An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design: Philosophy, Approaches and Empirical Explorations [Hardcover]

While investigations into both theories and models has remained a major strand of engineering design research, current literature sorely lacks a reference book that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of theories and models, and their philosophical and empirical underpinnings; An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design fills this gap.

The text collects the expert views of an international authorship, covering:

????????? significant theories in engineering design, including CK theory, domain theory, and the theory of technical systems;

????????? current models of design, from a function behavior structure model to an integrated model;

????????? important empirical research findings from studies into design; and

????????? philosophical underpinnings of design itself.

For educators and researchers in engineering design, An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design gives access to in-depth coverage of theoretical and empirical developments in this area; for practitioners, the book will provide exposure to theoretical and empirical foundations to methods and tools that are currently practiced as well as those in the process of development.

Theories and Models of Design: A Summary of Findings.- Design Theories, Models and Their Testing On the Scientific Status of Design Research.- A Structure for Design Theory.- Motive of Design: Roles of Pre- and Post-Design in Highly Advanced Products.- What the Design Theory of Social Cyberphysical Systems must Describe, Explain and Predict.- Models of Design.- Perceiving design as modelling: A cybernetic systems perspective.- The Contact and Channel Approach (C&C?-A): Relating a Systems Physical Structure to its Functionality.- Domain Theory, its Models and Concepts.- Engineering Design: Role of Theory, Models, and Methods.- 10 Years of lƒv