A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling

IF 3.2 1区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Design Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2021.101074

Christopher McComb, Kathryn Jablokow

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Abstract

The design community traditionally excels at multidisciplinary research efforts, integrating work from social science, engineering, computer science, and other disciplines. Simultaneously, design is also developing as a discipline in its own right. In order to balance a multidisciplinary¹ tradition against consolidation around a core set of disciplinary foundations, the design community must make intentional decisions about engaging in multidisciplinary research. Towards this end, we propose the Degrees of Disciplinarity Framework, a lingua franca for describing varying relationships between disciplines in a given research effort. We also introduce research archetypes in relation to this conceptual framework and provide examples of the framework using agent-based modeling research in design. Further, we discuss implications of this framework for the education of future design practitioners and researchers.

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多学科设计研究的概念框架及其在基于智能体的建模中的实例应用

设计界传统上擅长多学科研究工作，整合了社会科学、工程学、计算机科学和其他学科的工作。同时，设计本身也是一门学科。为了平衡多学科传统与围绕核心学科基础的整合，设计界必须在参与多学科研究方面做出有意识的决定。为此，我们提出了学科程度框架，这是一种描述特定研究工作中学科之间不同关系的通用语言。我们还介绍了与这一概念框架相关的研究原型，并提供了在设计中使用基于主体的建模研究的框架示例。此外，我们还讨论了这一框架对未来设计从业者和研究人员教育的影响。

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Design Studies 工程技术-工程：制造

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy. Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.