Presidential Young Investigator Award: Knowledge Engineering/Design Theory and Methodology

对计算机辅助设计（CAD）的需求非常迫切 帮助设计人员应用人因原理的方法 在产品设计的早期阶段。 实现这一 目标要求在确定（1）如何获得和 在计算机中有效地组织各种类型的 与设计问题相关的知识;（2）如何最好地应用 这些不同类型的知识在设计周期的早期， 计算机辅助方法 这项研究将在明年集中在 进一步发展建模方法，作为 计算机辅助设计 这将需要大量的综合 从安全工程领域的原则，人工 智能、决策分析和人为因素。 这 研究工作将是一个计算机知识结构， 组织和应用人因知识进行设计 问题

There is a critical need for computer aided design (CAD) methods for assisting designers to apply human factors principles during the early stages of product design. Attaining this objective requires progress in determining (1) how to obtain and efficiently organize within a computer the diverse types of knowledge relevant to design problems and; (2) how to best apply these diverse types of knowledge early in the design cycle using computer aided methods. This research will be concentrated over the next year on further development of a modeling approach as a foundation for computer aided design. This will require significant synthesis of principles from the fields of safety engineering, artificial intelligence, decision analysis, and human factors. This research effort will be a computer knowledge structure useful for organizing and applying human factors knowledge to design problems.