Abstract
Construction informatics is a rather new topic in civil engineering and as such its rules of scientific investigation are not as mature as with topics with a longer tradition. The paper argues that construction informatics has elements in common with both natural sciences, mathematics, technology as well as humanities and therefore a broad scope of methodological apparatus is available, including that of humanities. Some current methods are criticized and action research and Socratic methods suggested as an alternative.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
OECD, Frascati Manual, OECD Publication Services (2002)
Blaikie, N.: Approaches to Social Enquiry. Polity Press, Cambridge (1993)
Schutz, A.: Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action. The Problem of Social Reality, vol. 1. Martinus Hijhoff, The Hague (1962) (Collected Papers)
Petroski, H.: Design Paradigms. Cambridge University Press, UK (1994)
Dye, J.: Socratic Method and Scientific Method (1996), http://www.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Dye/method.html
Gielingh, W.: General AEC reference model (GARM). In: Christiansson, P., Karlsson, H. (eds.) Conceptual modelling of buildings. CIB W74+W78 seminar. CIB proceedings, Lund university and the Swedish building centre, October 1988, p. 126 (1988), http://itc.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?w78-1988-165
de Kleer, J., Brown, J.S.: Assumptions and Ambiguities in Mechanistic Mental Models. In: Gentner, D., Stevens, A.L. (eds.) Mental Models, pp. 155–190. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey (1983)
Henson, B., Juster, N., de Pennington, A.: Towards an Integrated Representation of Function, Behavior and Form. In: Sharpe, J., Oh, V. (eds.) Computer Aided Conceptual Design, Proceedings of the 1994 Lancaster International Workshop on Engineering Design, Lancaster University EDC, pp. 95–111 (1994)
Qian, L., Gero, J.S.: Function-Behavior-Structure Paths and Their Role in Analogy-Based Design. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing 10(4), 289–312 (1996)
Avison, D., Lau, F., Myers, M., Nielsen, P.A.: Action research. Communications of the ACM 42(1) (1999)
Popper, K.: The logic of scientific discovery, Routledge Classics (2002) (first published in German in 1935)
Susman, G.I., Evered, R.D.: An Assessment of the Scientific Merits of Action Research. Administrative Science Quarterly 23(4), 582–603 (1978)
Feyerabend, P.: Against Method Verso, London (1978)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Turk, Ž. (2006). Methodologies for Construction Informatics Research. In: Smith, I.F.C. (eds) Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture. EG-ICE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4200. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11888598_59
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11888598_59
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-46246-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-46247-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)