Design Computing and Cognition '08

Preface; List of Reviewers; SHAPE GRAMMARS; Automating the Creation of Shape Grammar Rules, by Seth Orsborn, Jonathan Cagan and Peter Boatwright; Ontologies and Shape Grammars: Communication Between Knowledge-Based and Generative Systems, by François Grobler, Ajla Aksamija, Hyu,aoo Kim, Ramesh Krishnamurti, Kui Yue and Casey Hickerson; Categorisation of Designs According to Preference Values for Shape Rules, by Sungwoo Lim, Miquel Prats, Scott Chase and Steve Garner; A Technique for Implementing a Computation-Friendly Shape Grammar Interpreter, by Kui Yue and Ramesh Krishnamurti; Approximating Shapes with Topologies, by Djordje Krstic; DESIGN COGNITION - 1;Diagrams as a Tool in the Design of Information Systems, by Jeffvey Nickerson, James Corter, Barbara Tversky, Doris Zahner and Yun Jin Rho; Form as a Visual Encounter: Using Eye Movement Studies for Design Reasoning, by Ameya Athavankar; The Role of Immersivity in Three-Dimensional Mental Rotation, by Maria Kozhevnikov and Jodie Royan; Comprehension of Layout Complexity: Effects of Architectural Expertise and Mode of Presentation, by Christoph Holscher and Ruth Conroy Dalton; KNOWLEDGE-BASED DESIGN;Guitar Hero: A Knowledge-Based System to Support Creativity in the Design and Manufacturing of Electric Guitars, by Stefania Bandini, Andrea Bonomi and Fabio Sartori; Discovering Implicit Constraints in Design, by Madan Mohan Dabbeeru and Amitabha Mukerjee; Capturing Collaborative Design Decisions and Rationale, by Janet Burge and James Kiper; Setting Up The Situated Function-Behaviour-Structure Framework For User-Centered Software Design, by Matthias UJacker and Alexander Zeier; Empirical Examination of the Functional Basis and Design Repository, by Benjamin Caldwell, Chiradeep Sen, Gregory Mocko, Joshua Summers and Georges Fadel; SKETCHING, DIAGRAMS AND VISUALIZATION;Is There Anything to Expect from 3D CAAD Views in Sketching Support Tools?, by Françoise D arses,Anais Mayeur, Catherine Elsen and Pierre Leclercq; Idea

JOHN GERO is a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Study and at the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University and a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Formerly he was Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, at the University of Sydney. He is the author or editor of 43 books and over 550 papers in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or Cognitive Science at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL-Lausanne in Switzerland. His former doctoral students are professors in the USA, UK, Australia, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.