This book provides an accurate overview of the recent research or industrial application in interactive design. The different arguments, taken from the international conference Virtual Concept 2005, will provide the reader with some advanced solutions concerning new methods and tools by discussing modelling techniques, design solution space exploration and interactive process organization.

Xavier Fischer is engineer in mechanical engineering, professor at the Ecole supérieure des technologies industrielles avancées (ESTIA), associate researcher at Lab. TREFLE (UMR CNRS 8508) and editor in chief of the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) published by Springer France.