ABSTRACT
Over the past three decades, protocol analysis has become one of the most widely used methods to study human design activities and cognitive design processes [1,2]. However,
CONTENTS 5.1 Introduction 61 5.2 Function-Behavior-Structure Design Ontology 62
5.2.1 So ware Designing and FBS 63 5.3 Observations of the Session 64
5.3.1 Qualitative 65 5.3.2 Quantitative 65
5.4 FBS Design Issues Segmenting and Coding Scheme 66 5.5 Results and Analysis 67
5.5.1 Descriptive Statistics 67 5.5.2 Sequential Analysis 68 5.5.3 Comparison with Another Domain of Designing 74
5.6 Conclusion 75 Acknowledgment 76 References 76
unlike many other research domains, there is a lack of agreement in both the terminology and the research methodology. In protocol studies of designers, there is no uniformity in the segmentation and coding of design protocols. e papers in DTRS2 [1] and DTRS7 [3] demonstrate the range of methods and coding schemes applied to studying the same raw data. is chapter uses a generic coding scheme to study a team of professional so ware designers. By using this generic method, the results from this study can compared with those from other studies that use the generic scheme.
