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PUC
2000
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Patterns of Home Life: Informing Design For Domestic Environments
This paper considers how we may provide support for the development of general design principles in domestic environments. In particular we examine the potential for using design p...
John A. Hughes, Jon O'Brien, Tom Rodden, Mark Roun...
KBS
2000
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Hands-on representations in a two-dimensional space for early stages of design
In design, problem analysis is as important as solution synthesis. Strategic knowledge is required not only for constructing a solution but also for framing a problem. While exter...
Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Shingo Takada
JCAL
2000
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Gender preferences for multimedia interfaces
This study examined the gender differences in the preferences to varying designs of multimedia learning interfaces. In the study it was assumed that design characteristics add to t...
David Passig, Haya Levin
JASIS
2000
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Previews and overviews in digital libraries: Designing surrogates to support visual information seeking
To aid designers of digital library interfaces, we present a framework for the design of information representations in terms of previews and overviews. Previews and overviews are...
Stephan Greene, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisa...
INFSOF
2000
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Cognitive support, UML adherence, and XMI interchange in Argo/UML
Software design is a cognitively challenging task. Most software design tools provide support for editing, viewing, storing, and transforming designs, but lack support for the ess...
Jason E. Robbins, David F. Redmiles
IJMMS
2000
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Calculators are needlessly bad
In the two decades hand-held calculators have been readily available there has been ample time to develop a usable design and to educate the consumer public into choosing quality d...
Harold W. Thimbleby
EWC
2000
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A Model for the Flow of Design Information in Product Development
The complexity of modern products and design tools has made the exchange of design information more complex. It is widely recognised that the seamless capture, storage, and retriev...
Steven B. Shooter, Walid Keirouz, Simon Szykman, S...
EWC
2000
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Design Families and Design Individuals
: This paper discusses design families and design individuals. Phase space is introduced to complement state space. Phase transition as a generic method of generating design famili...
Xiao-Guang Shi, John S. Gero
EWC
2000
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Improving the Rationale Capture Capability of QFD
The goals of Design Rationale Capture (DRC) are improving design quality and reducing design time. These general goals have led to the design of many DRC techniques originating fro...
Yoram Reich
ETS
2000
IEEE
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DYNAMO: A Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line
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Ann Heylighen, Herman Neuckermans