Overview
- Comprehensive list of research methods applicable across the disciplines in which design is important
- Shows readers how to reflect on their own processes and methods for designing, using this understanding to devise new and more effective ways to design
- Demonstrates methods of doing design research which will increase its industrial significance and academic standing by increasing procedural rigour and systematizing improvements in methods
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Both authors have been involved in design research for more than two decades, developing a deeper understanding of design and various effective forms of support for designers in the various stages of the design process. Lucienne Blessing has undertaken a variety of empirical design studies to better understand the design process as well as the requirements of methods and tools for design, resulting, e.g. in a support system for design. She has been teaching DRM - the Design Research Methodology described in this book - for ten years in an annual international Summer School on Engineering Design Research for PhD students. She received an award at the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED97) for her contribution to design science. The second author's research led to the development of computer support for the creation of novel solutions for engineering design problems. For this work he received an award in the Morgans-Grampian UK Manufacturing Industry Awards competition. He has been teaching DRM to research students in India for seven years in an annual one Semester Course on Design Research Methodology for Masters and PhD students. The authors have led research teams, supervised a large number of student design research projects, in particular PhD research, and have been involved in a large number of design projects. The first author is are Co-Editor-in-Chief for Springer’s Research in Engineering Design journal (the second is on the advisory board), and both are Advisory Editors of several other journals including Journal of Engineering Design (Taylor & Francis), AI EDAM (Cambridge University Press), and Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier). The authors regularly chair sessions at conferences and have been members of various advisory boards and organising committees. They frequently review books, papers, dissertations, and grant applications for various countries and are both on theAdvisory Board of the Design Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: DRM, a Design Research Methodology
Authors: Lucienne T.M. Blessing, Amaresh Chakrabarti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-587-1
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84882-586-4Published: 30 June 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5774-8Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84882-587-1Published: 13 June 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 397
Topics: Engineering Design, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Industrial and Production Engineering, Control and Systems Theory