The Economies and Dimensionality of Prototyping: Value, Time, Cost and Fidelity
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Silva, Arlindo; Wood, Kristin L.; Jensen, Daniel D.; Tiong, Edward; Seow, Olivia Wen; Teo, Kenneth; Yang, Maria C.; ... Show more Show less![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/120042/v007t06a045-detc2018-85747.pdf.jpg?sequence=6&isAllowed=y)
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Economic use of early stage prototyping is of paramount importance to companies engaged in the development of innovative products, services and systems because it directly impacts their bottom-line [1, 2]. There is likewise a need to understand the dimensions and lenses that make up an economic profile of prototypes. Yet, there is no reliable understanding of how resources expended and views of dimensionality across prototyping translate into value [3, 4]. To help practitioners, designers, and researchers leverage prototyping most economically, we seek to understand the tradeoff between design information gained and the resource expended into prototyping to gain that information [5]. We investigate this topic by conducting an inductive study on industry projects across disciplines and knowledge domains, while collecting and analyzing empirical data on their physical prototyping process [3]. Our research explores ways of quantifying prototyping value and reinforcing the asymptotic relationship between value and fidelity [6]. Most intriguingly, it reveals insightful heuristics that practitioners can exploit to generate high value from low and high fidelity prototypes alike.
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2018-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyJournal
Volume 7: 30th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
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ASME
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Tiong, Edward, Olivia Seow, Kenneth Teo, Arlindo Silva, Kristin L. Wood, Daniel D. Jensen, and Maria C. Yang. “The Economies and Dimensionality of Prototyping: Value, Time, Cost and Fidelity.” Volume 7: 30th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (August 26, 2018).
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978-0-7918-5184-5