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MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR RECOMMENDING DESIGN METHODS

11/7/2014 Authors: Mark Fuge, Bud Peters and Alice Agogino 
J. Mech. Des. 136(10), 101103 (2014) (8 pages)doi: 10.1115/1.4028102

Designers use specific methods to discern people’s needs and how to best create products or services that meet those needs. Choosing precisely the right method for a given problem is extremely difficult: it requires a deep understanding of the nature of the problem, knowledge of the vast array of design methods, and years of experience. This paper demonstrates that by collecting expert experience in the form of case studies, machine learning algorithms can help new designers pick better design methods and understand how methods are related to one another. Specifically, we show that looking at which methods designers use together can be more informative than just looking at the content of the method itself. In addition, you can use counts of which methods are used together to automatically cluster methods into groups that agree with human ratings; this means that you can study many more methods than could be done manually.

MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR RECOMMENDING DESIGN METHODS

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