Abstract
Studies on design, show that problem formulation plays a major role in creative design. We plan to construct an interactive computer system that aids problem formulation. In the current stage, to improve our understanding of problem formulation, we have conducted exploratory protocol studies of novice designers and collected data from an expert designer in the form of a depositional interview. A formal representation of the design problem is needed to improve our empirical investigation. We propose a preliminary framework for such a model and we call it a problem map. It provides a basis for comparing how different designers perceive a problem. Our study is based on the design of a model aircraft for the AIAA student design competition. This preliminary analysis shows the evolution of the problem and the solution spaces in the elaboration of the problem maps through time. The problem maps also show a richer representation of attended attributes and relations for the expert and more attributes left in vacuum for the novices.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference |
| Pages | 263-272 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Volume | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Event | ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2011 - Washington, DC, United States Duration: Aug 28 2011 → Aug 31 2011 |
Other
| Other | ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2011 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Washington, DC |
| Period | 8/28/11 → 8/31/11 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Computer Science Applications
- Modeling and Simulation
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Towards a formal representation model of problem formulation in design. / Dinar, Mahmoud; Shah, Jami; Hunt, Glen; Campana, Ellen; Langley, Pat.
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference. Vol. 9 2011. p. 263-272.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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