Abstract
Prototyping in New Product Development (NPD) encompasses a broad selection of methods used to generate knowledge about a product or process. Whilst some methods focus on the creation of a prototype in its intended domain, others centre on its testing and evaluation, contributing to an understanding of the prototype’s performance against a set of design requirements or objective. Where prior works have explored the contributions to design knowledge afforded by methods of creation, methods used to evaluate prototypes lack a similar characterisation.
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The work reported in this paper has been undertaken as part of the Twinning of digital-physical models during prototyping project. The work was conducted at the University of Bristol in the Design and Manufacturing Futures Laboratory www.dmf-lab.co.uk which is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Grant reference (EP/R032696/1).
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Real, R.M., Snider, C., Goudswaard, M., Hicks, B. (2023). Dimensions of Prototyping Knowledge: Characterising Prototype Evaluation Methods and Their Contributions to Design Knowledge. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’22. DCC 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20418-0_38
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