Paper Info
Title
Design as interaction with computer based materials
Abstract
Professional practice of designers as traditionally por- trayed in academic text books and scientific papers only remotely resembles the concrete phenomenolog of real life activities. Design is not primarily governed by in- strumental rationality, scientific theory, and techniques applied to specific problems defined at the outset. Rather than that - as ilhwtmted in this paper by a case study of protocol designers - the professional practice of design is a reflective interaction with computer based materials. The practice of the protocol engineer is very similar to the practices of other prof=ionals, but the anaIysis also reveals some characteristics specific to the particular de- sign case. When the protocol engineer was experimenting with a specific aspect of his design at different stages in the design process, he was careful not to manipulate the model in a way that would violate other aspects of the model currently not in his fbcus. Some moves intended to solve one problem produced unintended effectsleading to new problems to solve. The design formalism and the design tool 1) made it ease work with different and coher- ent design representations in the same computerized me- di~ 2) provided the opportunity to study the behavior of the model at a slower speed than in the built world, 3) made it easy to set up a large number of experiments, 4) and to create and explore aspects of the model which would be extremely expensive to explore in the built world. Keyworde
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1145/263552.263578
Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
coloured petri nets,protocol design,design practice,instrumental rationality,design process
Computer science,Process architecture,Human–computer interaction,Protocol design
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89791-863-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Søren Christensen100.34
Jens Bæk Jørgensen216119.31
Kim Halskov Madsen328768.88