Dr Julie Jupp BSc, BA, PhD
Dr Julie Jupp joined the Engineering Design Centre as a Research Associate on the EPSRC Innovative Manufacturing Grand Challenge Programme. Her research looks to understand how decisions are made and can be supported across the life cycle of the project in different domains, sub-domains and across different design contexts. Her research contributions focus on how to help a variety of people to make decisions across all stages of the design and services processes.
Julie's previous research at the Key Centre for Design Computing and Cognition (KCDC) has concentrated on the fields of automated design-code checking, life cycle modelling, knowledge development, decision-making, virtual environments, and for the last 4 years in the study of visuo-spatial reasoning. Her research has included the development of innovative software tools to aid designers. In recent years, as a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) for Construction Innovation, she has worked with the Commonwealth Scientific Research Organisation (CSIRO) in developing, implementing and introducing into industry two design support systems: - DesignCheck, an automated code checking system, and - AIMM, a tool to assist in decision making during a building’s life cycle.
As part of her PhD thesis, Julie also developed Q-SOM - a tool to support visuo-spatial reasoning during the conceptual stages of designing. The system enables the generation and evaluation of design solutions, by reasoning about a design’s physical similarity to existing ones. Her thesis addresses the affect of different types of visuo-spatial attributes, their salience and their relevance under different design contexts. She was motivated by a neglect of multi-ontological spatial schemas for qualitative re-representation as well as the lack of context dependent assessments in feature-based classification systems.
Selected Publications
- JUPP, J.R. and GERO, J.S., 'Towards computational analysis of style in architectural design, ' Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 57, No. 9, July 2006.
- JUPP, J.R. and GERO, J.S., 'Visual Style: Qualitative and Context Dependent Categorisation, ' Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, AIEDAM Special Issue Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style, Vol. 20, No. 3, August 2006.
- JUPP, J.R., SOSA, R. and GERO, J.S., 'Generating novel designs based on qualitative modelling, ' Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia CAADRIA New Delhi, 2005.
- DING, L., DROGMULLER, R., JUPP, J.R., ROSENMAN, M. and GERO, J.S., 'Automated Code Checking, ' International CRC Construction Innovation Conference, 2004.
- REFFAT, R., PENG, W., JUPP, J.R. and GERO, J.S., 'Life Cycle Modelling and Design Knowledge Development in Virtual Environments, ' International CRC Construction Innovation, Conference, 2004.
