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Yes, and by the way … thoughts on “Whither design space?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2006

ULRICH FLEMMING
ULRICH FLEMMING
Affiliation:
School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Abstract

Having no fundamental difficulties with Woodbury and Burrow's article, I explore some implications of their work based on my experience, and that of PhD students advised by me, with developing design support systems. I suggest that such systems need a distinct task layer on top of the computational layer, where the power of a system rests. I also express unease with some details of the article under review, in the hope of contributing to a wider discussion.

Keywords

Design SpaceDesign Support SystemKnowledge LevelTask Environment
Type
RESPONSE TO KEYNOTE
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , May 2006 , pp. 89 - 94
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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