Roles of function and affordance in the evolution of artifacts

Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 42, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gaffney, Edwin Sean ^a   Maier, Jonathan R A ^a   Fadel, Georges M ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordance based design; Function based design

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; FINAL STATE; FUNCTION-BASED APPROACH; FUNCTION-BASED DESIGN; HIGH-LEVEL APPROACH; QUALITY OF PRODUCT; THEORY OF INVENTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING;

PROBLEM SOLVING; VACUUM CLEANERS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862604287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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