A computational model of design critiquing

摘要

One of promises of computer-based critiquing systems is that they will help designers improve their solutions in an intelligent manner. Historically, they have tended to concentrate on the representation of the domain, the representation of the user’s knowledge, and a wide variety of communication skills. Nevertheless, the issue of the critiquing competence of the critiquing systems is important; today’s critiquing systems have the limited range and adaptability as compared to the wealth of critiquing strategies employed by human design teachers. Therefore, this paper presents a computer-based critiquing system named the Furniture Design Critic as a computational model of design critiquing based on a systematic understanding of design critiquing practice. This system has the potential to help us implement and formulate a wide range of human critiquing strategies, specifically determining which critiquing methods are selected under which critiquing conditions.