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A typology of design space explorers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2006

ROBERT F. WOODBURY  and
ANDREW L. BURROW
ROBERT F. WOODBURY
Affiliation:
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
ANDREW L. BURROW
Affiliation:
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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Abstract

The act of design is a complex of actions and abilities that is evolving and often highly individual. Given the context of human–computer interaction, and a commitment to the model of design space exploration, we identify two axes that help position efforts to realize this model: the spectrum of strengths and needs that stretches from the machine to the human, and the time scale of events in design. Considering a section of each reveals a landscape that prefers certain activities and gives rise to particular emphases. This paper places the other authors in this Special Issue upon this map, and argues the value of typed feature structures and information orderings to the endeavor of realizing design space explorers.

Keywords

Design Space ExplorationHuman–Computer InterfaceKnowledge RepresentationTyped Feature Structures
Type
AUTHORS' RESPONSE
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , May 2006 , pp. 143 - 153
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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