Abstract Co-evolution accounts have generally been used to describe how problems and solutions both change during the design process. More generally, problems and solutions can be considered as analytic categories, where change is seen to occur within categories or across categories. There are more categories of interest than just problems and solutions, for example, the participants in a design process (such as members of a design team or different design teams) and categories defined by design ontologies (such as function-behaviour-structure or concept-knowledge). In this paper, we consider the co-evolution of different analytic categories (not just problems and solutions), by focussing on how changes to a category originate either from inside or outside that category. We then illustrate this approach by applying it to data from a single design session using three different systems of categorisation (problems and solutions, different designers and function, behaviour and structure). This allows us to represent the reciprocal influence of change within and between these different categories, while using a common notation and common approach to graphing quantitative data. Our approach demonstrates how research traditions that are currently distinct from each other (such as co-evolution, collaboration and function-behaviour-structure) can be connected by a single analytic approach.
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Creation and Characterization of Design Spaces
Designers advance in the design processes by creating and expanding the
design space where the solution they develop unfolds. This process requires the co-
evolution of the problem and the solution spaces through design state changes. In this
paper, we provide a methodology to capture how designers create, structure and
expand their design space across time. Design verbalizations from a team of three
professional engineers are coded into design elements from the Function-Behavior-
Structure ontology to identify the characteristics of design state changes. Three types
of changes can occur: a change within the problem space, a change within the solution
space or a change between the problem and the solution spaces or inversely. The
paper explores how to represent such changes by generating a network of design
concepts. By tracking the evolution of the design space over time, we represent how
the design space expands as the design activity progresses.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1762415
- PAR ID:
- 10525631
- Editor(s):
- Lockton, Dan; Lenzi, Sara
- Publisher / Repository:
- DRS
- Date Published:
- ISSN:
- 9780367772000
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1-15;
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- design spaces teams first occurrences
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Bibao, Spain
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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