NDLI: Against Ambiguity

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Stacey, Martin Eckert, Claudia
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	This paper argues that the widespread beliefthat ambiguity is beneficial in designcommunication stems from conceptual confusion.Communicating imprecise, uncertain andprovisional ideas is a vital part of designteamwork, but what is uncertain and provisionalneeds to be expressed as clearly as possible.Understanding what uncertainty informationdesigners can and should communicate, and how,is an urgent task for research. Viewing designcommunication as conveying permitted spaces forfurther designing is a useful rationalisationfor understanding what designers need fromtheir notations and computer tools, to achieveclear communication of uncertain ideas. Thepaper presents a typology of ways that designscan be uncertain. It discusses how sketches andother representations of designs can be bothintrinsically ambiguous, and ambiguous ormisleading by failing to convey informationabout uncertainty and provisionality, withreference to knitwear design, wherecommunication using inadequate representationscauses severe problems. It concludes thatsystematic use of meta-notations for conveyingprovisionality and uncertainty can reduce theseproblems.
Starting Page	153
Ending Page	183
Page Count	31
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09259724
Journal	Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737551
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Computer Science Interdisciplinary Studies Social Sciences Communication Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science

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