EDSS Motivation

Desiderata:

• Many crucial decisions are made early in design.
• These decisions are made based on partial, qualitative information.
• This early conceptual design largely determines the quality of final product.
• Designers work in teams.
• Teams are often geographically distributed.
• Design teams can be substantially more effective with minimal, unobtrusive support for decision making.

Goal: Distributed access to shared, active, design database.

• Distributed access: Available on the web.
• Shared: Design teams share a common, evolving view of the discussion.
• Active: Decision assistant records and analyzes decision structure to help team reach consensus.
• Design: We are focusing on early, conceptual design.
• Decision Assistant: Records and analyzes design information.

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Last updated: February 17, 1996 SGG