Analysing Design Activity

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-471-96060-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 996 g

Design encompasses some of the highest cognitive abilities of human beings, including creativity, synthesis and problem solving. A substantial and varied range of research methods has been developed and adopted for the analysis of design activity, but until now it has been difficult to compare the work of different researchers using different methods. This book contains the results of an international workshop held in Delft, The Netherlands, which focused on one particular research method, that of protocol analysis. Researchers from seventeen different leading centres around the world were invited to analyse the same video recordings of designers working on an engineering product design. The 20 chapters in this book are the records of that workshop, providing rich insights into the design process and an overview of accumulated knowledge on design from these researchers. There is also a discussion of the properties and limitations of protocol analysis as a research technique for analysing design activity. The book is a substantial contribution to developing understanding of the nature of design activity, and is of value to researchers, teachers and practitioners of design.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cross, Nigel

Christiaans, Henri

Dorst, Kees

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Delft Protocols Workshop 1
Nigel Cross, Henri Christiaans and Kees Dorst

1 The Design Problem and Its Structure 17

K. Dorst

2 Design Protocol and Novel Design Decisions 35
Omer Atkin and Chengtah Lin

3 The Designer as a Team of One 65
Gabriela Goldschmidt

4 Ingredients of the Design Process: A Comparison Between Group and Individual Work 93

Srinivasan Dwarakanath and Lucienne Blessing

5 Investgations Individuals and Team Design Processes 117
Joachin Gunther, Eckart Frankenberger and Peter Auer

6  Design Strategies 133
Can Baykan

7 Understanding Information Management in Comceptual Design 151
Vinod Baya and Larry J. Leifer

8 Analysis of Protocol Data to Identify Product Information Evolution and Desicion Making Process 169
David G. Ullman, Derald Herling and Alex Sinton

9 Analysis of Design Protocol by Functional Evolution Process Model 187
Hideraki Takeda, et al.

10 Design Activity Structural Categories 211
Vesna Popovic

11 The Data in Design Protocols: The Issue of Data Coding, Data Analysis in the Development of Models of the Design Process 225

Terry Purcell, John Gero, Helen Edwards and Tom McNeill

12 Comparing Paradigms for Describing Design Activity 253
Kees Dorst and Judith Dijkhuis

13 Use of Episodic Knowledge and Information in Design Problem Solving 271
Willemien Visser

14 Observations of Teamwork and Social Processes in Design 291
Nigil Cross and Anita Clayburn Cross

15 Collaboration in Design Teams: How Social Interaction Shapes the Product 319
Margot F. Brereton, David M. Cannon, Ade Mabogunje and Larry J. Leifer

16 Concurrency of Actions, Ideas and Knowledge Displays within a Design Team 343

David F. Radcliffe

17 Design as a Topos-based Argumentative Activity: a Protocol Anaylsis Study
Brigitte Trousee and Henri Christiaans

18 Representing Design Workspace Activity 389
Maryliza Mazijoglou, Stephen Scrivener and Sean Clark

19 A Bike in Hand: a Study of 3-D Objects in Design 417
Steve Harrison and Scott Minnemen

20 Can Concurrent Verbalisation Reveal Design Cognition? 437
Peter Lloyd, Bryan Lawson and Peter Scott

References 462

Über Autor(innen)

Nigel Cross is a professor and leading international figure in the world of design research and methodology. He is a long-time member of the academic staff of the UK's pioneering, multimedia Open University, where he has been involved in developing a wide range of distance-education courses in design,. He has also held visiting appointments in The Netherlands, Australia and the USA. His research interests are principally in understanding the nature of design ability, and the development of design skill from novice to expert. Professor Cross is also editor-in-chief of Design Studies, the international journal of design research.

Henri Christiaans is a professor and Dean of the School of Design & Human Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology. He is also an invited professor at the School of Architecture of University in Minho, Portugal. He has earned a master's degree in psychology and a PhD in Industrial Design Engineering.