Learning from Notes: organizational issues in groupware implementation
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Building problem solvers
The marks are on the knowledge worker
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designers and their tools: computer support for domain construction
Designers and their tools: computer support for domain construction
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A generic model for reflective design
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Co-opetition and knowledge transfer
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special issue on infomration systems: current issues and future changes
A methodological approach to supporting organizational learning
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Design Rationale: Concepts, Techniques, and Use
Design Rationale: Concepts, Techniques, and Use
The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information
Case-Based Reasoning in Design
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Creating Semantic Web Contents with Protégé-2000
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Acquiring design rationale automatically
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Naturally conveyed explanations of device behavior
Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on Perceptive user interfaces
Questions, options, and criteria: elements of design space analysis
Human-Computer Interaction
Physical concept ontology for the knowledge intensive engineering framework
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Deployment of an ontological framework of functional design knowledge
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Computer-Aided Design
Design of communication in multimodal web interfaces
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Towards a collaborative modeling and simulation platform on the Internet
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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Design involves the formulation of a solution, such as a product specification, from initial requirements. Design in industrial and other contexts often involves the building and use of models that allow the designer to test hypotheses and learn from possible design decisions prior to building the physical product. The building and testing of models is a design process in its own right. Previous work in knowledge management, design rationale and the psychology of design has demonstrated that designers often vary from prescriptive methodologies of the design process and have problems appropriately describing their design activity in order to support design collaboration and the reuse of design artefacts. Drawing on this work, we support design collaboration and reuse structured according to key transformational episodes in the design process and the design artefacts they produce. To support this, we characterise the design task as progressing through a series of worlds, each comprising its own concepts and vocabulary, and supported by its own design tools. The design process can then be described in terms of important transformations that are made from one world to the next. This allows a targeted approach to rationale capture integrated with work practice and associated with products of the design process. This approach has been successfully deployed and tested in two industrial engineering companies. Findings included improved collaboration in design teams, effective reuse and improved training for new members of the design team. This work has more general implications for the development of design rationale methods and tools to support the design process.