@inproceedings{78db395530084fe5811dd7d06b68ef77,
title = "A Virtual Design Platform Bridging Barriers When Designing with Computers",
abstract = "The paper summarizes the results of a diploma thesis. Taking the potential of computers to be an ultimate design-medium as its premise, the thesis examines how to enhance the way we use digital design tools. It identifies central characteristics of the design process that need to be considered in a digital design environment. Based on a conception of design as a cyclic process involving appropriate design tools, the paper singles out usability, in the sense of ease of use of such tools, as a key criteria for overcoming problems associated with designing on and with the computer. Drawing on these considerations a prototype has been developed which attempts to bridge barriers between the use of different design tools using an existing software framework.",
keywords = "Design theory, design process, collaboration, freehand sketching, interface-design",
author = "Sven Schneider and Frank Petzold",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2004, Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. All rights reserved.; 27th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2009 ; Conference date: 16-09-2009 Through 19-09-2009",
year = "2009",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780954118389",
series = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe",
publisher = "Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe",
pages = "205--212",
editor = "G{\"u}len {\c C}agdas and Birg{\"u}l {\c C}olakoglu",
booktitle = "Computation",
}