Capturing Design Rationale

Research Theme: Knowledge Management

Design rationale is an explanation of why an artefact is designed the way it is, and not designed in the many other ways typically considered and rejected.

Selected Publications

  • ENG, N.L., AURISICCHIO, M., BRACEWELL, R.H. and ARMSTRONG, G. (2011) 'More Space To Think: Eight Years Of Visual Support For Rationale Capture, Creativity And Knowledge Management In Aerospace Engineering' in ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2011), Washington, DC, USA.
  • BRACEWELL, R.H., GOURTOVAIA, M., MOSS, M., KNOTT, D., WALLACE, K.M. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2009) 'DRed 2.0: A method and tool for capture and communication of design knowledge deliberated in the creation of technical products' in 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'09), Stanford, CA, USA, 6, 223-234.
  • AURISICCHIO, M. and BRACEWELL, R.H. (2009) 'Engineering design by integrated diagrams' in 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'09), Stanford, CA, USA, 6, 301-312.
  • BRACEWELL, R. H., WALLACE, K. M., MOSS, M., & KNOTT, D. (2009). Capturing design rationale. Computer Aided Design, 41(3), 173-186. doi:10.1016/j.cad.2008.10.005
  • BRACEWELL, R.H., GOURTOVAIA, M., WALLACE, K.M. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2007) 'Extending design rationale to capture an integrated design information space' in 16th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'07), France, Paris, 85-86
  • BRACEWELL, R.H. and WALLACE, K.M. (2003) 'A tool for capturing design rationale' in 14th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'03), Stockholm, Sweden, 185-186