Modelling proportions and sequences of operations in team design activities
2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the Design Society, Cambridge University Press, 2021, Vol. 1:ICED21, p. 2187-2196Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The presented research aims at modelling and formalising the process of team design activity as an interplay between the evolution of design problems and solutions. The motivation founds primarily on a presumption that there exist regularities in designing which can be captured and formalised using the appropriate models. The study thus investigates whether the identified design operation proportions and sequence probabilities are consistent throughout the different parts of team conceptual design activities. It does so by exploring the utility of mathematical models built based on the correlations and statistically significant sequences underlying the previously identified designing patterns. The developed mathematical model was tested by replicating moving-average analyses of design operation proportions and sequences, which were originally observed in the protocol analysis study. A close fit was found between the simulated and the observed data, particularly in providing insights regarding operation patterns and proportion trends. The presented models and modelling methodology are potentially an appropriate means for the next steps in describing, and consequently predicting and supporting team design activity dynamics.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cambridge University Press, 2021. Vol. 1:ICED21, p. 2187-2196
Series
Proceedings of the Design Society, E-ISSN 2732-527X
Keywords [en]
Design operations, Design process, Process modelling, Process patterns, Teamwork
National Category
Other Engineering and Technologies
Research subject
Product Innovation
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-94910DOI: 10.1017/pds.2021.480Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85117768711OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-94910DiVA, id: diva2:1721029
Conference
23rd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED21), Gothenburg, Sweden, August 16-20, 2021
Note
Funder: Croatian Science Foundation (IP-2018-01-7269 TAIDE)
2022-12-202022-12-202025-02-10Bibliographically approved