Information for inspiration: Understanding architects' information seeking and use behaviors to inform design
Information for inspiration: Understanding architects' information seeking and use behaviors to inform design
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10.1002/asi.21338
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2010
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S. Makri;C. Warwick
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作者：
S. Makri;C. Warwick
建筑设计项目严重依赖于电子信息搜索。然而，很少有研究建筑师如何寻找和使用信息在Web上。我们调查了9名建筑设计和城市设计专业研究生的电子信息行为。我们观察到他们进行了一个自我选择的，自然的信息任务与他们的设计项目之一，并发现，虽然建筑专业的学生进行了许多类似的互动信息行为的学者和其他学科的从业者，他们也进行行为反映了他们的领域的性质。这些观察结果还强调了信息使用行为（如编辑和记录）和交流行为（如分享和分发）以及多媒体材料（特别是图像）对建筑设计项目的重要性。一个关键的总体主题是，灵感被认为是一个重要的驱动程序和潜在的结果，在建筑领域的信息工作，这表明有必要为建筑师设计电子信息工具，鼓励和促进创造力。我们根据我们的研究结果提出了设计这些工具的建议。
Architectural design projects are heavily reliant on electronic information seeking. However, there have been few studies on how architects look for and use information on the Web. We examined the electronic information behavior of 9 postgraduate architectural design and urban design students. We observed them undertake a selfchosen, naturalistic information task related to one of their design projects and found that although the architectural students performed many similar interactive information behaviors to academics and practitioners in other disciplines, they also performed behaviors reflective of the nature of their domain. The included exploring and encountering information (in addition to searching and browsing for it) and visualizing/appropriating information.The observations also highlighted the importance of information use behaviors (such as editing and recording) and communication behaviors (such as sharing and distributing) as well as the importance of multimedia materials, particularly images, for architectural design projects. A key overarching theme was that inspiration was found to be both an important driver for and potential outcome of information work in the architecture domain, suggesting the need to design electronic information tools for architects that encourage and foster creativity. We make suggestions for the design of such tools based on our findings.