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The issue of requirements of eco-design tools appears regularly in eco-design literature. Helping actors from design teams to structure their practice of eco-design is indeed a key topic in engineering design. So far authors have high-lighted various aspects of these context-related requirements. Our approach, based on actual utilization of existing tools, raises the following question: what is a good eco-design tool? How can it be characterized? Our original contribution is firstly to cluster requirements in two structured categories taking into account process and results on the one hand, cognitive and social aspects of eco-design practice on the other hand. Requirements are tested with experts in academia on four eco-design tools. In order to analyse how requirements match different tools, a specific framework is also created. Objective evaluation by the researcher is combined with subjective perception of experts. First conclusions about assessment of creative outcomes, usability of tools and confidence in results are presented.
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The authors would like to thank participants on the 4th seminar on Design and EcoDesign gathered in Paris in March 2009.
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Vallet, F., Eynard, B., Millet, D. (2011). Requirements and Features Clarifying for Eco-Design Tools. In: Bernard, A. (eds) Global Product Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15973-2_13
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