Designer conditioning by early representations

Henri Christiaans; John Dairo  Restrepo-Giraldo

Designer conditioning by early representations

Henri Christiaans, John Dairo Restrepo-Giraldo

Delft University of Technology

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. In this paper it is hypothesised that the designer’s initial mental representation of the design assignment has a strong conditioning effect on the design process including aspects like information processing and idea generation. An empirical study was conducted to test this hypothesis. 23 senior design students participated in the experiment. The data show indeed this conditioning effect. Designers follow their idiosyncratic strategy, not much influenced by external information. The question whether it is possible to make the designer’s tacit knowledge explicit through a way of verbal reports could be answered positively, although more research on the method used is necessary.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third international workshop on strategic knowledge and concept formation
Place of Publication	Sydney
Publisher	Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition
Publication date	2001
Pages	247-259
Publication status	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes
Event	Third International Workshop on Strategic Knowledge and Concept Formation - Sydney, Australia Duration: 17 Dec 2001 → 19 Dec 2001 Conference number: 3

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Workshop	Third International Workshop on Strategic Knowledge and Concept Formation
Number	3
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	17/12/2001 → 19/12/2001

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Christiaans, H & Restrepo-Giraldo, JD 2001, Designer conditioning by early representations. in Proceedings of the Third international workshop on strategic knowledge and concept formation. Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, Sydney, pp. 247-259, Third International Workshop on Strategic Knowledge and Concept Formation, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 17/12/2001.

Designer conditioning by early representations. / Christiaans, Henri; Restrepo-Giraldo, John Dairo .
Proceedings of the Third international workshop on strategic knowledge and concept formation. Sydney: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, 2001. p. 247-259.

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