To sketch or not to sketch? That is the question

Design Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 587-613

  Bilda, Zafer ^a   Gero, John S ^a   Purcell, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

architectural design; conceptual design; protocol analysis; sketching

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; EARLY PHASES; PROTOCOL ANALYSIS; SKETCHING;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33747176613     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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