LINKOGRAPHER: AN ANALYSIS TOOL TO STUDY DESIGN PROTOCOLS BASED ON FBS CODING SCHEME

DS 68-2: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 2: Design Theory and Research Methodology, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011

Year: 2011
Editor: Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Reich, Y.
Author: Pourmohamadi, Morteza; Gero, John S
Series: ICED
Section: Design Theory and Research Methodology
Page(s): 294-303

Abstract

This paper presents LINKOgrapher, a software tool that carries out analyses on coded design protocols. LINKOgrapher is implemented building on an ontologically-based coding scheme utilising the Function-Behaviour-Structure (FBS) ontology. It aims at enabling cross-comparisons of different protocol studies through utilising a re-usable coding scheme and standardizing the analysis methods. Current measurements include tabular statistics, dynamic modeling of design issues and design processes, Markov models, first passage models and entropy models. The calculation and visualization of the results on screen is near real-time, saving time and effort needed to analyse long design protocols. The results are exportable as graphic models as well as textual outputs. The measurement procedures and features of LINKOgrapher are discussed along with exemplary results.

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