Changing our view on design evaluation meetings methodology: a study of software technical review meetings

Patrick d'Astous (1) , Françoise Détienne (2) , Willemien Visser (2) , Pierre Robillard (1)

1 EPM - École Polytechnique de Montréal
2 EIFFEL2 - Cognition and Cooperation in Design

By contrast to design meetings, design evaluation meetings (DEMs) have generally been considered as situations in which, according to DEMs methodologies, design activities are quite marginal. In a study of DEMs in software development, i.e. in technical review meetings following a particular review methodology, we showed: (i) the occurrence of design activities as part of an argumentation process; (ii) the relative importance of cognitive synchronisation as a prerequisite for evaluation; (iii) the important role played in evaluation by argumentation that makes explicit the underlying design rationale (DR). On the basis of our results, we discuss the potential for using DR methodologies in this kind of meetings.

Mots clés: collaborative design; design activity; design methodology; teamwork

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Patrick d'Astous, Françoise Détienne, Willemien Visser, Pierre Robillard. Changing our view on design evaluation meetings methodology: a study of software technical review meetings. Design Studies, 2004, 25 (6), pp.625-655. ⟨inria-00117060v2⟩