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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1643-1652 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Jul 2019 |
| Event | 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 2019) - Technical University of Delft, Delft, Netherlands Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 8 Aug 2019 Conference number: 22 https://www.iced19.org/ |
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Keywords
- design engineering
- design process
- prototypes
- purposes
- design methods
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The concept of prototyping purpose : towards a new kind of taxonomic classification. / Petrakis, Konstantinos; Hird, Abigail; Wodehouse, Andrew.
In: Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design, Vol. 1, No. 1, 31.07.2019, p. 1643-1652.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference Contribution
TY - JOUR
T1 - The concept of prototyping purpose
T2 - towards a new kind of taxonomic classification
AU - Petrakis, Konstantinos
AU - Hird, Abigail
AU - Wodehouse, Andrew
PY - 2019/7/31
Y1 - 2019/7/31
N2 - A prototype can be generally defined as a preliminary version of a final product and it can represent both aesthetic and functional features. Prototyping, the process of building a prototype, constitutes an indispensable part of product development processes. Many classifications of prototypes which use a different range of criteria have already been developed and are known as Prototype Taxonomies. This paper proposes an agenda towards the development of a new taxonomic classification which will be based on a prototype's attributes and its intended purpose. This work is justified from the results of an analysis of 8 existing prototype taxonomies which indicate that there is not a taxonomy that explicitly uses the prototypes’ purposes as its basic taxonomic dimension. A definition of the term ‘Prototype Purpose’ is proposed through discussing the differences and relations to the term ‘Prototype Role’. This work results in a list of 23 explicit prototype purposes which arise from 7 roles of prototyping found in relevant literature: Learning, Communication, Demonstration, Integration, Refinement, Exploration and Requirement Elicitation.
AB - A prototype can be generally defined as a preliminary version of a final product and it can represent both aesthetic and functional features. Prototyping, the process of building a prototype, constitutes an indispensable part of product development processes. Many classifications of prototypes which use a different range of criteria have already been developed and are known as Prototype Taxonomies. This paper proposes an agenda towards the development of a new taxonomic classification which will be based on a prototype's attributes and its intended purpose. This work is justified from the results of an analysis of 8 existing prototype taxonomies which indicate that there is not a taxonomy that explicitly uses the prototypes’ purposes as its basic taxonomic dimension. A definition of the term ‘Prototype Purpose’ is proposed through discussing the differences and relations to the term ‘Prototype Role’. This work results in a list of 23 explicit prototype purposes which arise from 7 roles of prototyping found in relevant literature: Learning, Communication, Demonstration, Integration, Refinement, Exploration and Requirement Elicitation.
KW - design engineering
KW - design process
KW - prototypes
KW - purposes
KW - design methods
U2 - 10.1017/dsi.2019.170
DO - 10.1017/dsi.2019.170
M3 - Conference Contribution
VL - 1
SP - 1643
EP - 1652
IS - 1
ER -