An experimental study on the effects of a computational design tool on concept generation

Design Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 676-703

  Kurtoglu, Tolga ^a   Campbell, Matthew I ^a   Linsey, Julie S ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual design; creative design; design knowledge; graph grammars

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TOOLS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONCEPT GENERATION; CREATIVE DESIGN; DESIGN KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN LIBRARY; DESIGN PROBLEMS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION; GRAPH GRAMMARS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; GRAPH THEORY;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 70350054617     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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