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Qualitative Methods and Metrics for Assessing Wayfinding and Navigation in Engineering Design

In: Design Thinking Research

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  • Jonathan Antonio Edelman

    (Stanford University)

  • Larry Leifer

    (Stanford University)

Abstract

Designing can be viewed as a body of behaviors. Fundamental to several design behaviors is Path Determination. Path Determination describes the moments when designers choose what they will take up for development as well as how they experience their perceptual horizon. Our research suggests that there are two primary modes of Path Determination, Wayfinding and Navigation. Each of these has been correlated with different outcomes in redesign scenarios. Wayfinding correlates to making significant changes to an object, while navigation correlates to making incremental changes to an object. In this chapter, I present a novel methodology for capturing and observing Wayfinding and Navigation behaviors, as well as several metrics for measuring these behaviors.

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  • Jonathan Antonio Edelman & Larry Leifer, 2012. "Qualitative Methods and Metrics for Assessing Wayfinding and Navigation in Engineering Design," Understanding Innovation, in: Hasso Plattner & Christoph Meinel & Larry Leifer (ed.), Design Thinking Research, edition 127, pages 151-181, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:undchp:978-3-642-31991-4_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31991-4_9
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