The thesis has two main purposes:
To develop a view of design as a concept formation process, where the designer gradually defines an unknown design object by relating it to known concepts.
To develop the framework of a Design Process Language (DPL) that can be used to express knowledge about the design process and the design object.
The author starts by discussing literature on design research and cognitive psychology, finding commonalities in how design and intelligent problem-solving are viewed as involving the establishment of relationships. Existing knowledge representation approaches are then examined and found insufficient for fully describing the design process and object.
The author proposes viewing the design process as one of concept formation, where the designer tries to define an unknown design object by relating it to known concepts. The DPL is then developed based on linguistic categories like verb relations, preposition relations, and modifiers. These relations can be used to describe both the design process (e.g. activities, decisions) and the design object (e.g. structure, function).
A key contribution of the DPL is that it contains relations for describing both process and object within the same general system. The language also supports modal relations like possibility and hypotheticals, which are important in the design process. Overall, the DPL is argued to provide a foundation for enabling computers to be more useful in the design process through a flexible and dynamic description of both the process and the object.
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by Arnulf Hagen às arxiv.org 04-23-2024
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