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Several researches confirm that novice designers need to gain many abilities to perform like experts in the field. Design interpretation is a technique to analyze the working product and identify the functions performed by an artifact in the form of a function tree. This paper reports an investigation into the design of an Operating Table by novice designers and the use of Design Interpretation to gain abilities to perform like experts. The observations were made with respect to (1) Organized structure and cognitive action (2) Scoping and information gathering (3) Consideration of alternatives (4) Time spent on activities and tasks (5) gathering basic data (6) adaptive expertise and (7) procedural expertise. The results suggest that novice designers gain by carrying out design interpretation of the current generation when designing the next generation.
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The authors wish to acknowledge their gratitude to the maintenance department of Tawam Hospital in UAE and Professor Yousef AlHaik and Dr AbdelHamid Mourad of UAEU for their intellectual contributions.
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Sivaloganathan, S., Abdulrahman, A., Al Dousari, S., Al Shamsi, A., Al Ameri, A. (2013). Design of Next Generation Products by Novice Designers Using Function Based Design Interpretation. In: Chakrabarti, A., Prakash, R. (eds) ICoRD'13. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_94
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