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Abstract | ||
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This exploratory study investigates design expertise through the lens of Robust Design. Robust Design is typically applied to manufacturing processes. Robust Design has the objective of minimizing the effects of uncontrollable noise factors on the output of the process or product. Designers achieve robustness through the control of design variables. A coding scheme was developed from the conceptual framework of Robust Design, particularly investigating designers' awareness of noise factors and design variables. The dataset includes video and transcripts of working engineers in two conceptual design meetings. Protocol Analysis was employed on the transcripts of both meetings. The Dreyfus model of expertise was applied to the observed behaviors. The designers displayed "competent designer" behavior in these meetings by identifying noise factors first and complementary design variables; this may be due to the moderator's problem framing to focus on a noise factor. The result of problem framing and subsequent design activity can inform the development of undergraduate classroom interventions. Educational implications include 1) that instructors can advance students' design expertise by enhancing awareness of noise factors' and design variables' effects on the output and 2) that Robust Design can also be applied to cognitive design processes. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2015 | 10.1109/FIE.2015.7344192 | FIE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
robust design,expertise,protocol analysis | Conceptual design,Probabilistic design,Design brief,Protocol analysis,Design technology,Knowledge management,Robustness (computer science),Dreyfus model of skill acquisition,Engineering,Conceptual framework | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
0190-5848 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonette T. Cummings | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| ali shafaat | 2 | 1 | 2.32 |
| William C. Oakes | 3 | 6 | 6.83 |