Software prototyping is considered to be one of the most important tools that are used by software engineers nowadays to be able to understand the customer’s requirements, and develop software products that are efficient, reliable, and acceptable economically. Software engineers can choose any of the available prototyping approaches to be used, based on the software that they intend to develop ...

The use of 3D computer-aided design (CAD) models to support construction project planning has been increasing in the previous year. 3D CAD models reveal more planning ideas by visually showing the construction site environment in different stages of the construction process. Using 3D CAD models together with scheduling software to prepare construction plan can identify errors in process sequenc...

There are many methods of rapidly prototyping a graphical user interface (GUI), the most prominent being paper prototyping and wireframe prototyping. In paper prototyping, the developer creates a physical GUI prototype using simple materials such as paper, pencils, and tabbed cards. Paper prototyping, while easy to implement, leads to unrealistic and awkward user interaction. Wireframe prototyp...

The use of tangible objects is paramount in industrial design. Throughout the design process physical prototypes are used to enable exploration, simulation, communication, and specification of designs. Although much is known about prototyping skills and technologies, the reasons why and how such models are employed in design practice are poorly understood. Advanced techniques and design media s...

This paper describes a major part of an architecting methodology developed for safety-critical fault-tolerant software systems. The methodology coverage centers on specificationdriven prototyping. This approach to prototyping is seen to be superior to the customary approaches of throwaway and evolutionary prototyping. A still developmental form of representation, higher-level statecharts, provi...

This paper introduces how geographically distributed virtual prototyping, a new Internet technology, can be designed to facilitate designer-customer communication in product development of small electronic devices, such as mobile telephones. The research approach to understand how cooperative work happens in conceptual design is discussed with an example of requirements focusing on communicatio...

This paper presents a case study of rapid prototyping for iterative prototype design and formative evaluation of computer interfaces for the development of applications for seniors. A combination of three different tools was used -paper sketches, MS-PowerPoint, and Macromedia Flash. Each tool was used for different phases and roles in the prototyping process. Macromedia Flash served as the main...

This paper discusses the development of virtual prototyping tools for fluid power systems to minimize the development time, cost and risk. The requirements for the deployment of virtual prototyping tools in terms of the communication of information from the perspectives of designers and manufacturers are presented. The importance of the Product Family Architecture (PFA) reflected by these requi...

Prototyping system RAM and its interactions with disk is attractive for several reasons. Memory hierarchies at this level are important to computing performance, slow relative to the processor, and difficult to model accurately. This talk details a search for a prototyping vehicle; it motivates prototyping, identifies some unfruitful paths, and explains the pros and cons of the chosen solution.

Prototyping is a critical method for exploring, communicating and testing new concepts in an interactive system development process. However, the criteria used in prototype model evaluation often do not address the original project objectives and issues. To improve this situation, a prototyping specification mechanism with aspect models and scenarios created through the aspect models are introd...