Reading Seminar

Representation in Design

Fall, 2003

Chuck Eastman

College of Architecture

Georgia Institute of Technology

What is a Representation?

What distinguishes a good representation?

How can one determine what is an appropriate representation for dealing with some problem?

Need to represent the problem

Reading:

Jungpil Hahn, Jinwoo Kim: Why are some representations (sometimes) more effective? in Prabuddha De, Janice I. DeGross (Eds.): Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Information Systems, December 13-15, 1999 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Association for Information Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA, 1999 pp: 245-259

Zenon Kulpa Diagrammatic Representation And Reasoning, Machine Graphics & Vision vol. 3, nos. 1/2, 1994, pp. 77-103

Reading on Natural Syntax of Diagrams:

Jill Larkin and Herbert Simon: Why a Diagram is (sometimes) worth a thousand words, Cognitive Science, 11:1, pp.65-100.

Peter Cheng Representational Analysis and Design: Law Encoding Diagrams

Martin Erwig, Semantics of Visual Languages13th IEEE Symp. on Visual Languages, Capri, 1997

Readings of Function, Structure Behavior:

Marton E. Balazs & David C. Brown (1994) The Use Of Function, Structure And Behavior In Design AI in Design (.pdf)

Edward Chang, Xin Li, Linda C. Schmidt (2000) The Need for a Form, Function, and Behavior-based Representation System, Design Assistance Tool Laboratory Research Report, U. Maryland. (.pdf)