Design of Next Generation Products by Novice Designers Using Function Based Design Interpretation
Several researches confirm that novice designers need to gain many abilities to perform like experts in the field. Design interpretation is a technique to analyze the working product and identify the functions performed by an artifact in the form of a fun
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Abstract Several researches confirm that novice designers need to gain many abilities to perform like experts in the field. Design interpretation is a technique to analyze the working product and identify the functions performed by an artifact in the form of a function tree. This paper reports an investigation into the design of an Operating Table by novice designers and the use of Design Interpretation to gain abilities to perform like experts. The observations were made with respect to (1) Organized structure and cognitive action (2) Scoping and information gathering (3) Consideration of alternatives (4) Time spent on activities and tasks (5) gathering basic data (6) adaptive expertise and (7) procedural expertise. The results suggest that novice designers gain by carrying out design interpretation of the current generation when designing the next generation. Keywords Design interpretation
Adaptive design Next generation products
1 Introduction A design expert is a person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge or skill in the design area. A novice in the meantime is a person new to the field or activity. An expert therefore will normally have knowledge about the product, or at least sufficient ability to acquire the product specific knowledge needed, with ease. The novice on the other hand will have limitations in both product specific S. Sivaloganathan (&) A. Abdulrahman S. Al Dousari A. Al Shamsi A. Al Ameri Department of Mechanical Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, 17555Al Ain, United Arab Emirates e-mail: [email protected]
A. Chakrabarti and R. V. Prakash (eds.), ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_94, Ó Springer India 2013
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and design domain knowledge. Ahmed et al. [1, 2] investigated the experienced and novice and conclude that (1) significant differences between them are present and the differences are noticeable in the early stages, and (2) supply of additional information expressed or used by the experienced designers is a credible way to support the novice designers. Systematic product development starts with establishing the elements of a societal need called requirements and the process goes through the stages where specifications and conceptual, embodiment and detailed designs are being produced. From an input–output or black box visualization, requirements are the input and specifications are the output, specifications are the input and conceptual designs are the output and so on as shown in Fig. 1. Every product will have these in an explicit or implicit form. Next generation products are improved variations of existing products. The variation may originate by having additional requirements, tighter specifications or/and better conceptual, embodiment and detailed part designs due the use of better insights and the usage
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