TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a formalization of affordance modeling in the early stages of design
AU - Cormier, Phillip
AU - Olewnik, Andrew
AU - Lewis, Kemper
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - When developing an artifact, designers must first capture and represent consumer needs. These needs can then be transformed into system requirements or objectives. This paper proposes a formalized affordance-based method for capturing consumer needs which leverages previous work in the area of Affordance-based design. The creation of an affordance basis and a relational structure (the Desired Affordance Model) facilitates the use of affordances to represent consumer needs. This formalization has the potential to improve model quality and consistency, while managing model creation time. Further, this formalization imposes a level of abstraction which forces solution independence but is capable of capturing the large range of consumer needs.
AB - When developing an artifact, designers must first capture and represent consumer needs. These needs can then be transformed into system requirements or objectives. This paper proposes a formalized affordance-based method for capturing consumer needs which leverages previous work in the area of Affordance-based design. The creation of an affordance basis and a relational structure (the Desired Affordance Model) facilitates the use of affordances to represent consumer needs. This formalization has the potential to improve model quality and consistency, while managing model creation time. Further, this formalization imposes a level of abstraction which forces solution independence but is capable of capturing the large range of consumer needs.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84896997038
U2 - 10.1115/DETC2013-13170
DO - 10.1115/DETC2013-13170
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896997038
SN - 9780791855928
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 25th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology; ASME 2013 Power Transmission and Gearing Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2013
Y2 - 4 August 2013 through 7 August 2013
ER -