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Design Rationale is a family of HCI approaches that purports to support design reasoning. We report on an evaluative study of the particular Design Rationale approach denoted Design Space Analysis. Twenty three students with some design experience reported their perceptions of the approach after having worked with it on a design task for two weeks. They were in general able to make good use of the approach, although they reported both positive and negative perceptions. In particular they found the approach very useful for organisation and documentation purposes, but less useful for communication and reflection. The implications for training are discussed.
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Jørgensen, A.H., Aboulafia, A. (1995). Perceptions of Design Rationale. In: Nordby, K., Helmersen, P., Gilmore, D.J., Arnesen, S.A. (eds) Human—Computer Interaction. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_10
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