Preface

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REPRESENTATION IN DESIGN

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Representing style by feature space archives
Sean Hanna

3

A digital bridge for performance-centred design
Dirk Schwede

23

Building connectivity models in design: Representations and tools to support cognitive preferences
René Keller, Claudia Eckert and P John Clarkson

41

Geometric, cognitive and behavioural modelling of environmental users: Integrating an agent-based model and a statistical model into a user model
Wei Yan and Yehuda Kalay

61

EARLY STAGES OF DESIGN

81

Exploration through drawings in the conceptual stage of product design
Miquel Prats and Chris F Earl

83

Digital sketching in a multi-actor environment
Alexander Koutamanis

103

The Designosaur and the furniture factory
Yeonjoo Oh, Gabe Johnson, Mark Gross and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

123

Industrial mechanical design: the “ids” case study
Stefania Bandini and Fabio Sartori

141

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES

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System development methodologies: A knowledge perspective
Warren Kerley and Tony Holden

163

Analogical matching using device-centric and environment-centric representations of function
Greg Milette and David Brown

183

Design operators to support organisational design
Catholijn Jonker, Alexei Sharpanskykh, Jan Treur and Pinar Yolum

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Bayesian design networks
Peter Matthews

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A comparative study of problem framing in multiple scenarios
Thomas Kvan and Song Gao

245

Comparing entropy measure of idea links in design protocols
Jeff Kan, Zafer Bilda and John S Gero

265

Analysing and presentation of graphical emotive implications in conceptual design
Raji Tenneti and Alex Duffy

285

Impact of collaborative virtual environments on design behaviour
Mary Lou Maher, Zafer Bilda and Figen Gül

305

DESIGN THINKING

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The modes of design engineering thinking
Pertti Saariluoma, Kalevi Nevala and Mikko Karvinen

325

Buildings and affordances
Alexander Koutamanis

345

The role of preconceptions in design: Some implications for the development of computational design tools
Patrick Janssen

365

How am I doing? The language of appraisal in design
Andy Dong

385

FORMAL METHODS IN DESIGN

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A function-behaviour-structure ontology of processes
John S Gero and Udo Kannengiesser

407

From form to function: From SBF to DSSBF
Patrick Yaner and Ashok Goel

423

Formal description of concept-synthesizing process for creative design
Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura

443

Robustness in conceptual designing: Formal criteria
Kenneth Shelton and Tomasz Arciszewski

461

GRAMMARS IN DESIGN

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An urban grammar for the Medina of Marrakesh
José Duarte, Gonçalo Ducla-Soares, Luisa Caldas and Joao Rocha

483

CAD Grammars: An extension to shape and graph grammars
Peter Deak, Glenn Rowe and Chris Reed

503

Applying evolutionary algorithm and shape grammar to generate branded produce design to meet functional requirement
Mei Choo Ang, Hau Hing Chau, Alison McKay and Alan de Pennington

521

A semantic validation scheme for graph-based engineering design grammars
Stephan Rudolph

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LEARNING IN DESIGN

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Inductive machine learning of structures
Sean Hanna and Siavash Haroun Mahdavi

563

Learning from 'superstar' designers
Paul Rodgers

583

The improvement of design solutions by means of a question-answering technique
Constance Winkelmann and Winfried Hacker

603

Contextual cueing and verbal stimuli in design idea generation
Lassi Liikkanen and Matti Perttula

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DESIGN COLLABORATION

633

Communicating, integrating and optimising multidisciplinary design narratives
John Haymaker

635

Enhanced design checking involving constraints, collaboration, and assumptions
Janet Burge, Valerie Cross, James Kiper, Pedrito Maynard-Zhang and Stephan Cornford

655

Collaborative virtual environments on design behaviour engineer at sketch time
Rodrigo Mora, Roland Juchmes, Hugues Rivard and Pierre Leclercq

675

DesignWorld: A multidisciplinary collaborative design environment using agents
Michael Rosenman, Kathryn Merrick, Mary Lou Maher and David Marchant

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