Seeding, evolutionary growth and reseeding: supporting the incremental development of design environments

Gerhard Fischer, Ray McCall, Jonathan Ostwald, Brent Reeves, Frank Shipman

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Abstract

We describe an approach to acquiring information during the creation and use of domain-oriented design environments. Our model consists of three phases: seeding, evolutionary growth, and reseeding. A seed for a domain-oriented design environment is created through a participatory design process between environment developers and domain designers by incorporating domain-specific knowledge into a domain-independent architecture for design environments. Evolutionary growth takes place as domain designers use the seeded environment to undertake specific projects. Reseeding is a process that reinvolves the environment developers to help domain designers better organize, formalize, and generalize knowledge added during the use phases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCelebrating Independance
EditorsBeth Adelson, Susan Dumais, Judith Olson
PublisherPubl by ACM
Pages292-298
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)0201765578, 9780201765571
StatePublished - 1994
EventProceedings of the CHI'94 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Boston, MA, USA
Duration: Apr 24 1994Apr 28 1994

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the CHI'94 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CityBoston, MA, USA
Period04/24/9404/28/94

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