Abstract
This study aims at developing and empirically testing hypotheses about professional designers' cognitive activities when using object-oriented methodology (OOD) versus using traditional functional decomposition methodologies (TFD). Our preliminary results indicate that OOD may achieve substantial time savings over TFD in logical design. The verbal protocols from a pilot study show that OOD may achieve these time savings: 1) by simplifying rule induction processes used in functional decomposition: 2) by guiding designers on how to build more effective problem spaces; and 3) by allowing designers to run mental simulation more efficiently and more effectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 489-498 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 1992 |
| Event | ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '92 - Monterey, CA, USA Duration: 1992 May 3 → 1992 May 7 |
Other
| Other | ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '92 |
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| City | Monterey, CA, USA |
| Period | 92/5/3 → 92/5/7 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design