Tools for Wellbeing-Supportive Design: Features, Characteristics, and Prototypes

Hummels Gestural design tools : prototypes ! experiments and scenarios

Design Prototypes

This article commences with an elaboration of models of design as a process. It then introduces and describes a knowledge representation schema for design called design prototypes. This schema supports the initiation and continuation of the act of designing. Design prototypes are shown to provide a suitable framework to distinguish routine, innovative and creative design. DESIGN Although there ...

Reshaping Communication Design Tools Complex Systems Structural Features for Design Tools

During the last thirty years the level of interest in Complexity Science has been constantly increasing. Combining the opportunity offered by the findings of the Complexity Science with the framework of the multi-disciplinary debate on the meaning and use of diagrams, we propose a design methodology to help designers support their interventions in complex environments. The structural features a...

Reviewing clinical guideline development tools: features and characteristics

BACKGROUND To improve consistency and streamline development and publication of clinical guidelines (GL), there is a need for appropriate software support. We have found few specific tools for the actual authoring and maintaining of GLs, and correspondingly few analyses or reviews of GL development tool functionality. In order to assist GL developers in selecting and evaluating tools, this stud...

Pairwise Selection of Features and Prototypes

Learning from given patterns is realized by learning from their appropriate representations. This is usually practiced either by defining a set of features or by measuring proximities between pairs of objects. Both approaches are problem dependent and aim at the construction of some representation space, where discrimination functions can be defined. In most situations, some feature reduction o...