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The cognitive artifacts of designing . /

"In this dynamic review and synthesis of empirical research and theoretical discussion of design as cognitive activity, Willemien Visser reconciles and integrates the classical view of design, as conceptualized by Herbert Simon's symbolic information processing approach, with modern views...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Visser, Willemien (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part PART I: INTRODUCTION
  • chapter 1 Focus of This Book
  • chapter 2 Public Addressed
  • chapter 3 Some Historical Pointers
  • chapter 4 Preliminary Terminological Issues
  • chapter 5 Models of Design
  • chapter 6 Our Empirical Design Studies at a Glance
  • part PART II: THE CLASSICAL VIEW ON DESIGN. THE SYMBOLIC INFORMATION PROCESSING (SIP) APPROACH
  • chapter 7 Herbert A. Simon
  • chapter 8 Simon's Framework for Design:The Sciences of the Artificial
  • chapter 9 Discussion of the Symbolic Information Processing Approach to Design
  • part PART III: MODERN VIEWS ON DESIGN. THE SITUATIVITY (SIT) APPROACH
  • chapter 10 Situativity and Other Alternatives to the SIP Approach
  • chapter 11 Early SIT-Inspired Research
  • chapter 12 Current SIT-Inspired Research
  • chapter 13 Discussion of the Situativity Approach to Design
  • part PART IV: CONFRONTING CLASSICAL AND MODERN VIEWS ON DESIGN
  • chapter 14 Symbolic Information Processing Versus Situativity Debates in the Literature
  • chapter 15 Confrontation of the SIP and SIT Approaches
  • part PART V: DESIGN AS CONSTRUCTION OF REPRESENTATIONS
  • chapter 16 Definition of Design
  • chapter 17 Representations
  • chapter 18 Representations at the Source of a Design Project: Requirements and
  • chapter 19 Intermediate Representations
  • chapter 20 Representations at the End of a Design Project: Specifications and
  • chapter 21 Designing as an Activity: Construction of Representations
  • chapter 22 Discussion
  • chapter 22 2. Linking Representational Structures and Activities
  • part PART VI: CONCLUSION
  • chapter 23 SIP and SIT, Individual and Collective Design
  • chapter 24 Design Involves More Than Problem Solving
  • chapter 25 Construction of Representations: Conclusion and Framework for Further Research.