The concept of function offers a high potential for thinking and reasoning about designs as well as providing a common thread for relating together other design information. This paper focuses specifically on risk data by examining how this information is addressed for a design team conducting early stage design for space missions. Sample risk information is decomposed into a set of key attributes which are then used to scrutinize the risk information using three approaches from the pragmatics sub-field of linguistics: i) Gricean, ii) Relevance Theory, and iii) Functional Analysis. Based on the deficiencies identified in this analysis, the concepts of functional templates and a risk worksheet are used to suggest corrective actions for improving treatment of risk data by explicitly accounting for five risk attributes developed in this work.
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ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 24–28, 2005
Long Beach, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4742-X
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An Analysis of Risk and Function Information in Early Stage Design
Michael Van Wie,
Michael Van Wie
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
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Katie Grantham,
Katie Grantham
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
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Robert Stone,
Robert Stone
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
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Francesca Barrientos,
Francesca Barrientos
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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Irem Tumer
Irem Tumer
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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Michael Van Wie
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
Katie Grantham
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
Robert Stone
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
Francesca Barrientos
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Irem Tumer
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Paper No:
DETC2005-85405, pp. 483-496; 14 pages
Published Online:
June 11, 2008
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Van Wie, M, Grantham, K, Stone, R, Barrientos, F, & Tumer, I. "An Analysis of Risk and Function Information in Early Stage Design." Proceedings of the ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 5a: 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology. Long Beach, California, USA. September 24–28, 2005. pp. 483-496. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2005-85405
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