Agenda for

Knowing and Learning to Design Conference

April 27-28, 1999
The Manufacturing Research Center Auditorium
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332

 

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

 8:00-9:00 Registration
 9:00-9:30 Introduction

Session One: What does it take to learn design?
9:30-10:30am and 11:00-12:00pm SESSION ONE
10:30-11:00 BREAK

Chuck Eastman:
Georgia Tech
A personal narrative of understanding design learning
Cindy Atman:
University of Washington
From novice designer to expert in undergraduate education
Mike McCracken:
Georgia Tech
What do we know of novices?
Dan Hickey:
Georgia State University
How can good assessment practices inform our understanding of design learning?
Discussant: Mark Guzdial
Georgia Tech


Session Two:
Design processes and implications for learning
12:00-1:00pm LUNCH
1:00-3:00 pm SESSION TWO

Nigel Cross:
Open University, U.K.
Design knowing from protocol studies
Vinod Goel:
University College, London
Design knowing from neuroscience
David Chrisman:
Georgia Tech
Practical design knowing: design evolution and iteration
Hugh Beyer:
InContext Enterprises
From the Real to the Invented: Abstraction in Design
Discussant: Ashok Goel
Georgia Tech


Session Three:
Design knowing across the disciplines
3:00-3:30 pm BREAK
3:30-5:30 pm SESSION THREE

Omer Akin:
Carnegie Mellon
Architectural design: What makes it unique what makes it generic?
Chris Mitchell:
Georgia Tech
Designing for human machine interaction
Matthew Realff:
Georgia Tech
Chemical Engineering Design
Discussant: Colin Potts
Georgia Tech

 


Wednesday, April 28, 1999

Session Four: Designers strategies
9:00-10:00am and 10:30-11:30pm SESSION FOUR
10:00-10:30 BREAK

Gabiel Goldschmidt:
Technion, Israel
Using analogies in design
John Carroll:
Virginia Tech
Scenario-based design
Joe Ballay:
Carnegie Mellon
Designing for the unknown future
David Ullman:
Oregon State University
Designing as Decision-making
Discussant: Craig Zimring

Session Five: Conceptual frameworks for design knowing and learning
11:30-12:30pm LUNCH
12:30-2:00 pm SESSION FIVE

Rivka Oxman:
Technion, Israel
Design knowing and learning from a cognitive perspective
Wendy Newstetter:
Georgia Tech
Design knowing as conceptual change, but what kind?
Louis Bucciarelli:
MIT
Design knowing and learning as socially mediated activity
Discussant: Janet L. Kolodner
Georgia Tech

2:00-2:30pm BREAK

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