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Supporting Early Design Through Conjoint Trends Analysis Methods and the TRENDS System

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This paper introduces methods and tool support to enrich the early design activity, especially in what we call the informational phase, where inspiration sources are of crucial importance. The Conjoint Trends Analysis method is put forward as a way to structure and operationalize the informational phase of early design; a model of the design process underpinning the method is introduced and guidelines are provided for its application in an industrial context. Based upon studies of designer’s activity during early design formal models of this process have been created that have been used for a partial digitalization of the informational phase of design in the TRENDS system.

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    The tool has been developed by a European project called TRENDS (Trends Research ENabler for Design Specifications). This project has been a collaboration between several scientific or industrial partners : INRIA Rocquencourt, PERTIMM, CARDIFF University, LEEDS University and ROBOTIKER. The end users were FIAT RESEARCH and STILE BERTONE.

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We thank TRENDS consortium partners for their contribution to this work (see at www.trendsproject.org FIAT RESEARCH, STILE BERTONE, PERTIMM, INRIA, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS) as well as the European Commission for supporting the project.

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Bouchard, C., Omhover, JF. (2016). Supporting Early Design Through Conjoint Trends Analysis Methods and the TRENDS System. In: Markopoulos, P., Martens, JB., Malins, J., Coninx, K., Liapis, A. (eds) Collaboration in Creative Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29155-0_4

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