Understanding radical breaks : media and behavior in small teams engaged in redesign scenarios
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this study, I present an empirically supported framework for understanding how and under what conditions small horizontally organized design teams perform radical redesigns or radical breaks. This is done in the context of how incremental improvements as well as mid-level redesigns are made. The notion of radical breaks captures what is often thought of as "thinking outside of the box", and reframing problems to find new and unique solutions. A radical break occurs in the course of a redesign when designers make a major departure from the provided artifact. Observations based on case studies of small design teams in a redesign task, suggest three closely bound concepts as a mechanism for understanding how design process determines design outcomes: Dimensions of Engagement; the quality of enactment subjects made while working, Media Response and Interaction; how subjects responded to and interacted with media, and Path Determination; how and when designers determine what they will do.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Edelman, Jonathan Antonio |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Primary advisor | Leifer, Larry J |
| Thesis advisor | Leifer, Larry J |
| Thesis advisor | Banerjee, Shilajeet, 1965- |
| Thesis advisor | Beach, David |
| Thesis advisor | Steinert, Ralf |
| Advisor | Banerjee, Shilajeet, 1965- |
| Advisor | Beach, David |
| Advisor | Steinert, Ralf |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jonathan Antonio Edelman. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Jonathan Antonio Edelman
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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