Behavior Annotated Designs: A Multimodal Approach to Design Rational Capture and Intelligent Design Environments

Previous Work: Our project draws on ideas developed by Myers, Zumel, and Garcia [2] about seamless design rationale capture. Their goal is to make rationale capture invisible to the users of CAD tools. Where their focus is on the detailed phases of the design process, we are focusing on the earlier, less formal phases of design. We are also building on ideas proposed by Baudin et al. [1], of using the structure of the model to aide the retrieval of design information that could not be retrieved from keywords or other simple search mechanisms.