Collaborative Research: TheDesignExchange, an Interactive Portal for the Design Community of Practice

协作研究：TheDesignExchange，设计实践社区的互动门户

• 批准号: 1334361
• 负责人: Alice Agogino
• 金额: $ 48.71万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1334361&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; TheDesignExchange; Interactive; Portal; Collaborative; Research; TheDesignExchange; Interactive; Portal

The objective of this collaborative research project is to develop and maintain an interactive web portal, TheDesignExchange, to facilitate the capture, analysis and widespread use of methods for conducting design research. The study of design has been shown to have high impact on the quality and success of engineered products. However, design research does not fall into a single disciplinary body of knowledge, and TheDesignExchange fills a need to organize disparate design research methods, develop a community of design educators and practitioners to evaluate those methods, and educate the next generation of design innovators. TheDesignExchange provides a structure to collect the many design methods in use today, their origins, and use. It also will match design methods to design problems and help designers make informed decisions about when to apply these methods. The portal supports the entire design process, providing educators and practitioners alike with a versatile library of proven tools. TheDesignExchange aims to be the largest public library of design research methods. The methods cover a wide range of communities and applications, including, for example, methods most effective for design for under-served communities. Faculty, undergraduates and graduate students of diverse backgrounds and heritage participate in this research, as well as practitioners and leaders from industry, non-profit and government design groups. The researchers leverage knowledge gained from TheDesignExchange to identify and teach the underlying skills associated with the various methods, providing recent graduates a more fluid understanding of how, why, and when to apply specific design research methods.

该协作研究项目的目的是开发和维护交互式网站Thedesignexchange，以促进捕获，分析和广泛使用用于进行设计研究的方法。设计的研究已显示对工程产品的质量和成功产生了很大的影响。但是，设计研究并不属于单一的纪律知识体系，而Thedesignexchange填补了组织不同的设计研究方法的需求，开发了设计教育者和从业人员的社区来评估这些方法，并教育下一代设计创新者。 TheDesignExchange提供了一种结构，以收集当今使用的许多设计方法，其起源和使用。 它还将匹配设计问题的设计方法，并帮助设计师就何时应用这些方法做出明智的决定。 该门户网站支持整个设计过程，为教育工作者和从业人员提供多功能库的著名工具库。 TheDesignExchange的目标是成为设计研究方法的最大公共图书馆。这些方法涵盖了广泛的社区和应用程序，包括例如，对于服务不足社区的设计最有效的方法。具有不同背景和遗产的教职员工，本科生和研究生参加了这项研究，以及来自行业，非营利和政府设计小组的从业人员和领导者。研究人员利用从Thedesignexchange获得的知识来识别和教授与各种方法相关的潜在技能，从而使最近的毕业生对如何，为什么以及何时应用特定的设计研究方法有了更流畅的了解。