The Cognitive Artifacts Of Designing

Author : Willemien Visser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482269529

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The Cognitive Artifacts of Designing by Willemien Visser Pdf

In this dynamic review and synthesis of empirical research and theoretical discussion of design as cognitive activity, Willemien Visser reconciles and integrates the classical view of design, as conceptualized by Herbert Simon's symbolic information processing approach, with modern views of design such as the situativity approach, as formulated by Donald Schön. The author goes on to develop her own view on design, in which design is most appropriately characterized as a construction of representations. The Cognitive Artifacts of Designing takes seriously the idea that design research warrants development in the cognitive sciences, and Visser lays the groundwork for the integration of design research and cognitive science. This seemingly simple framework -- designing is the construction of representations -- has implications that set the stage for this mutually beneficial integration. This volume will be of great interest to scholars concerned with design -- not only in cognitive design studies, but also in design methodology and engineering -- as well as cognitive scientists who are interested in problem solving in 'the real world.' Cognitive ergonomists and design practitioners will also be richly rewarded by a close reading of this volume.

Author : C. Eastman,W. Newstetter,M. McCracken
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780080530314

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Design Knowing and Learning by C. Eastman,W. Newstetter,M. McCracken Pdf

Wide aspects of a university education address design: the conceptualization, planning and implementation of man-made artifacts. All areas of engineering, parts of computer science and of course architecture and industrial design all claim to teach design. Yet the education of design tends ot follow tacit practices, without explicit assumptions, goals and processes. This book is premised on the belief that design education based on a cognitive science approach can lead to significant improvements in the effectiveness of university design courses and to the future capabilities of practicing designers. This applies to all professional areas of design. The book grew out of publications and a workshop focusing on design education. This volume attempts to outline a framework upon which new efforts in design education might be based. The book includes chapters dealing with six broad aspects of the study of design education: • Methodologies for undertaking studies of design learning • Longitudinal assessment of design learning • Methods and cases for assessing beginners, experts and special populations • Studies of important component processes • Structure of design knowledge • Design cognition in the classroom

Author : Henrik Gedenryd
Publisher : Lund University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cognition
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021500728

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How Designers Work by Henrik Gedenryd Pdf

Author : Robin S. Adams,Junaid A. Siddiqui
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781557537232

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Analyzing Design Review Conversations by Robin S. Adams,Junaid A. Siddiqui Pdf

The outcome of DTRS 10 held at Purdue University in 2014.

Author : Jia Zhou,Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030220129

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance by Jia Zhou,Gavriel Salvendy Pdf

This two-volume set LNCS 11592 and 11593 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA. HCII 2019 received a total of 5029 submissions, of which 1275 papers and 209 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 86 papers presented in these two volumes are organized in topical sections named: Design with and for the Elderly, Aging and Technology Acceptance, Aging and the User Experience, Elderly-Specific Web Design, Aging and Social Media, Games and Exergames for the Elderly, Ambient Assisted Living, Aging, Motion, Cognition, Emotion and Learning.

Author : Giovanni Gavetti,William Ocasio
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784419455

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Cognition & Strategy by Giovanni Gavetti,William Ocasio Pdf

This volume has two goals. First, it intends to attract a representative sample of the most significant empirical and theoretical developments in the field of cognition and strategy. Second, it intends to take stock of these developments by proposing a preliminary synthesis of the disparate advances in this field.

Author : Yuhua Luo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642326097

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering by Yuhua Luo Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2012, held in Osaka, Japan, in September 2012. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover the topics of cooperative engineering, basic theories, methods and technologies that support CDVE, cooperative design, visualization and applications.

Author : Brigitte Borja de Mozota,Steinar Valade-Amland
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781952538278

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Design: A Business Case by Brigitte Borja de Mozota,Steinar Valade-Amland Pdf

Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills–to bridge mind and matter, image and identity. Design thinking is a framework developed to ensure C-suite endorsement of the pursuit of design excellence in all actions undertaken by the organization. Design management is a rigorous and strategically anchored mechanism to capitalize on the investment in design as intellectual capital. And design – as we’ve always known it – is the skills, methods and creative capabilities needed to embody ideas and direction. Design thinking inspires, design management enables, design embodies. This book aims to build the bridges needed to reconcile the three, and to encourage organizational and professional environments in which their combined forces can thrive and reverberate.

Author : John. S Gero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319449890

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Design Computing and Cognition '16 by John. S Gero Pdf

This book gathers the peer-reviewed and revised versions of papers from the Seventh International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'16), held at Northwestern University, Evanston (Chicago), USA, from 27–29 June 2016. The material presented here reflects cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories. The papers are grouped under the following nine headings, describing advances in theory and applications alike and demonstrating the depth and breadth of design computing and design cognition: Design Creativity; Design Cognition - Design Approaches; Design Support; Design Grammars; Design Cognition - Design Behaviors; Design Processes; Design Synthesis; Design Activity and Design Knowledge. The book will be of particular interest to researchers, developers and users of advanced computation in design across all disciplines, and to all readers who need to gain a better understanding of designing.

Author : Ron Wakkary
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262366830

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Things We Could Design by Ron Wakkary Pdf

How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled. Over the past forty years, designers have privileged human values such that human-centered design is seen as progressive. Yet because all that is not human has been depleted, made extinct, or put to human use, today's design contributes to the existential threat of climate change and the ongoing extinctions of other species. In Things We Could Design, Ron Wakkary argues that human-centered design is not the answer to our problems but is itself part of the problem. Drawing on philosophy, design theory, and numerous design works, he shows the way to a relational and expansive design based on humility and cohabitation. Wakkary says that design can no longer ignore its exploitation of nonhuman species and the materials we mine for and reduce to human use. Posthumanism, he argues, enables a rethinking of design that displaces the human at the center of thought and action. Weaving together posthumanist philosophies with design, he describes what he calls things--nonhumans made by designers--and calls for a commitment to design with more than human participation. Wakkary also focuses on design as "nomadic practices"--a multiplicity of intentionalities and situated knowledges that shows design to be expansive and pluralistic. He calls his overall approach "designing-with": the practice of design in a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, and in which we are bound together materially, ethically, and existentially.

Author : Ilpo Koskinen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780123855022

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Design Research Through Practice by Ilpo Koskinen Pdf

Human Computer Interaction (HCI), user interface design en usability.

Author : Laura Sanderson,Sally Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000452297

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Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy by Laura Sanderson,Sally Stone Pdf

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy explores the emergent techniques in architectural education that are helping to bridge the gap between the institutional setting and working practice. It demonstrates how teaching and learning can, and should, be directed towards tackling the real-world problems that students will encounter within their professional careers. Architectural and design practitioners are becoming less specialised, they are embracing cross-disciplinary connections and practical problem-solving. Architecture and design schools must align their teaching to reflect this changing world, and evolve from a fact-based acquisition process to a participatory method of learning. This book uses an extended case-study format to examine large-scale issues. Each chapter represents a specific mode of practice, which is linked to the wider debate on architectural and design pedagogy; this includes collaborative workshops and interventions, issues connected to sustainability and climate change, responses to rapid urbanisation, and, the creation of collaborative relationships across disciplines. The book has an international perspective, with contributions from the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Singapore, and includes a timely discussion on teaching in a remote climate. This book will be an invaluable resource for engaged academics and teaching practitioners interested in playing a key role in the future development of the architectural profession.

Author : Christopher Baber
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262369879

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Embodying Design by Christopher Baber Pdf

Rethinking design through the lens of embodied cognition provides a novel way of understanding human interaction with technology. In this book, Christopher Baber uses embodied cognition as a lens through which to view both how designers engage in creative practices and how people use designed artifacts. This view of cognition as enactive, embedded, situated, or distributed, without recourse to internal representations, provides a theoretical grounding that makes possible a richer account of human interaction with technology. This understanding of everyday interactions with things in the world reveals opportunities for design to intervene. Moreover, Baber argues, design is an embodied activity in which the continual engagement between designers and their materials is at the heart of design practice. Baber proposes that design and creativity should be considered in dynamic, rather than discrete, terms and explores “task ecologies”—the concept of environment as it relates to embodied cognition. He uses a theory of affordance as an essential premise for design practice, arguing that affordances are neither form nor function but arise from the dynamics within the human-artifact-environment system. Baber explores agency and intent of smart devices and implications of tangible user interfaces and activity recognition for human-computer interaction. He proposes a systems view of human-artifact-environment interactions—to focus on any one component or pairing misses the subtleties of these interactions. The boundaries between components remain, but the borders that allow exchange of information and action are permeable, which gives rise to synergies and interactions.

Author : Barry Allen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780801457029

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Artifice and Design by Barry Allen Pdf

"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. In the best work (the best design, the most well made), the look and feel of a device (its aesthetic, perceptual interface) is as important a part of the design problem as its mechanism (the interface of parts and systems). We have no idea how to make something that is merely efficient, a rational instrument blindly indifferent to how it appears. No engineer can design such a thing and none has ever been built."—from Artifice and Design In an intriguing book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts-knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology-and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of Artifice and Design in Allen's discussion of seven bridges: he focuses at length on two New York bridges—the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge—and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work. Allen starts from the conviction that art and technology must be treated together, as two aspects of a common, technical human nature. The topics covered in Artifice and Design are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and the history and anthropology of art and technology. The book concludes that it is a mistake to think of art as something subjective, or as an arbitrary social representation, and of Technology as an instrumental form of purposive rationality. "By segregating art and technology," Allen writes, "we divide ourselves against ourselves, casting up self-made obstacles to the ingenuity of art and technology."

Author : Eswaran Subrahmanian,Yoram Reich,Sruthi Krishnan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262356480

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We Are Not Users by Eswaran Subrahmanian,Yoram Reich,Sruthi Krishnan Pdf

A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. We live in a material world of designed artifacts, both digital and analog. We think of ourselves as users; the platforms, devices, or objects provide a service that we can use. But is this really the case? We Are Not Users argues that people cannot be reduced to the entity called “user”; we are not homogenous but diverse. That buzz of dissonance that we hear reflects the difficulty of condensing our diversity into “one size fits all.” This book proposes that a new understanding of design could resolve that dissonance, and issues a call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. The authors envision designing as a dialogue, simultaneously about the individual and the social—an act enriched by diversity of both disciplines and perspectives. The book presents the building blocks of a language that can conceive designing in all its richness, with relevance for both theory and practice. It introduces a theoretical model, terminology, examples, and a framework for bringing together the social, cultural, and political aspects of designing. It will be essential reading for design theorists and for designers in areas ranging from architecture to software design and policymaking.