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Keeping Traces of Design Meetings through Intermediary Objects
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Emine Serap Arıkoğlu, Eric Blanco, Franck Pourroy
Compendium16 is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas. This tool is intended to “break down the boundaries between dialogue, artefact, knowledge and data”. Compendium extends the use of IBIS from modelling a discussion, to a more systematic modelling of a problem, ideas, questions and arguments are expressed as icons (forming nodes). They can be connected to other IDEAS via links to form maps, networks of linked nodes where the nodes can be placed anywhere in a 2D space17,18.
Identifying and addressing challenges in the engineering design of modular systems – case studies in the manufacturing industry
Published in Journal of Engineering Design, 2019
Jarkko Pakkanen, Tero Juuti, Timo Lehtonen
Aspects of design knowledge management are also important when discussing product variety management. Knowledge capturing, indexing, and retrieval can be considered part of the design process, and research on this topic has explored design rationale and support systems. Information systems should help designers store, represent, search, and use reusable knowledge (Sivaloganathan and Shahin 1999). Derivatives of issue-based information systems (IBIS) (Kunz and Rittel 1970) are probably the most popular solution in this context. Bracewell and Wallace (2003) and Bracewell et al. (2009a) presented two generations of design rationale editor (DRED) tools for formally capturing and communicating issues that have been addressed, options being considered, and arguments for and against each option. In addition to factors inhibiting design reuse, Bracewell et al. (2009) noted that design rationale capture tools have great potential, but must fit naturally with designers’ working methods and consider the challenges inherent in large and complex projects to ensure clarity. Other tools, such as Compendium, support the building of shared understanding and structured knowledge (Conklin et al. 2001). Leake and Wilson (2001) discussed the role of concept maps in capturing reusable knowledge to support case-based reasoning. Ontologies, or collections of knowledge that include structured conceptualisations defining specific pieces of knowledge (Chandrasekaran, Josephson, and Richard Benjamins 1999), have also been discussed as ways of representing components and parts to support the reuse of product information (Moon, Simpson, and Kumara 2010).