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

迫切需要计算机辅助设计(CAD)方法来帮助设计者在产品设计的早期阶段应用人的因素原则。实现这一目标需要在以下方面取得进展：(1)如何在计算机中获得并有效地组织与设计问题有关的各种类型的知识；(2)如何在设计周期的早期使用计算机辅助方法最好地应用这些不同类型的知识。这项研究将在明年集中在进一步开发一种建模方法，作为计算机辅助设计的基础。这将需要对安全工程、人工智能、决策分析和人为因素等领域的原则进行大量综合。这项研究工作将是一种计算机知识结构，有助于组织和应用人的因素知识来设计问题。

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.