Tapping into past design experiences: knowledge sharing and creation during novice–expert design consultations

Past experiences, current practices and future design

Article history: Received 26 April 2013 Received in revised form 27 February 2014 Accepted 17 April 2014 Available online 16 May 2014 This article discusses how the elderly experience their ICT usage as the aging citizens of the Finnish information society. Through reflexive ethnographic analysis the human–(non-) human boundary-making and temporalities are analyzed from the “ICT biographies” of...

Interoperability Beyond Design: Sharing Knowledge between Design and Manufacturing

The nature of IC design has is necessarily evolving to a more data-centric design flow in which EDA tools share a common information in a design database without the negative cost and quality impacts of data translation from sequential files. In support of this new paradigm, a collection of mainstream companies within the IC supply chain have sponsored the development of an open industry data m...

Knowledge Creation: a Business intelligence design theory

The primary purpose of decision support systems (DSS) is to improve the quality of decisions. Since decisions are based on an individual’s mental model, improving decision quality is a function of discovering the decision maker’s mental model, and updating and/or enhancing it with new knowledge; that is, the purpose of decision support is knowledge creation. This article suggests that BI techni...

Sharing Tacit Design Knowledge in a Distributed Design Environment

A Visualisation Design for Sharing Knowledge

This thesis proposes a general structure for knowledge sharing to represent knowledge that allows a group of users to share concept meanings and their relations and to organise information about a specific knowledge theme or context. Recently, many developments were introduced for presenting information concerning the use of visualisation techniques, including 3D interactive visualisations and ...