
Quantitative Methods for Studying Design Protocols
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 22. June 2017
Book
Hardback
IX, 180 pages
978-94-024-0982-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
55 farbige Abbildungen, 55 s/w Abbildungen
IX, 180 p. 110 illus., 55 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-024-0982-6 (9789402409826)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-024-0984-0
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Quantitative Methods for Studying Design Protocols
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Quantitative Methods for Studying Design Protocols
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Content
Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Background.- 3 Theoretical Framework.- 4 Ontologically-Based Studies of Design Protocols.- 5 Pilot Study of Statistical and Entropic description of linkographs.- 6 Entropic Measurement and Design Outcome.- 7 Conclusions.- References.- Appendix A.