Quantitative Methods for Studying Design Protocols
This book is aimed at researchers and students who would like to engage in and deepen their understanding of design cognition research. The book presents new approaches for analyzing design thinking and proposes methods of measuring design processes. Thes
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Quantitative Methods for Studying Design Protocols
Quantitative Methods for Studying Design Protocols
Jeff W.T. Kan John S. Gero •
Quantitative Methods for Studying Design Protocols
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Jeff W.T. Kan Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
John S. Gero Computer Science and Architecture University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC USA and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study George Mason University Fairfax, VA USA
ISBN 978-94-024-0982-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-024-0984-0
ISBN 978-94-024-0984-0
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Preface
This book addresses the development of quantitative tools intended to improve the understanding of design activities. The motivation of the research was to understand human design processes and test new approaches to analyse design protocols. Two foundational concepts are presented: (1) an ontologically based coding scheme and (2) linkography that utilises that coding scheme. The FunctionBehaviour-Structure (FBS) ontology is used as a foundation to understand designing and to examine design protocols—protocols are segmented and coded according to FBS design issues. This provides a coding method that is independent of the design domain, the number of designers, whether the designers are collocated or not, and whether or not they use tools. Linkographs are composed of the semantic connections between segments. Since each segment is already coded with an FBS design issue, a link defines the transformation of one FBS design issue to another—in other words—a design process. Such a linkograph generates all the design processes in a design proto
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