Understanding the context of multidisciplinary: establishing ecological validity in the study of design problem solving

Michael D. McNeese, Brian S. Zaff, Clifford E. Brown, Maryalice Citera

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Abstract

The need to understand the design process in all its complexity is motivated by an interest in the development of tools and technologies that would be capable of aiding collaborative design teams. In order to supplement observational studies, this paper presents a case study in which a dialog with members of a variety of collaborative design teams was established in order to elicit information about the nature of collaborative design. A knowledge acquisition technique, concept mapping, was used to achieve an understanding of the role of human factors specialists within the collaborative design process specific to the Air Force's system acquisition program.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1082-1086
Number of pages5
JournalProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Volume2
StatePublished - 1993
EventProceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society - Seattle, WA, USA
Duration: Oct 11 1993Oct 15 1993

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics

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