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Aurisicchio M, Bracewell R, Armstrong G, 2013, Supporting communication in the supply chain with design rationale maps, 19th International Conference on Engineering Design
Dai W, Aurisicchio M, 2013, An empirical investigation of requirement evolution in an industrial project, 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED13)
Hall A, Rodgers P, Winton E, et al., 2013, Are we all designers?, Engineering & Product Design Education
Baroni P, Romano M, Toni F, et al., 2013, An Argumentation-Based Approach for Automatic Evaluation of Design Debates, CLIMA XIV, Publisher: Springer, Heidelberg, Pages: 340-356
Aurisicchio M, Bracewell RH, 2013, Capturing an integrated design information space with a diagram based approach, Journal of Engineering Design, Vol: 24, Pages: 397-428
The Decision Rationale editor (DRed), an issue-based information system derivative, originally developed to support the capture of design rationale has progressively evolved into a tool to map an integrated information space-covering product planning, specification, design, and service. This article presents theresearch undertaken to enable this evolution and to test the application of the tool in industry. The work consisted of extending the notation and the functionality of the DRed tool in the service of new methods for information representation and developing a newapproach to designing and its documentation by integrateddiagrams. Thus far, the approach has been taught for two years and a half to engineering graduates involvedin the training programme of the collaborating company. The application of the approach to an aerospace engineering design task is illustrated through a case study. The results of the evaluation have shown thatcreating large digital information spaces is feasible and delivers benefits to users.
Aurisicchio M, Bracewell RH, Wallace KM, 2013, Characterising the information requests of aerospace engineering designers, Research in Engineering Design, Vol: 24, Pages: 43-63
During product development, engineering designers raise several information requests that make them search through human and documentary sources. This paper reports research to characterise, in detail, these requests for designers working in a major aerospace engineering company. The research found that at a high level, a distinction can be made between requests to acquire information and to process information. The former are raised to access design and domain information. The latter, instead, are formed to define designs. For researchers, this study extends existing knowledge of information requests by characterising key differences in their nature and explaining how they are used in the design process. For practitioners, these findings can be used as a basis to understand the diverseness of information requests and how to channel efforts to support designers in information seeking. In particular, the research indicates that a strategy to support designers should enable the development of engineering communities that share information effectively and the introduction of techniques that facilitate the documentation of information.
Ortíz Nicolás JC, Aurisicchio M, Desmet PMA, 2013, Designing for anticipation, confidence, and inspiration, Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
Dai W, Aurisicchio M, Armstrong G, 2012, An IBIS Based Approach for the Analysis of Non-Functional Requirements, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Aurisicchio M, Bracewell R, Armstrong G, 2012, THE FUNCTION ANALYSIS DIAGRAM, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences/Computers Information in Engineering Conference, Publisher: AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, Pages: 849-+
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Eng N, Aurisicchio M, Bracewell R, et al., 2012, MAPPING FOR DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT IN INDUSTRY, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences/Computers Information in Engineering Conference, Publisher: AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, Pages: 579-+
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Deken F, Kleinsmann M, Aurisicchio M, et al., 2012, Tapping into past design experiences: knowledge sharing and creation during novice-expert design consultations, Research in Engineering Design, Vol: 23, Pages: 203-218
Designing is a knowledge-intensive activity. For novice design engineers, an important means of acquiring knowledge is to consult experienced colleagues. We observed novice–expert consultations as part of three engineering projects in a large aerospace company. Seven meetings were analysed in detail regarding the design activity, the content, and the form of interaction. Although the meetings were initiated for the purpose of information seeking , this process amounted to only 8% of the time compared to knowledge creation between novices and experts (47% of meeting time), and contextual information sharing (45% of meeting time). Both experts and novices were found to contribute equally and interactively to the discussion and analysis of solutions. The analysis showed how the processes alternated in the meetings. We identified tentative patterns on how these consultation processes change over the course of the design process phases. The micro-level analysis of the design activities and form of interaction provided a deeper understanding of how the consultation processes are discursively produced by the experts and novices. Finally, implications for design engineering practitioners are derived and suggestions for further research are provided.
Eng N, Aurisicchio M, Bracewell R, et al., 2012, MORE SPACE TO THINK: EIGHT YEARS OF VISUAL SUPPORT FOR RATIONALE CAPTURE, CREATIVITY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences / Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Publisher: AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, Pages: 225-235
Eng N, Marfisi E, Aurisicchio M, 2011, ADAPTING AEROSPACE DESIGN RATIONALE MAPPING TO CIVIL ENGINEERING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY, 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), Publisher: DESIGN SOC, Pages: 468-479, ISSN: 2220-4334
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Nicolas JCO, Aurisicchio M, 2011, A SCENARIO OF USER EXPERIENCE, 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), Publisher: DESIGN SOC, Pages: 182-193, ISSN: 2220-4334
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Ortíz Nicolás JC, Schoormans JPL, Aurisicchio M, 2011, An Approach to Embody Personality in Product Appearance, 4th World Conference on Design Research
Aurisicchio M, Eng NL, Nicolas JCO, et al., 2011, ON THE FUNCTIONS OF PRODUCTS, 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), Publisher: DESIGN SOC, Pages: 443-455, ISSN: 2220-4334
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Harrison T, Aurisicchio M, 2011, UNDERSTANDING THE FRONT END OF DESIGN, 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), Publisher: DESIGN SOC, Pages: 437-447, ISSN: 2220-4334
Childs PRN, McGlashan NR, Gosling G, et al., 2010, Linking design, analysis, manufacture and test in the engineering student experience. EPDE2010/216, When Design Education and Design Research Meet. 12th International conference on engineering and product design education., Pages: 210-215
The modern engineer needs to have diverse skills ranging from abilities in re-design, co-design, customisation, management of resources and intellectual property, combined with technical expertise. Design education needs to prepare individuals for these requirements and manage the expectations of the students concerned. A particular challenge is the disconnect between empowered design practice, where the practitioner already has the necessary skills to explore the task, and the novice who is still learning technical and design skills. In order to develop understanding of design processes commonly experienced in industry a combination of projects using fuzzy or constrained briefs are introduced in the first and second years on the MEng in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College. Constrained briefs defining the limits for the design activity, are sometimes criticised as limiting the creative opportunities for the people involved. Some creative techniques however focus on identifying the constraints and conflicts involved with a view to resolving them. This paper explores a constrained brief project, used for the second year, where students are required to design, manufacture and then test their design for a pump. The project encourages use and exploration of analytical skills, engineering science and form development as well as basic manufacturing skills. Students can use CNC manufacture for their impeller and volute but are required to manually machine the majority of their bearing housing and shaft arrangement. The combination of concept development within constraints, use of analysis and engineering science, development of manufacturing and assembly skills and the student experience derived from testing their designs, are described within this paper.
AURISICCHIO M, BRACEWELL R, WALLACE K, 2010, Understanding how the information requests of aerospace engineering designers influence information seeking behaviour, Journal of Engineering Design, Vol: 21, Pages: 707-730
Aurisicchio M, Bracewell RH, Wallace KM, 2010, Understanding how the information requests of aerospace engineering designers influence information seeking behaviour, Journal of Engineering Design, Vol: Vol.21, Pages: 707-730
Engineering design activities rely heavily on the richness of knowledge and information available. In order to progress their tasks, designers undertake numerous searches to answer their information requests. A review of the literature on information seeking (IS) found that the role of the types of information request on source selection has been little investigated compared with that of the source itself, the seeker, the seeker–source relationship and the work context. This paper describes the empirical research that was carried out in collaboration with the aerospace group of a major power systems company to understand the relationship between information searches and information requests raised by designers involved in individual design tasks. The empirical part of the research consisted of participating in a design activity undertaken within the collaborating company and in conducting analytical studies with its designers. Two large data sets were gathered using a diary study and observations with shadowing. Based on the literature review and empirical research, a framework to describe how engineering designers access information was developed. The context of an information request, the request itself and the associated search were characterised through three groups of categories. Designers were found to raise requests to acquire information and to process information. The main sources used to answer these requests were colleagues, databases and drawings. In examining how sources are used, the research confirmed that designers generally prefer to source knowledge and information through informal interactions with their colleagues and demonstrated that colleagues are more often consulted to answer the requests to process information and documentary sources to answer the requests to acquire information. The results on the use of the media to communicate with colleagues indicated that face-to-face interactions are preferred to answer the requests to process i
AURISICCHIO M, BRACEWELL R, WALLACE K, 2009, The information requests of aerospace engineering designers, Research in Engineering Design (accepted)
DEKEN F, AURISICCHIO M, KLEINSMANN M, et al., 2009, Novice-Expert Design Consultations: Findings from a Field Study, International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’09
KIM S, AURISICCHIO M, WALLACE KM, 2009, Towards automatic causality boundary identification from root cause analysis reports, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol: Vol.20, Pages: 581-591
This paper presents the results of developing andevaluating an automatic approach that identifies causalityboundaries from causality expressions. This approachfocuses on explicitly expressed causalities extracted fromRoot Cause Analysis (RCA) reports in engineering domains.Causality expressions contain Cause and Effect pairs andmultiple expressions can occur in a single sentence. Causalityboundaries are semantically annotated text fragmentsexplicitly indicatingwhich parts of a fragment denote Causesand corresponding Effects. To identify these, linguistic analysisusing natural language processing (NLP) is required.Current off-the-shelf NLP tools are mostly developed basedon the language models of general-purpose texts, e.g. newspapers.The lack of portability of these tools to engineeringdomains has been identified as a barrier to achieving comparableanalysis accuracy in new domains. One of the reasonsfor this is the rare and unpredictable behaviours of certainwords in closed domains. Ill-formed sentences, abbreviationsand capitalization of common words also contribute to thedifficulty. The proposed approach addresses this problem byusing a probability-based method that learns the probabilitydistribution of the boundaries not only from the NLP analysisbut also from the local contexts that exploit languageconventions occurred in the RCA reports. Using a collectionof RCA reports obtained from an aerospace company, a testshowed that the proposed approach achieved 86% accuracy outperforming a baseline approach that relied only on theNLP analysis.
Aurisicchio M, Bracewell R, 2009, ENGINEERING DESIGN BY INTEGRATED DIAGRAMS, 17th International Conference on Engineering Design, Publisher: DESIGN SOC, Pages: 301-+
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Deken F, Kleinsmann M, Aurisicchio M, et al., 2009, Relations Between Design Activities and Interactional Characteristics in Novice-Expert Design Consultations: What is done How, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Grebici K, Aurisicchio M, Bracewell R, 2009, Guiding Engineering Design Activities Through a Question Based Approach, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Deken F, Lauche K, Kleinsmann M, et al., 2009, Novice-Expert Consultations as a Vehicle for Organisational Learning: A Field Study in Engineering Product Development, 16th International Product Development Management Conference
Aurisicchio M, Gourtovaia M, Bracewell R, et al., 2008, How to evaluate reading and interpretation of differently structured engineering design rationales, AI EDAM-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN ANALYSIS AND MANUFACTURING, Vol: 22, Pages: 345-358, ISSN: 0890-0604
Documented engineering design rationale has the potential to become a key source of information about past designs. Easeof comprehension of design rationale might play a crucial role in ensuring that the full potential of documented informationis realized and that the effort and time necessary to capture design rationale pay off. This research proposes an empiricalmethodology for evaluating how structuring design rationale and supplying it with visual nontextual cues influences readingand interpretation. The study compares reading and interpretation of technical documentation presented in different formatsto engineering graduate trainees in the aerospace industry.
Jagtap S, Johnson A, Aurisicchio M, et al., 2008, Causality' in In-Service Information and Design Actions, International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2008
Aurisicchio M, Ahmed S, Wallace KM, 2008, Improving design understanding by analyzing questions, 2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007, Pages: 307-317
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