The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
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Toward a science of design for software-intensive systems
SoD '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Science of Design
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Involving computing science faculty in interdisciplinary research and creative activities is often viewed as a challenging exercise. This paper presents an assessment of an interdisciplinary experience to initiate education and research activities related to the Science of Design (SoD) that involved faculty from a wide range of disciplines including computing science. This effort, supported by the National Science Foundation, contributed to build a SoD course that was designed to be taught to primarily CS students as well as students from other disciplines. The assessment of this interdisciplinary experience analyzes diverse items including the perceptions of the feasibility of a multidisciplinary collaboration, elements of the collaboration that are more or less valuable, the benefits to the faculty participants and the perceptions of inclusiveness of the process. There is enough evidence to support the assertion that involving computing faculty in interdisciplinary research and creative activities could be a successful and enriching experience and should be practiced more often.