Representational affordances in design, with examples from analogy making and optimization

Research in Engineering Design

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-249

  Gero, John S ^a,b   Kannengiesser, Udo ^c  

^a Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affordances; Analogy; Design theory; FBS; Optimization; Representation

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; ANALOGY; DESIGN THEORY; FBS; REPRESENTATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84865600834     PISSN: 09349839     EISSN: 14356066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00163-012-0128-y     Document Type: Article

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