Impact of Metamodel-Driven Visualization on Design

这笔资金用于检查高速、分布式图形设计环境对设计优化期间决策过程的效率、效果和满意度的影响。这些图形化设计环境将使用元模型(更复杂模型的简化模型)来实现，以提高可视化设计界面的速度。将使用元模型驱动的图形设计环境来研究响应延迟、设计的图形表示的可用性及其性能对设计时间、设计质量和设计过程的影响。研究生和本科课程的学生将在三个例子的背景下帮助评估图形设计环境的各个方面：用于微创手术工具的双晶片致动器的设计，台灯的设计，以及使用拓扑优化的结构设计。台灯的例子还包括与法国巴黎中央大学的研究人员合作，检查图形设计环境对分布式设计优化的有效性。如果成功，这项研究的结果将有助于指导未来图形设计环境的开发，以提高设计优化。拟议的研究将提供客观和实质性的证据，说明当前图形用户界面的各个组成部分的正面和负面影响，从而改善图形设计环境。对设计性能的快速反馈与设计及其性能的图形表示相结合，将有助于设计者更好地理解设计与其性能之间的关系，使设计师更有见识，从而成为更好的决策者。此外，通过将建议的研究整合到几门研究生和本科课程中，学生将得到更好的教育，使他们能够在分布式设计环境中工作。

This grant provides funding to examine the impact of high speed, distributed graphical design environments on the efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction of the decision-making process during design optimization. These graphical design environments will be implemented using metamodels (simplified models of more complex models) to enhance the speed of the visual design interfaces. The effect of response delay and the availability of a graphical representation of a design and its performance on design time, design quality, and the design process will be examined using metamodel-driven graphical design environments. Students in both graduate and undergraduate courses will help assess various aspects of the graphical design environments within the context of three examples: the design of a bimorph actuator for minimally invasive surgical tools, the design of a desk lamp, and structural design using topology optimization. The desk lamp example will also involve collaboration with researchers from Ecole Centrale Paris in France to examine the effectiveness of graphical design environments for distributed design optimization.If successful, the results of this research will help guide the development of future graphical design environments to improve design optimization. The proposed research will provide objective and substantive evidence of the impact, both positive and negative, of various components of current graphical user interfaces, leading to improved graphical design environments. The rapid feedback on design performance combined with graphical representations of a design and its performance will help designers improve their understanding of the relationship between a design and its performance, making designers more knowledgeable and, therefore, better decision-makers. Furthermore, by integrating the proposed research within several graduate and undergraduate courses, students will be better educated to work in a distributed design environment.