Understanding and Improving the Mechanical Design Process
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This project will study the use and effect of design                       histories on the quality of artifact re-designs.  In controlled                 experiments, designers will be given access to a "design history"               and asked to perform a re-design task.  Design histories, based                 on the protocol data gathered in a previous study and on a                      retrospective study of ten designs provided by FMC Corporation,                 will be formally represented in a computerized browsing tool.  By               comparing the performance of designers who use the history with a               control group that does not use the history, the effects of using               a design history on the quality of re-design will be evaluated.
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