Characterising the information requests of aerospace engineering designers
| Autor: | Ken M. Wallace, Marco Aurisicchio, Rob H. Bracewell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Computer science Information seeking Mechanical Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Domain (software engineering) Documentation Information engineering Architecture New product development Key (cryptography) Aerospace engineering Engineering design process business Civil and Structural Engineering Communication channel |
| Zdroj: | Research in Engineering Design. 24:43-63 |
| ISSN: | 1435-6066 0934-9839 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00163-012-0136-y |
| Popis: | During product development, engineering designers raise several information requests that make them search through human and documentary sources. This paper reports research to characterise, in detail, these requests for designers working in a major aerospace engineering company. The research found that at a high level, a distinction can be made between requests to acquire information and to process information. The former are raised to access design and domain information. The latter, instead, are formed to define designs. For researchers, this study extends existing knowledge of information requests by characterising key differences in their nature and explaining how they are used in the design process. For practitioners, these findings can be used as a basis to understand the diverseness of information requests and how to channel efforts to support designers in information seeking. In particular, the research indicates that a strategy to support designers should enable the development of engineering communities that share information effectively and the introduction of techniques that facilitate the documentation of information. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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