Authors
Brock U Dunlap, Christopher L Hamon, Bradley A Camburn, Richard H Crawford, Dan D Jensen, Matthew G Green, Kevin Otto, Kristin L Wood
Publication date
2014/11/14
Conference
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Volume
46606
Pages
V011T14A019
Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Description
This work seeks to introduce and evaluate effects of a novel method for designing prototyping strategies. This newly developed heuristics-based tool guides designers in planning a prototyping strategy based on answers to Likert-scale questions that embody empirically validated heuristics. We created this tool to augment prior work in the development of prototyping planning methods. The new tool guides designers through six critical prototype strategy choices: (1) How many concepts should be prototyped? (2) How many iterations of a concept should be built? (3) Should the prototype be virtual or physical? (4) Should subsystems be isolated? (5) Should the prototype be scaled? (6) Should the design requirements be temporarily relaxed?
We assessed the new planning tool in two environments: (1) a controlled experiment in which volunteers completed a prototyping design challenge, and (2) a capstone …
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