Showing papers in "Design Studies in 1987"

TL;DR: It is shown than in order to establish a scientific theory of design, the following aspects need to be studied and covered: the designer, the activity, the object, the context in which engineering design takes place, and the context of use of the resulting technical system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings of a survey of design practice in small engineering and textiles companies in Scotland and emphasize the methodological problems of researching design in small companies, and suggest some methods for overcoming these problems.

TL;DR: These studies indicate that a fourfold strategy for information transfer will lead to more fruitful communication with architectural designers, and an awareness of designers' selective information requirement is elucidated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of a personal sense of identity and experience of an imago are considered as aspects of the creative process which lead to awareness of higher levels of creative thinking.

TL;DR: In this article, a new way of structuring group design processes is described to take advantage of these differences in perception and reveal archetypal formal solutions which otherwise would remain below the threshold of conscious thought.

TL;DR: An approach to creative designing with computers is that of ‘prototype modification’, where the distinction between innovative design and design by modification results only from the quality and nature of the prototypes and modifications involved.

TL;DR: A number of knowledge elicitation techniques are reviewed including interviewing, questionnaires, attitude scaling, projective tests, repertory grid and observation of behaviour.

TL;DR: Key features of the design process where traditional computer-aided design approaches have had limited success are presented and the approach of expert systems, which shows promise of assisting in these features, is outlined and a system based on this approach, DESIGNER, is described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the value of time frame discrepancies is discussed as a means of accounting for certain aspects of uncertainty confronting design decision-makers, distinguished from organizational lag by reference to a systems framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a brief overview of some recurrent approaches that have been applied to stimulate the formulation, representation and communication of ideas and values between different groups of people during the planning of new residential environments.

TL;DR: It has been proposed that design is characterized by distinct modes of inference, related to logic programming, and considered with a design-like problem.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between design strategies and the range of alternative technical solutions available to designers is examined in the light of examples taken from the aircraft industry and the modernisation of Britain's railways.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for an acceptance of qualitative approaches to the evaluation of technology as a complement to the existing quantitative techniques and argue that qualitative methodologies, with their origins in the phenomenological-hermeneutic traditions, focus on the mediational role of technology between the individual and his environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a suggested methodology for a complete appraisal of residential environment expressed by its users based on a subjective (but comunicable) estimation of the degree of fulfilment of man's basic psychological needs connected with his residential environment.

TL;DR: A scenario for future computerized design incorporating the finite element analysis technique is presented and discussed and the feasibility of the scenario is demonstrated using an example from structural steelwork design.

TL;DR: Although effort to use expert systems in design goes back a long way, widespread awareness of promise has emerged in the last five years, with some key messages for various audiences being offered.

TL;DR: The theoretical basis of computer-aided design (CAD) education and research relevant to the establishment of a micro-CAD laboratory in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) is investigated and an interactive education andResearch model is developed.

TL;DR: The use of expert systems in design involves certain difficulties, not least of these is eliciting information from the expert, and computational issues concern logic and the understanding of concepts by the machine.

TL;DR: In this paper, the focus is on the New Right ideology as applied in architecture; in particular, Alice Coleman's scientific critique of planned housing, highlighting her characteristically regressive view of social life, her mean notion of design, and her modish dismissal of utopian desire in architecture.

TL;DR: How videodisc technology can enhance designers' decision-making experiences is shown, including the Portsmouth DIRU interactive explorative system.

TL;DR: In view of lack of clarity in the concept of "quality" in buildings, the authors examines generally some judgements made by assessors of award-winning buildings and identifies attributes of the buildings noted by the assessors.

TL;DR: In this article, the cognitive dissonance experience in CAD system acquisition by architectural professionals in Singapore was studied in terms of the factors considered in an acquisition, the features looked for a system, the aspects of vendor support required and the reasons for making the acquisition.