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_id	acadia06_200
id	acadia06_200
authors	Maher, A., Burry, J.
year	2006
title	The Re-Engineering Project Developing Pedagogical Frameworks for Early Stage Collaborative Design between Engineers and Architects
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2006.200
source	Synthetic Landscapes [Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture] pp. 200-212
summary	We describe a research-based design studio entitled Reengineering, brought together by two research groups with the aim of further understanding factors that promote conceptual design for interdisciplinary work between architects and engineers. The aim, through a sequence of semi-structured projects, was to reflect upon the students’ attempts both at a co-rational (Fischer 2006) approach to design and at the culmination of each stage to return to the beginning albeit with a more sophisticated understanding of the work. Through this process we found that a close-coupled design process was achieved between these disciplines at a conceptual level but when the participants developed a shared understanding supported by a project language and when each eschewed their discipline specific tools a co-rational approach was obtained.
series	ACADIA
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_id	ecaade03_333_86_maher
id	ecaade03_333_86_Maher
authors	Maher, A., Woods, P. and Burry, M.
year	2003
title	Building Blobs: Embedding Research in Practice
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2003.333
source	Digital Design [21th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-1-6] Graz (Austria) 17-20 September 2003, pp. 333-336
summary	Through a model of engaging research in practice, we present the development of a technique for digitally resolving three-dimensional curves for documentation and fabrication. We suggest it is possible to distinguish the power of the computer as a design tool in the design development process, where the description of complex forms are not well served by the established methods of orthogonal representation.
keywords	Architectural representation; complex form fabrication; practice-based research
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au
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_id	0297
authors	Maher, M-L., Simoff, J. and Cicognani, A.
year	1999
title	Understanding Virtual Design Studios
source	Springer, London
summary	Understanding Virtual Design Studios examines the issues involved in setting up and running a virtual design studio. Rather than focusing on the technology or how to apply it, the reader is presented with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding, organising, running and improving virtual design studios both in professional and educational practice. The authors assess the potential benefits, such as improved creativity and collaboration, and highlight the areas in which our understanding needs to improve; How people collaborate in an environment where interaction is mediated by shared computer resources; How to organise and manage a distributed workspace efficiently; How people represent and communicate design ideas in an electronic form. Of interest to both design professionals and researchers interested in computer-mediated collaboration, this volume will also be of interest to anyone who needs a clear picture of what this new technology can do for them
series	other
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last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	9c00
authors	Maher, M. and Simmoff, S.
year	1999
title	Variations on the Virtual Design Studio
source	Proceedings of Computer-Supported Collaborative Work in Design
summary	There are numerous approaches and techniques for setting up an environment for collaborative design. The most common approach is to extend the desktop environment to include tools for meeting and sharing files. This approach takes the individual work environment and adds tools for communicating with others. An alternative approach is to create a virtual world environment in which the collaborators meet, work, and organise their projects. This approach differs conceptually because it creates a sense of place that is unique to the project, sort of a shared office space. A variation on this approach is to create a virtual world that is the model of the product being designed. This is a more obvious choice when the product is an architectural design, but it can be extended to other kinds of design. This approach is essentially collaborating within the design. We present the three approaches and comment on their strengths and weaknesses.
series	other
last changed	2003/04/23 15:50

_id	f5a3
authors	Maher, M.L. and Gomez de Silva Garza, A.
year	1996
title	Developing case-based reasoning for structural design
source	IEEE Expert
summary	Case-based systems enable users to retrieve previously known designs from memory and adapt them to fit the current design problem. The four case-based design systems described here illustrate how various implementations achieve design assistance or design automation objectives. Case-based reasoning is a problem-solving technique that makes analogies between a problem and previously encountered situations (cases) relevant to solving the problem. Using CBR as a design process model involves the subtasks of recalling previously known designs from memory and adapting these design cases or subcases to fit the current design context. The detailed development of this process model for a particular design domain proceeds in parallel with the development of the case representation, the case memory organization, and the necessary design knowledge. The selection of an information representation paradigm and the details of its use for a problem-solving domain depend on the intended use of the information, the project information available, and the nature of the domain. CBR could be used to develop and implement a CBR system. Although that sounds circular, if CBR is a viable approach to problem solving, it can be applied to the development of the reasoning system itself. Toward that end, this article presents four "cases" of case-based building design systems that we've developed at the University of Sydney: CaseCAD, CADsyn, Win, and Demex. These systems exemplify alternative case memory contents and organizations and provide insight into different potential implementations of the recall and adaptation subprocesses.
series	journal paper
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last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	62a1
authors	Maher, M.L. and Poon, J.
year	1996
title	Modelling design exploration as co-evolution
source	Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, 11:192-207
summary	Most computer-based design tools assume designers work with a well defined problem. However, this assumption has been challenged by current research. The explorative aspect of design, especially during conceptual design, is not fully addressed. This paper introduces a model for problem-design exploration, and how this model can be implemented using the genetic algorithm (GA) paradigm. The basic GA, which does not support our exploration model, evaluates individuals from a population of design solutions with an unchanged fitness function. This approach to evaluation implements search with a prefixed goal. Modifications to the basic GA are required to support exploration. Two approaches to implement a co-evolving GA are presented and discussed in this paper: one in which the fitness function is represented within the genotype, and a second in which the fitness function is modelled as a separately evolving population of genotypes.
series	journal paper
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last changed	2003/04/23 15:50

_id	290c
authors	Maher, M.L. and Simoff, S.
year	1999
title	Variations on a Virtual Design Studio in J-P. Barthes
source	Z. Lin and M. Ramos (eds) Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on CSCW in Design, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, pp.159-165
summary	There are numerous approaches and techniques for setting up an environment for collaborative design. The most common approach is to extend the desktop environment to include tools for meeting and sharing files. This approach takes the individual work environment and adds tools for communicating with others. An alternative approach is to create a virtual world environment in which the collaborators meet, work, and organise their projects. This approach differs conceptually because it creates a sense of place that is unique to the project, sort of a shared office space. A variation on this approach is to create a virtual world that is the model of the product being designed. This is a more obvious choice when the product is an architectural design, but it can be extended to other kinds of design. This approach is essentially collaborating within the design. We present the three approaches and comment on their strengths and weaknesses.
series	other
email
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_id	0206
authors	Maher, M.L. and Simoff, S.J.
year	1999
title	Two approaches to a virtual design office
source	DCNet99
summary	As a fully functional online environment for designers, a virtual office should support both individual designs and collaborative projects. The office should be able to host online meetings and presentations for clients and team members.
series	other
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_id	9ec6
authors	Maher, M.L., Balachandran, B. and Zhang, D.M.
year	1995
title	Case-Based Reasoning in Design
source	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
summary	This survey presents a number of issues raised by the application of case-based reasoning for design. The authors comment on the two extremes of case-based design: design assistance and design automation, and how they share a number of difficult issues related to their implementation.
series	other
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last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	a944
authors	Maher, M.L., Gero, J.S. and Saad, M.
year	1993
title	Synchronous Support and Emergence in Collaborative CAAD
source	CAAD Futures ‘93 [Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-444-89922-7] (Pittsburgh / USA), 1993, pp. 455-470
summary	Design is rarely an activity that is commenced and completed by an individual The more common design environment is one in which teams of designers work together towards a final solution. In this paper we consider issues involved in the development of computer-based design environments in which teams of design professionals can collaborate, focusing on the need for visual and underlying representations which can support multiple interpretations. We consider the environment as providing a shared workspace which facilitates both communication and progression of design ideas, concepts, and drawings. In the environment presented here, the shared workspace has two foci: the workspace that designers see and interact with, and the workspace that provides an underlying computer-based representation for persistent memory. The emphasis is on providing representations that support emergence that occurs during collaboration.
keywords	Collaborative Design, Team Design, Multi-User Synchronous CAAD, Shared Representation, Shared Workspace, Emergence
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2003/05/16 20:58

_id	6bd9
authors	Maher, M.L., Gu, N. and Li, F.
year	2001
title	Visualisation and object design in virtual architecture
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2001.039
source	CAADRIA 2001 [Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 1-86487-096-6] Sydney 19-21 April 2001, pp. 39-50
summary	The design of virtual architecture is currently ill-defined and lacks a framework for understanding existing designs. We present a basis for the representation of virtual architecture that follows from the idea of conceptual metaphor. This approach addresses the limitations of current environments for designing virtual architecture by providing a basis for combining visualisation and object design.
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	6ab6
authors	Maher, M.L., Rutherford, J. and Gero, J.
year	1996
title	Graduate Design Computing Teaching at the University of Sydney
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1996.233
source	CAADRIA ‘96 [Proceedings of The First Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 9627-75-703-9] Hong Kong (Hong Kong) 25-27 April 1996, pp. 233-244
summary	Design Computing involves the effective application of computing technologies, digital media, formal methods and design theory to the study and practice of design. Computers are assuming a prominent role in design practice. This change has been partly brought about by economic pressures to improve the efficiency of design practice, but there has also been a desire to aid the design process in order to produce better designs. The introduction of new computer-based techniques and methods generally involves a re-structuring of practice and ways of designing. We are also seeing significant current developments that have far reaching implications for the future. These innovations are occuring at a rapid rate and are imposing increasing pressures on design professionals. A re-orientation of skills is required in order to acquire and manage computer resources. If designers are to lead rather than follow developments then they need to acquire specialist knowledge – a general Computing also demands technical competence, an awareness of advances in the field and an innovative spirit to harness the technology understanding of computers and their impact, expertise in the selection and management of computer-aided design systems, and skill in the design an implementation of computer programs and systems.
series	CAADRIA
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_id	8b35
authors	Maher, M.L., Simoff, S.J. and Mitchell, J.
year	1997
title	Formalising building requirements using an Activity/Space Model
source	Automation in Construction 6 (2) (1997) pp. 77-95
summary	The specification of the spatial requirements for a building is the basis for the architectural design of the building. The specification usually takes the form of an extensive text-based document, a briefing database for large projects, or informal discussion between the architect and the client for a small project. The specification of a building is still a hand-crafted presentation of information that is neither carried forward to the next stage of the life cycle of the building, nor formalised so that it can be effectively used for another project. This paper presents a model, specifically developed to capture the idiosyncrasies of specifying buildings, that has the potential to provide the basis for specifying buildings more generally and could provide the basis for facilitating the generation of new designs or the reuse of existing designs. The model makes explicit the representation of activities, spaces and their relationships. The continued development of the Activity/Space (A/S) Model not only provides a formal representation of requirements, but could provide a standard for product modelling of buildings.
series	journal paper
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last changed	2003/05/15 21:22

_id	9afb
authors	Maher, M.L., Simoff, S. and Cicognani, A.
year	1997
title	Observations from an experimental study of computer-mediated collaborative design
source	M.L. Maher, J.S. Gero, and F Sudweeks eds. Preprints Formal Aspects of Collaborative CAD, Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney, Sydney, pp.165-185
summary	The use of computer technology in design practice is moving towards a distributed resource available to a team of designers. The development of software to support designers has been based largely on the assumption that there will be a single person using the software at a time. Recent developments have enabled the feasibility of software for two or more simultaneous users, leading to the possibility of computer-mediated collaborative design. Research in integrated CAD, virtual design studios, and design protocol studies provide the basis for a formal study of computer-mediated design. We develop an experimental study of computer-mediated collaborative design with the aim of collecting data on the amount and content of design semantics documented using computer applications when designing alone as compared to designing collaboratively. The experiment includes the definition of an hypothesis, aim, methodology, data collection and coding schemes. The experiment and some preliminary observations are presented, followed by directions for further research.
series	other
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last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	174d
authors	Maher, M.L., Simoff, S., Gu, N. and Lau, K.H.
year	2001
title	A virtual office
source	M. Burry (ed.), Cyberspace: The World of Digital Architecture, Images Publishing, Mulgrave, Vic, pp. 196-199
summary	The Virtual Office design provides an environment in a threedimensional virtual worl, in which a person, as an avatar, works alone or holds meetings with others. Two aspects of the design emphasize the "virtual": the walls and the allocation of areas. The design assumes that the walls of a virtual office provide a visual boundary to the place that indicates what is inside and what is outside the office. The functions of the wall include security, privacy, and a place for hanging things. The threedimensional visualization of the wall as a frame with cubes was inspired by the paintings of Piet Mondriaan. The design has five functional areas that are distinct, in order to provide a sense of movement when moving from one type of task to another.
series	other
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last changed	2003/04/23 15:50

_id	9c19
authors	Maher, M.L., Simoff, S., Gu, N. and Lau, K.H.
year	2001
title	Virtual conference centre
source	M. Burry (ed.), Cyberspace: The World of Digital Architecture, Images Publishing, Mulgrave, Vic, pp. 192-195
summary	The Virtual Conference Facilities design is part of the Virtual Campus, which comprises several rooms, hallways, and resource areas. The rooms include facilities for slide projection, recording, and softbots. The three-dimensional visualization of the rooms assumes that an avatar can walk or teleport from one place to another, The design style is a derivation of the Virtual Office design, using similar framelike walls and distinctive activity areas. The facility has three main rooms: the entrance hall, the conference room, and the practice studio. The use of rooms is determined on the basis of activity and conversation privacy, since the main purpose of the facility is to provide a place for people to meet. A person can hear anyone else in the some room talk but cannot hear someone in another room.
series	other
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_id	e501
authors	Maher, M.L., Simoff, S., Gu, N., and Lau, H.K.
year	2000
title	Designing Virtual Architecture
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2000.481
source	CAADRIA 2000 [Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 981-04-2491-4] Singapore 18-19 May 2000, pp. 481-490
summary	Virtual architecture as the design of functional virtual places is not well understood. Most virtual places are created by programmers rather than designed a places in the sense that buildings are designed. As a result, we are in the era of vernacular virtual architecture. While current virtual architecture fulfills certain needs of online users, a well-designed virtual place is becoming essential to cope with the growing complexity and demand in virtual worlds. This paper presents a basis for the design of virtual places that draws on our knowledge of architectural design.
series	CAADRIA
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_id	9c3e
authors	Maher, M.L., Skow, B. and Cicognani, A.
year	1999
title	Designing the virtual campus
source	Design Studies, 20, 319-342
summary	Virtual Worlds are networked environments that look like the physical world, and create a sense of place for the person communicating, navigating, and doing things in the virtual world. Virtual worlds have traditionally been developed as games, in fact, most virtual worlds today are games. A virtual campus has been developed in the Architecture Faculty at the University of Sydney that is based on some of the concepts of virtual worlds. The virtual campus is a place on the internet where students can go to take courses, meet with academic staff, and communicate with other students. The development of the virtual campus has been influenced by research in design science and is based on the conceptual metaphor of architectural design. The design of the virtual campus is considered at three levels: the implementation level, the representation level, and the interface level. Identifying these levels provides a basis for the design of virtual worlds for professional and educational environments. The consideration of the representation level results in a consistent use of a conceptual metaphor so that a person in the virtual campus can make use of the facilities in an intuitive manner.
series	journal paper
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_id	2fd0
authors	Maher, Mary Lou, Zhao, F. and Gero, John S.
year	1989
title	Creativity in Humans and Computers
source	Helsinki: Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, 1989. pp. 129-141. Also Published as : Creativity in Humans and Computers: A Discussion of Creativity in Computer-Aided Architectural Design, in J.S. Gero and T. Oksala (eds.) Symposium on Knowledge-based Design in Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, pp. 31-44. 1988
summary	This paper explores creativity from a process viewpoint. It examines various strategies employed by humans during their creative acts and posits analogous computational processes. The discussion provides a framework for the current work by the authors on knowledge-based creative design
keywords	creativity, design process, architecture, knowledge base
series	CADline
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last changed	2003/06/02 13:58

_id	a262
authors	Maher, Mary Lou, Zhao, F. and Gero, John S.
year	1989
title	An Approach to Knowledge-Based Creative Design
source	NSF Engineering Design Research Conference. PREPRINT. 1989. pp. 333-346. CADLINE has abstract only
summary	When considering the design process as a search through a design space, creative design occurs when the design space is expanded by adding knowledge from outside the space. A design space includes a state space, points which represent partial design descriptions, and operators that enable the process to move from one state to another. The design operators embody generalized design knowledge about classes of design solutions, i.e. prototypes. The authors' approach to knowledge- based creative design provides mechanisms for prototype adaptation and generation through analogy and mutation. This model is illustrated by creative solutions to building design problems. The implementation is discussed
keywords	synthesis, knowledge, representation, creativity, design process, prototypes, building, architecture, engineering
series	CADline
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last changed	2003/06/02 10:24

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