Seeding, evolutionary growth and reseeding: supporting the incremental development of design environments Conference Paper uri icon

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.

published proceedings

  • Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

author list (cited authors)

  • Fischer, G., McCall, R., Ostwald, J., Reeves, B., & Shipman, F.

complete list of authors

  • Fischer, G||McCall, R||Ostwald, J||Reeves, B||Shipman, F

publication date

  • January 1994