Structure of the Design Thinking Network

摘要：

Design thinking, as a complex system, can be described as complex network. We constructed design thinking networks from analysing verbal protocols acquired form a design experiment conducted with think-aloud method. The characteristic path length and the clustering coefficient of the design thinking networks were calculated and compared with that of the equivalent random graphs. Result indicates that the design thinking networks have distinct small-world architecture and the degree has an exponential distribution with a right tail that follows a power law.

关键词： design studies research methods protocol analysis case studies complex network

作者: Yong Gong Shuchang Xu Sanyuan Zhang

作者单位: Colloge of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310027, College of Information Science and Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University Hangzhou, Zhejiang Provin

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE 10th International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design(2009 IEEE 第十届国际计算机辅助工业设计与概念设计学术会议 CAID&CD2009)

会议地点: 温州

会议语种:英文

页码: 531-535

在线出版日期: 2009-11-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）