Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - The evaluation of desperado
T2 - a computerised tool to aid design reuse
AU - Lambell, N J
AU - Ball, L J
AU - Ormerod, Thomas
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The reuse of previous design knowledge when tackling a current problem is a potentially important way to improve design efficiency. However, unguided reuse is fraught with problems. Our current goal is to try and limit the problems associated with reuse in engineering contexts by means of a computer-based support tool which guides the effective encoding of information for subsequent reuse. This paper presents an evaluation of such a tool that we have developed, which is known as Desperado. The evaluation involved observing academic designers working on a short design brief, either with or without Desperado. Our observational data are reported in conjunction with designers' subjective experiences of using Desperado. It was found that whilst the introduction of the system changed the nature of the users' design work, these changes were primarily associated with a better exploration and evaluation of possible design options.
AB - The reuse of previous design knowledge when tackling a current problem is a potentially important way to improve design efficiency. However, unguided reuse is fraught with problems. Our current goal is to try and limit the problems associated with reuse in engineering contexts by means of a computer-based support tool which guides the effective encoding of information for subsequent reuse. This paper presents an evaluation of such a tool that we have developed, which is known as Desperado. The evaluation involved observing academic designers working on a short design brief, either with or without Desperado. Our observational data are reported in conjunction with designers' subjective experiences of using Desperado. It was found that whilst the introduction of the system changed the nature of the users' design work, these changes were primarily associated with a better exploration and evaluation of possible design options.
KW - design representation
KW - design reuse
KW - design rationale
KW - design support
KW - minimal representation
KW - information retrieval
KW - information indexing
KW - usability issues
KW - SOFTWARE
KW - RATIONALE
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 1-85233-318-9
SP - 437
EP - 453
BT - PEOPLE AND COMPUTERS XIV - USABILITY OR ELSE!
A2 - McDonald, S
A2 - Waern, Y
A2 - Cockton, G
PB - Springer Verlag London Ltd
CY - Godalming
ER -