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If You Build It, Will They Understand? Considerations for Creating Shared Understanding Through Design Artifacts.
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Journal of Mechanical Design . Mar2024, Vol. 146 Issue 3, p1-12. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Design representations play a pivotal role in the design process. In particular, design representations enable the formation of a shared understanding between team members, enhancing team performance. This paper explores the relationship between design representation modality (low-fidelity prototypes and sketches) and shared understanding among designers during communicative acts between design dyads. A mixed-methods study with 44 participants was conducted to investigate if representation modality affects shared understanding and identifies the factors that shape shared understanding during communication. Quantitative results suggest that low-fidelity prototypes and sketches did not significantly differ in terms of the shared understanding they facilitated within dyads. Qualitative analysis identified four factors at the representation- and actor-level that influence how shared understanding is built between individuals during design communication. This research extends our understanding of the utility of design representations given the needs of communicative contexts; specifically, this work demonstrates that designers must understand the perspectives of listeners during communication to create representations that accurately represent the information that a listener seeks to gain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CONCEPTUAL design
*DESIGN
*DYADS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10500472
- Volume :
- 146
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Mechanical Design
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176133543
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064239