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