Understanding the knowledge needs of designers during design process in industry

Vijaykumar, Gokula; Chakrabarti, Amaresh

Abstract

Product success is substantially influenced by satisfaction of knowledge needs of designers, and many tools and methods have been proposed to support these needs. However, adoption of these methods in industry is minimal. This may be due to an inadequate understanding of the knowledge needs of designers in industry. This research attempts to develop a better understanding of these needs by undertaking descriptive studies in an industry. We propose a taxonomy of knowledge, and evaluate this by analyzing the questions asked by the designers involved in the study during their interactions. Using the taxonomy, we converted the questions asked into a generic form. The generic questions provide an understanding about what knowledge must be captured during design, and what its structure should be.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Feb 28, 2008
• Publication Date: Feb 28, 2008
• Deposit Date: Apr 12, 2019
• Journal: Journal of computing and information science in engineering
• Print ISSN: 1530-9827
• Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 011004
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2840776
• Keywords: knowledge based systems, product design
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1393490