Design computing and cognition: An introduction

The Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition was held at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA, on June 23-25, 2008. The main conference was preceded by seven workshops, including the Second Design Creativity Workshop organized by the Design Society’s Special Interest Group on Design Creativity, and a Doctoral Student Symposium sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. The conference proceedings were published by Springer (Gero & Goel 2008). This special issue of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing is based on papers presented at the conference and related workshops and symposia.