Can an objective measurement of design protocols reflect the quality of a design outcome?

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

Volumn DS 42, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kan, Jeff W T ^a   Gero, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

Design measurement; Design outcomes; Design protocols; Entropy

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; ENTROPY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INTERCONNECTIVITY; LINKOGRAPHY; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF DESIGN; RATE OF CHANGE; SHANNON'S ENTROPY; SIMILAR DESIGN; STUDY DESIGN;

ENTROPY;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862628125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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