Design Computing and Cognition '08

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Shape Grammars

   1. Automating the Creation of Shape Grammar Rules

      • Seth Orsborn, Jonathan Cagan, Peter Boatwright

      Pages 3-22

   2. Ontologies and Shape Grammars: Communication between Knowledge-Based and Generative Systems

      • Francois Grobler, Ajla Aksamija, Hyunjoo Kim, Ramesh Krishnamurti, Kui Yue, Casey Hickerson

      Pages 23-40

   3. Categorisation of Designs According to Preference Values for Shape Rules

      • Sungwoo Lim, Miquel Prats, Scott Chase, Steve Garner

      Pages 41-60

   4. A Technique for Implementing a Computation-Friendly Shape Grammar Interpreter

      • Kui Yue, Ramesh Krishnamurti

      Pages 61-80

   5. Approximating Shapes with Topologies

      • Djordje Krstic

      Pages 81-100

3. Design Cognition – 1

   1. Diagrams as Tools in the Design of Information Systems

      • Jeffrey V. Nickerson, James E. Corter, Barbara Tversky, Doris Zahner, Yun Jin Rho

      Pages 103-122

   2. Form as a Visual Encounter: Using Eye Movement Studies for Design Reasoning

      • Ameya Athavankar

      Pages 123-142

   3. The Role of Immersivity in Three-Dimensional Mental Rotation

      • Maria Kozhevnikov, Jodie Royan, Olesya Blazhenkova, Andrey Gorbunov

      Pages 143-157

   4. Comprehension of Layout Complexity: Effects of Architectural Expertise and Mode of Presentation

      • Christoph Hölscher, Ruth Conroy Dalton

      Pages 159-178

4. Knowledge-Based Design

   1. GUITAR HERO, a Knowledge-Based System to Support Creativity in the Design and Manufacturing of Electric Guitars

      • Stefania Bandini, Andrea Bonomi, Fabio Sartori

      Pages 181-200

   2. Discovering Implicit Constraints in Design

      • Madan Mohan Dabbeeru, Amitabha Mukerjee

      Pages 201-220

   3. Capturing Decisions and Rationale from Collaborative Design

      • Janet E. Burge, James D. Kiper

      Pages 221-239

   4. Extending the Situated Function-Behaviour-Structure Framework for User-Centered Software Design

      • Matthias Uflacker, Alexander Zeier

      Pages 241-259

   5. Empirical Examination of the Functional Basis and Design Repository

      • Benjamin W Caldwell, Chiradeep Sen, Gregory M Mocko, Joshua D Summers, Georges M Fadel

      Pages 261-280

5. Sketching, Diagrams and Visualization

   1. Is There Anything to Expect from 3D Views in Sketching Support Tools?

      • Françoise Darses, Anaïs Mayeur, Catherine Elsen, Pierre Leclercq

      Pages 283-302

   2. Idea Development Can Occur Using Imagery Only

      • Zafer Bilda, John S. Gero

      Pages 303-320

   3. Reaching Out in the Mind's Space

      • Uday Athavankar, P. Bokil, K. Guruprasad, R. Patsute, S. Sharma

      Pages 321-340

   4. From Diagrams to Design: Overcoming Knowledge Acquisition Barriers for Case Based Design

      • Michael E. Helms, Ashok K. Goel

      Pages 341-360

   5. Unraveling Complexity

      • Athanassios Economou, Thomas Grasl

      Pages 361-373

The importance of research and education in design continues to grow. For example, government agencies are gradually increasing funding of design research, and increasing numbers of engineering schools are revising their curricula to emphasize design. This is because of an increasing realization that design is part of the wealth creation of a nation and needs to be better understood and taught. The continuing globalization of industry and trade has required nations to re-examine where their core contributions lie if not in production efficiency. Design is a precursor to manufacturing for phy- cal objects and is the precursor to implementation for virtual objects. At the same time, the need for sustainable development is requiring design of new products and processes, and feeding a movement towards design - novations and inventions. There are now three sources for design research: design computing, design cognition and human-centered information technology. The foun- tions for much of design computing remains artificial intelligence with its focus on ways of representation and on processes that support simulation and generation. Artificial intelligence continues to provide an environm- tally rich paradigm within which design research based on computational constructions can be carried out. Design cognition is founded on concepts from cognitive science, an even newer area than artificial intelligence. It provides tools and methods to study human designers in both laboratory and practice settings.

• 3D
• Archive
• algorithms
• architecture
• artificial intelligence
• communication
• complexity
• design
• information system
• layout
• ontology
• optimization
• sketch
• sketching
• visualization

• Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, USA

  John S. Gero

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA

  Ashok K. Goel

JOHN GERO is a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Study and at the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University and a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Formerly he was Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, at the University of Sydney. He is the author or editor of 43 books and over 550 papers in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or Cognitive Science at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL-Lausanne in Switzerland. His former doctoral students are professors in the USA, UK, Australia, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.

He has been the recipient of many excellence awards including the Harkness Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships, two SRC Fellowships and various named chairs. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals related to design science, computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering and is the chair of the international conference series Artificial Intelligence in Design, the new conference series Design Computing and Cognition and the international conference series Computational Models of Creative Design.

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