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Knowledge-intensive CAD must support knowledge building in design environments. Since knowledge sharing is a central activity in the collaborative design process, much of the design knowledge is embedded in the design discourse. For this reason, systematic capture of the design discourse may provide a practical means for knowledge building. This paper presents a case study of a design project and analyzes the discourse to illustrate this point. Our purpose is also to understand characteristics of the discourse in order to support its capture as well as to support knowledge building. The case study is a project that was undertaken by a geographically distributed team, involved a non-routine design problem, and employed several computer tools for team collaboration as well as for specific design tasks. In this paper, we present several quantitative measures for the different types of design information, the use of tools and media, and the role of different types of knowledge in the design process. We interpret these measures in the context of the design project to begin to answer the questions: how could knowledge-intensive CAD have aided in the design process and how can we support building and reuse of knowledge in such collaborative design projects?
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Reddy, J.M., Chan, B., Finger, S. (1996). Patterns in design discourse: A case study. In: Tomiyama, T., Mäntylä, M., Finger, S. (eds) Knowledge Intensive CAD. KIC 1995. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34930-5_17
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