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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Why a Book About Quantitative Methods and Design Protocols?; 1.1.1 Understanding Designing; 1.1.2 Design Assessment; 1.1.3 Tools for Studying Designing; 1.2 Structure of the Book; 2 Background; 2.1 Studying Designers; 2.1.1 Protocol Analysis; 2.1.2 Measurement of Design Protocols; 2.1.3 Linkography; 2.2 Design: Process or Artefacts; 2.2.1 Design Ideas; 2.2.2 Design Process and Design Outcome Assessment; 2.3 Conclusions; 3 Theoretical Framework; 3.1 Design Ontology and Ontological-Based Coding; 3.1.1 FBS Ontology and Coding; 3.1.2 Situated FBS Ontology |
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3.2 Meta-Analysis of Design Protocols Based on FBS Ontological Coding3.3 Linkography; 3.4 Syntactic Design Process; 3.4.1 FBS-Based Design Issues of an Episode; 3.4.2 Syntactic Design Process of the Episode; 3.4.3 Situated FBS-Based Design Issues of an Episode; 3.4.4 Using Markov Chains to Describe the Design Process; 3.4.5 Some Properties of Markov Chains; 3.5 Semantic Design Process; 3.5.1 Deriving FBS Design Processes; 3.5.2 Deriving Situated FBS Design Processes; 3.6 Statistical Analysis; 3.6.1 Descriptive Statistics of Design Issues and Processes |
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3.6.2 Statistical Inference of Design Protocol: p Value3.6.3 Statistical Description of Linkographs; 3.7 Information Theory; 3.7.1 Entropic Measurement of Linkographs; 3.7.2 Normalizing Entropic Measurement for Comparison; 3.8 Summary; 4 Ontologically-Based Studies of Design Protocols; 4.1 Case One: A Brainstorming Session; 4.1.1 Qualitative Analysis; 4.1.2 Segments and Coding; 4.1.3 Linking the Segments; 4.1.4 Deriving Semantic FBS Processes from Coded Segments and Links; 4.1.5 Syntactic Design Processes: Markov Analysis; 4.1.6 Deriving Situated FBS Processes; 4.1.7 Findings in Case One |
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4.2 Case Two: Face-to-Face Versus Computer-Mediated4.2.1 Qualitative Analysis; 4.2.2 Ontological Coding of Both Sessions; 4.2.3 The Eight FBS Processes of Both Sessions; 4.2.4 Markov Analysis; 4.2.5 Findings and Discussion for Case Two; 4.3 Case Three: Statistical Exploration of the Effects of Education on Design Cognition; 4.3.1 Participants and the Experimental Setup; 4.3.2 Results and Findings of Case Three; 4.4 Case Four: Metacognition of Designing-Problem-Solution Index; 4.4.1 FBS Design Issues Mapping and Problem-Solution Index; 4.4.2 The Experiment; 4.4.3 Results and Findings |
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4.5 Conclusions5 Pilot Study of Statistical and Entropic Description of Linkographs; 5.1 Two Sessions; 5.1.1 In Situ Face-to-Face Design Session; 5.1.2 In Vitro NetMeeting Design Session; 5.1.3 Qualitative Differences of the Two Sessions; 5.2 Linkography Analysis of Cases; 5.3 Statistics and Clustering of Links; 5.3.1 Statistical Description of the Two Sessions; 5.3.2 Cluster Analysis of the Two Sessions; 5.4 Entropic Measurements; 5.4.1 Entropy of the Two Sessions; 5.4.2 Entropic Measurement of Individuals; 5.4.3 Changes in Entropy During the Session; 5.5 Findings and Discussions |
| Summary |
This book is aimed at researchers and students who would like to engage in and deepen their understanding of design cognition research. The book presents new approaches for analyzing design thinking and proposes methods of measuring design processes. These methods seek to quantify design issues and design processes that are defined based on notions from the Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) design ontology and from linkography. A linkograph is a network of linked design moves or segments. FBS ontology concepts have been used in both design theory and design thinking research and have yielded numerous results. Linkography is one of the most influential and elegant design cognition research methods. In this book Kan and Gero provide novel and state-of-the-art methods of analyzing design protocols that offer insights into design cognition by integrating segmentation with linkography by assigning FBS-based codes to design moves or segments and treating links as FBS transformation processes. They propose and test information entropy as a means to capture the information carried by a linkograph and correlate it with the design outcomes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Design -- Study and teaching.
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ART -- Folk & Outsider Art.
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Folkcrafts.
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Design -- Study and teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gero, John S., author
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| ISBN |
9789402409840 |
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940240984X |
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9402409823 |
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9789402409826 |
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