Negotiating Right Along: An Extended Case Study of the Social Activity of Engineering Design

Minnemann, Scott L.; Harrison, Steven R.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-1538-0_3

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“…This view is similar to that of authors that propose a more descriptive view of what happens out in the field (see Bucciarelli, 1988 andVinck et al, 2003). It is more a social process (see Minnemann & Harrison, 1998) than only a cognitive one (see Gero, 1990).…”

Section: Theories In Early Stages Of Designingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Support for the conceptual design stage of effective and resource-efficient offerings : A pragmatic and cross-disciplinary approach

Brambila

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Section: Theories In Early Stages Of Designingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Support for the conceptual design stage of effective and resource-efficient offerings : A pragmatic and cross-disciplinary approach

Brambila

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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“…However, we have found a lack of HCI and CSCW literature on how work actually gets done and how technology is used by collaborators in the multimedia publishing industry. This contrasts with many insightful accounts of other settings such as office work [25], engineering [22], software design [28], airport ground operations [27] and stock trading [15].…”

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confidence: 94%

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Bellotti

Rogers

1997

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The growth of multimedia computing, followed by a recent push towards publishing on the World Wide Web, is rapidly changing the publishing industry. Editorial staff, working under pressure in printed and online publications, need to use a growing diversity of representations for planning, creating and reviewing content. We present a study of a number of publishing sites, describing how such representations are critical to ensuring quality in the editorial process. Following this, we discuss design implications for better representational tools.

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“…Reporting an observational study of a team design process in industry, Minneman and Harrison (1998) devote two paragraphs to "ambiguity". These make important points about design conversation, but could mean very different things depending on the meaning of the term 'ambiguity' and on exactly which types of uncertainty are being talked about.…”

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Stacey

Eckert

2003

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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This paper argues that the widespread belief that ambiguity is beneficial in design communication stems from conceptual confusion. Communicating imprecise, uncertain and provisional ideas is a vital part of design teamwork, but what is uncertain and provisional needs to be expressed as clearly as possible. Understanding what uncertainty information designers can and should communicate, and how, is an urgent task for research. Viewing design communication as conveying permitted spaces for further designing is a useful rationalisation for understanding what designers need from their notations and computer tools, to achieve clear communication of uncertain ideas. The paper presents a typology of ways that designs can be uncertain. It discusses how sketches and other representations of designs can be both intrinsically ambiguous, and ambiguous or misleading by failing to convey information about uncertainty and provisionality, with reference to knitwear design, where communication using inadequate representations causes severe problems. It concludes that systematic use of meta-notations for conveying provisionality and uncertainty can reduce these problems.

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Negotiating Right Along: An Extended Case Study of the Social Activity of Engineering Design

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Support for the conceptual design stage of effective and resource-efficient offerings : A pragmatic and cross-disciplinary approach

Support for the conceptual design stage of effective and resource-efficient offerings : A pragmatic and cross-disciplinary approach

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Against Ambiguity

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