Can entropy indicate the richness of idea generation in team designing?

CAADRIA 2005 - The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Digital Opportunities

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 451-457

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGNING PROCESS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; IDEA GENERATION; LINKOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SHANNON'S INFORMATION THEORY;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84875250240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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