Frontier Design: A Product Usage Context Method
Frontier Design: A Product Usage Context Method
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前沿设计：产品使用情境方法
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2006
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Dan Jensen
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Matthew G. Green;J. Linsey;C. Seepersad;K. Wood;Dan Jensen
需要开发基础知识、方法和工具，使工程师能够发现、记录和处理对成功的产品设计非常重要的上下文信息。为了回应这一需求，本文解决了当前设计方法中的一个缺口，这些方法不足以支持对上下文信息的核算。当设计环境对设计师来说是前沿的(不熟悉的)时，充分考虑背景信息尤其具有挑战性，这通常是人类高度需要的项目的情况。基于分类框架、文献检索和实证研究，本文提出了一种情境需求评估方法，以帮助设计者发现和记录产品情境的“如何”、“在哪里”和“谁”因素。实验评估和发明产品设计方法的应用提供了对所提议的上下文需求评估方法的可用性、有用性和设计者接受度的定量和定性测量。此外，匿名调查报告称，与黑盒和活动图等成熟方法的基准相比，新方法对学生设计项目的感知价值相同或更高。这些令人振奋的结果为在教育和实地实践中广泛传播这一方法提供了强有力的理由。
The need exists to develop foundational knowledge, methods, and tools to equip engineers in discovering, documenting, and acting upon contextual information important for successful product design. In response to this need, this paper addresses a gap in current design methodologies which inadequately support accounting for contextual information. Adequately accounting for contextual information is especially challenging when the design context is frontier (unfamiliar) to the designers, as is often the case with high human-need projects. Based on a classification framework, literature search, and empirical study, a contextual needs assessment methodology is presented to assist the designer in discovering and documenting the “how,” “where,” and “who” factors of the product context. Experimental assessments and an application of the approach to an inventive product design provide both quantitative and qualitative measures of the usability, usefulness, and designer acceptance of the proposed contextual needs assessment method. Additionally, anonymous surveys report equal or greater perceived value of the new method for student design projects when compared with the benchmark of wellestablished methodologies such as black box and activity diagrams. These exciting results provide strong justification for the widespread dissemination of the methodology in education as well as in field practice.