Issue-Based Information Systems for Design (1988)
article⁄Issue-Based Information Systems for Design (1988)
abstract⁄The understanding of planning and design as a process of argumentation of the designer with himself or with others has led to the concept of IBIS IssueBased Information Systems. The elements of IBIS are Issues, each of which are associated with alternative positions. These in turn are associated with arguments which support or object to a given position or another argument. In the course of the treatment of issues, new issues come up which are treated likewise.IssueBased Information Systems are used as a means of widening the coverage of a problem. By encouraging a greater degree of participation, particularly in the earlier phases of the process, the designer is increasing the opportunity that difficulties of his proposed solution, unseen by him, will be discovered by others. Since the problem observed by a designer can always be treated as merely a symptom of another higherlevel problem, the argumentative approach also increases the likelyhood that someone will attempt to attack the problem from this point of view. Another desirable characteristic of the IssueBased Information System is that it helps to make the design process ’transparent’. Transparency here refers tO the ability of observers as well as participants to trace back the process of decisionmaking.This paper offers a description of a computersupported IBIS written in ‘C’ using the ‘XWindows’ user interface, including a discussion of the usefulness of IBIS in design, as well as comments on the role of the computer in IBIS implementation, and related developments in computing.
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| Year |
1988 |
| Authors |
Noble, Douglas; Rittel, Horst W.J. |
| Issue |
Computing in Design Education |
| Pages |
275-286 |
| Library link |
Pamela J. Bancroft, 1988. bib⁄Computing In Design Education. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
issue-based-information-systems-design |
