EAGER: TheDesignExchange: Characterizing, Mapping and Interacting with Industry on User-Focused Design Methods

EAGER：TheDesignExchange：以用户为中心的设计方法表征、映射和与行业互动

• 批准号: 1242232
• 负责人: Alice Agogino
• 金额: $ 7.35万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1242232&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; TheDesignExchange; Characterizing; Mapping; Interacting

The research objective of this EArly-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER)award is to explore, characterize, and map the use of user-centric design methods and tools. TheDesignExchange will provide a mechanism for investigators to answer questions pertaining to the motivation for the choice of and use of a particular design method for a design problem. TheDesignExchange will offer a centralized venue where human-centered design methods will be shared, discussed and disseminated, so that the research community can then engage in research to provide explanations as to how the various methods within the design process relate to each other. TheDesignExchange will increase researchers' understanding of structured design processes, and will also be an invaluable resource to train novice and professional engineers and designers.If successful, the outcomes of this award will result in an interactive web portal to facilitate the capture, analysis and widespread use of human-centered design methods, together with the insights as to how these methods will be best used for maximum success of the design venture. TheDesignExchange will be powered by a multidisciplinary community contributed database, which will allow practitioners and researchers to more deeply understand the use of design methods in practice and will facilitate the exchange of information between industry and academia. A workshop will be held in conjunction with this work at the 2012 NSF CMMI Grantees Conference. The outcomes of this workshop will form the basis of the research agenda for TheDesignExchange platform, including hypotheses for an ontology that maps human-centered design methods to real-world design problems, which will be made available to both industry and the research community.

这个早期概念探索性研究(EIGER)奖的研究目标是探索、描述和描绘以用户为中心的设计方法和工具的使用。设计交流将为调查人员提供一种机制，以回答与选择和使用特定设计方法解决设计问题的动机有关的问题。设计交流将提供一个集中的场所，在这里将分享、讨论和传播以人为中心的设计方法，这样研究界就可以进行研究，就设计过程中的各种方法之间的相互关系提供解释。设计交流将增加研究人员对结构化设计过程的了解，也将是培训新手和专业工程师和设计师的宝贵资源。如果成功，该奖项的结果将导致一个互动的门户网站，以促进以人为中心的设计方法的获取、分析和广泛使用，以及如何最好地使用这些方法来最大限度地取得设计企业的成功。设计交流将由多学科社区贡献的数据库提供支持，这将使从业者和研究人员更深入地了解设计方法在实践中的使用，并将促进产业界和学术界之间的信息交流。将在2012年国家科学基金会CMMI受赠者大会上结合这项工作举办一次研讨会。本次研讨会的成果将成为TheDesignExchange平台研究议程的基础，包括将以人为中心的设计方法映射到现实世界设计问题的本体论的假设，这将向业界和研究界提供。