen H, (1993) ‘Real-time Communication between Dispersed Work Groups via Speech and Drawing’, in Wirtschaftsinformatic, (ed.Scrivener S), 35(2), pp149-156, Verlag Vieweg.
Garner S (1992) ‘The Need for Human Factors in Design and Technology’, Design and Technology Teaching, 24(2), pp14-17, ISSN 0958 3017.
Norman E, Garner S, Johnston M & Wride C (1990) ‘Attainment Targets in Design and Technology - A Video Product’ in Design and Technology Teaching, 23(2), pp88-94, ISSN 0958 3017.
Garner S (1990) ‘Drawing and Designing: The Case for Reappraisal’, in Journal of Art and Design Education (JADE), 9(1), pp39-54, ISSN 0260 9991.
Garner S (1988) ‘Drawing for Design - A Case of Limited Resources’, in Destech, Series Two, Autumn, pp4-8.
Garner S (1988) ‘The Interface between Design and Ergonomics’, in Ergonomia, (Hungary), 21(3), pp167-169.
Garner S (1988) ‘The Language of Design : Drawing on a Profound Resource’, Studies in Design Education, Craft and Technology, 20(3) pp133-6, ISSN 0305-766.
Garner S (1988) ‘Styling and Common Sense? The Relationship between Ergonomics and Design’, in The Ergonomist, No 211, Dec.
Denton H, Garner S & Atkinson E (1988) ‘Core Design - A Contemporary Foundation Course’, in Studies in Design Education, Craft and Technology, 20(3), pp149-153, ISSN 0305-766.
Books
Garner S (1991) Design Topics - Human Factors of Design, Oxford University Press, UK, pp64, ISBN 019 832783 8.
Edited Collections
Garner S (2008) Writing on Drawing: Essays on drawing practice and research, Edited collection of original papers, Intellect Books & NSEAD, Oct., pp188, ISBN 978-1-84150-200-7
Garner S & Tormey J (1998) 'Drawing Papers' A collection of edited papers from a drawing forum held on 26.9.97, Loughborough University and Loughborough College of Art and Design, pp22, ISBN 1-900856-11-5.
Book Sections
McKay A, Chase S, Garner S, Jowers I, Prats M, Hogg DC, Chau, HH, de Pennington A, Earl CF and Lim S. (2009) 'Design synthesis and shape generation', in Inns, T. (Ed.): Designing for the 21st Century-Volume 2: Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ISBN 1409402401, 978, pp304-321.
Mann P & Garner S (2006) The Role of Sketches in Supporting Near-Synchronous Remote Communication in computer supported collaborative design, in Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Eds., Shen, W; Chao, K-M; Lin, Z; Barthes, J-P; James, A. Selected papers from 9th International conference, CSCWD 2005, Coventry, Springer Verlag. ISBN 3-540-32969-2, pp72-81.
Connolly J, Clarke A, Garner S & Palmén H (1997) ‘A functionally oriented analysis of spoken dialogue between individuals linked by a computer network’, in Vismans R, Butler C and Gatward R (eds.), Discourse and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp33-58. ISBN 3 11 015153 7.
Clarke A, Connolly J, Garner S & Palmen H (1996) ‘A language of cooperation?’ in Connolly J and Pemberton L (eds) Linguistic Concepts and Methods in CSCW, London: Springer-Verlag, pp61-77 ISBN 3 540 19984 5.
Garner S & Evans M (1996) ‘Communication in Design’, in Williams P & Williams A (eds), Technology Education for Teachers, Macmillan Education Australia, pp111-135, ISBN 0 7329 4090 7.
Scrivener S, Clarke A, Connolly J, Garner S, Palmen H, (1993) ‘Real-time Communication between Dispersed Work Groups via Speech and Drawing’, in Scrivener S (ed), Computer Supported Co-operative Work, Ch.6, Avebury Technical, Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Garner S (1992) ‘The Importance of Graphic Modelling in Design Activity’, in McCormick R (ed), Murphy P, and Harrison M, Teaching and Learning Technology, Addison-Wesley (USA), pp188-193, ISBN 0 201 63169 5.
[Reprinted in Banks F (ed), Teaching Technology, Routledge, London, pp68-73, ISBN 0 415 10254 5, 1994].
Garner S (1992) ‘The Undervalued Role of Drawing in Design’, in Thistlewood D (ed), Drawing Research and Development, pp98-109, Longmans, ISBN 0 582 07419 3. [Reprinted from the Journal of Art and Design Education, 9(1), 1988].
Conference Papers
Jowers I, Prats M, McKay A & Garner S (2011) Design exploration with useless rules and eye tracking, International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED), 15-18 August, Copenhagen, Denmark (accepted).
Jowers I, Prats M, Pedreira N, McKay A & Garner S (2011) Supporting shape reinterpretation with eye tracking, Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia (CAADRIA), 27-30 April, Newcastle, Australia.
Hart J, Zamenopoulos T & Garner S (2010) The Learningscape of a Virtual Design Atelier, in Proc of the 8th eLearning@Greenwich conference, University of Greenwich, UK, July 2010.
Schadewitz N, Garner S and Hart J (2010) 'Design learning futures: Principles and practices of design studio education in the 21st century', Proc. 6th Swiss Design Network conference Negotiating futures - Design fiction, Basle, 29-30 October.
Prats M, Jowers I, Pedreira N, Garner S, & McKay A (2010) Interpretation of Geometric Shapes – An Eye Movement Study, Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 10), 22-24 March, Austin, Texas, USA.
Prats M and Garner S (2009) Making meaning: developing an understanding of form in distance design education, Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM '09), 26-27 October, Taipei, Taiwan.
Birkett S, Lloyd P & Garner S (2009) 'The Development of Responsibility in Product Designers', in Proc., International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR09) conference, COEX Centre, October, Seoul, South Korea.
Jowers I, Prats M, Lim S, McKay A, Garner S, & Chase S. (2008) Supporting Reinterpretation in Computer-Aided Conceptual Design. 5th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, (Eds) Alvarado C and Cani M-P., 11-13 June 2008, Annecy, France.
Birkett S, Garner S & Lloyd P (2008) ‘Graduating product designers and their attitudes to design responsibility: A survey', in Proc., Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 08), 4-5 September 2008, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Lim S, Prats M, Chase S & Garner S (2008) Sketching in design: Formalising a transformational process, in Proc., CAADRiA 08, 9-12 April 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Lim S, Prats M, Chase S & Garner S (2008), Categorisation of designs according to preference values for shape rules, Third International conference on Design, Computing and Cognition (DCC08), 23–25 June, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
Garner S (2007) ‘Towards a blended model of product design education', in Proc. of Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa, 3-5 October, 2007.
Paterson G, Garner S & Earl C (2007) 'Multimodality through physical digital design', in Proc. of Conference of International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR07), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 12-15 Nov 2007
Paterson G & Garner S (2006) 'On making: issues of 3D representations in design education' in: Clarke A, Kolar M, Rothbucher B (eds) Educating Designers for a Global Context? Salzburg 7-8th Sept 2006, Basildon, ISBN 0-9553942-0-1, pp: 273-278.
Paterson G & Garner S (2006) ‘Form generation: the value of physical objects in digital design’. Let's Get Physical: Tangible Interaction and Rapid Prototyping in, for, and about Design. A Design Computing and Cognition (DCC 2006) Workshop, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8th July.
Garner S (2005) 'Distance design education: Recent curriculum development at the Open University'. Crossing Design Boundaries, the Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE05) conference, Napier University, Edinburgh, 15-16 Sept. Eds., Rogers, P., Broadhurst L., & Hepburn D., pp377-381, Taylor Francis. London. ISBN 0 415 391180.
Garner S (2005) 'Embracing complexity: Using information and communication technologies (ICT) to support design education'. International workshop on Exploring complexity in collaborative design and solutions, Brunel University, 23-24 June.
Holden G & Garner S (2005) 'e-Learning in the development of design skills and knowledge at the Open University', in Proc., Designs on e-Learning, International conference on teaching and learning with technology in art, design and communication, University of the Arts, London, 14-16 Sept. ISBN 1-903455-09-X.
Prats M, Garner S, Jowers I, & Earl C (2004) Improving Product Design via a Shape Grammar Tool, in Proc., 8th International Design Conference (Design 2004), Dubrovnik, 17-20 May, pp477-482, ISBN 953-6313-60-X
Jowers I, Prats M, Earl C, & Garner S (2004) 'On curves and computation with shapes', in Akin O, Krishnamurti R, & Lam K.P. (eds). Generative CAD Systems Symposium (GCAD04) Pittsburgh, Penn., USA, Singapore:Carnegie Mellon Univ. pp439-457, .
Jowers I, Prats M, Earl C, & Garner S (2004) Generative Curves in Product Design, in Proc., International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC04), MIT, Cambridge, Mass, 19-21 July.
Garner S & Hodgson A (2003) ‘Alone and together: Design team working via portable computer tools’, in Proc., COST Action 269 conference on design usability 'Good, Bad and Irrelevant', Eds., Haddon, Mante-Maijer et al, University of Art & Design, Helsinki, 3-5 Sept., ISBN 951-558-125 7.
Garner S & Mann P (2002) ‘Interdisciplinarity: Perceptions of the value of computer supported collaborative work in design for the built environment’ in Proc., Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) conference 2002, Multimedia University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-20 April, pp221-228, Prentice Hall. ISBN 983-2473-42-X.
Johnson J, Hirst A, & Garner S (2002) ‘Designing the RoboFesta-Blue Peter Robots’, in Proc. of 7th Int. Symp on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB-02), Ed., M Sugiska, Beppu, 16-18 Jan., pp497-502.
Garner S (2001) ‘Is sketching still relevant in virtual design studios?’, in Proc., Design Computing on the Net (DCNet 2000), a refereed virtual conference, 15-19 Jan, Sydney University, http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/DCNet00/index.html.
Garner S (2000) ‘The employability of design graduates: A study of competencies achieved through undergraduate design education’, in Proc., Re-inventing Design Education in the University (Ed , Swann, C), Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 11-13 Dec, pp206-212, ISBN 1 74067 028 0.
Garner S & Duckworth A (1999) ‘Identifying key competences of Industrial Design and Technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises’, in Proc., of Int. Conf. on Design and Technology Educational Research and Curriculum Development (IDATER 99), Loughborough Univ., pp88-96, ISBN 1 899291 407.
Garner S (1997) ‘Innovation, collaboration and modelling: Issues for computer-based design teams’. in Proc., CADE 97: Digital Creativity, Univ of Derby, 1-4 April, pp105-112. ISBN 0 901437 58 1.
Garner S (1996) ‘Sketching in Computer Mediated Collaborative Design’, First Thoughts, a conference held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 26 Jan.
Connolly J, Clarke A, Garner S & Palmen H (1995) ‘Clause-Internal Structure in Spoken Dialogue’ in Andernach J, Van der Burgt S and Van der Hoeven G (eds) Corpus-based Approaches to Dialogue Modelling: Proc. Ninth Twente Workshop on Language Technology, Enschede: Universiteit Twente, pp13-23.
Garner S, Connolly J & Clarke A (1995) ‘Using Discourse Analysis as an Indicator of Design Progression’, in Cooper R (ed), Proc. of the European Academy of Design Conference, Vol 3, Salford Univ., 11-13 April. pp261-270, ISBN 0 952 5666 05.
Connolly J, Clarke A, Garner S, Palmen H (1994) ‘A Language of Co-operation?’, presented at the UK CSCW SIG Workshop on Linguistic Concepts and Methods in CSCW, DTI, Kingsgate House, London, 7 Nov.
Garner S (1993) ‘Drawing Research Methodology - The Best of Both Worlds’, Proc. Drawing for Design Conference, Glasgow School of Art, 12-13 Nov.
Garner S (1993) ‘A Comparison of Methods for Researching into Drawing within the field of Design’, in proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Design and Technology Educational Research (IDATER 93), Dept of Design & Technology, Loughborough Univ., pp84-96, ISBN 0 9518299 6 3, Sept.
Garner S (1991) ‘Drawing and its Contribution to Designing within Computer Supported Co-operative Working’. National Research Conference of Art and Design in Education, Brighton Conference Centre, 5-8.Dec.
Garner S (1991) ‘The Use of Design Activity for Research into Computer Supported Co-operative Working, in Proc. 4th National Conference on Design and Technology Educational Research, Dept of Design & Technology, Loughborough Univ., pp84-96.
Garner S & Norman E (1990) ‘Teaching Design and Technology within the National Curriculum: the Potential of Video’, Proc. 3rd National Conference on Design and Technology Education, Dept of Design & Technology, Loughborough Univ., pp80-85.
Garner S (1989) ‘Exploration and Manipulation Through Two Dimensional Modelling’, Proc. 2nd National Conference on Design and Technology Educational Research. Dept of Design & Technology, Loughborough Univ., Longman, pp43-50.
Garner S (1989) ‘Drawing Skills and Design Capability’. Drawing, Art and Development Conference, British Museum, London 19-22 July.
Garner S (1988) ‘NSEAD Bursary Winners Paper - Drawing and Designing’. NSEAD Centenary Conference, Bournemouth International Centre, 25-27 Oct.
Open University publications
Garner S (2004) 'An introduction to design and designing', Block 1, T211 Design and Designing, ISBN 0 7492 5906 X
Garner S & Earl C (2004) 'Detail design and manufacture' Block 5, T211 Design and Designing, ISBN 0 7492 5910 8
Garner S (2004) 'Case studies of design and designing', Block 6, T211 Design and Designing, ISBN 0 7492 5911 6
Garner S (2004) 'Modelling workbook', T211 Design and Designing, ISBN 0 7492 5912 4
Other scholarship and outputs
Garner S (2006) 'Design'. Entry in Encarta 2007 CD ROM multimedia encyclopaedia. 3000 word reference and historical account of the subject of Design. World English Edition, Websters International Publishers Ltd., London.
Garner S (2006) 'Ergonomics'. Entry in Encarta 2007 CD ROM multimedia encyclopaedia. 250 word reference and historical account of the subject of Ergonomics. World English Edition, Websters International Publishers Ltd., London.
Garner S (2006) 'Industrial Design'. Entry in Encarta 2007 CD ROM multimedia encyclopaedia. 2000 word reference and historical account of the subject of Industrial Design. Websters International Publishers Ltd., London.
Garner S (2002) Editorial, Tracey, an internet-based drawing research journal, Loughborough University, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/ Summer.
Garner S (1993) ‘Drawing up Ideas’, in Designing, Design Council, (commissioned article) pp2-3, No 32, Spring.
Garner S (1992) ‘The Need for Human Factors in Design and Technology’, in PRIME, Journal of the Technical Education Society of Singapore. p2, No 4, April.
Garner S & Norman E (1991) Design and Technology in the National Curriculum. Six video scripts comprising Introduction, Home, School, Recreation, Community, and Business and Industry. Produced and marketed by Curriculum Video Ltd, Aberystwyth.
Garner S (1991) ‘Dialogue Session with Visiting Lecturer’, in PRIME, Journal of the Technical Education Society of Singapore, No 3, November.
Garner S (1991) ‘Drawing and Designing: Exploration and Manipulation Through Two Dimensional Modelling’, in The Art of Design, exhibition catalogue, Drumcroon, Wigan Education Arts Centre, April, 1991
In progress
Garner S & Evans C (Eds) Design and Designing: A Critical Introduction. Undergraduate reader (pp350) to be published by Berg in Spring 2012.
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