Understanding how the information requests of aerospace engineering designers influence information-seeking behaviour

Autor: Ken M. Wallace, Rob H. Bracewell, Marco Aurisicchio
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Journal of Engineering Design. 21:707-730
ISSN: 1466-1837
0954-4828
DOI: 10.1080/09544820902877583
Popis: Engineering design activities rely heavily on the richness of knowledge and information available. In order to progress their tasks, designers undertake numerous searches to answer their information requests. A review of the literature on information seeking (IS) found that the role of the types of information request on source selection has been little investigated compared with that of the source itself, the seeker, the seeker–source relationship and the work context. This paper describes the empirical research that was carried out in collaboration with the aerospace group of a major power systems company to understand the relationship between information searches and information requests raised by designers involved in individual design tasks. The empirical part of the research consisted of participating in a design activity undertaken within the collaborating company and in conducting analytical studies with its designers. Two large data sets were gathered using a diary study and observations with sha...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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