Virtual or Physical Prototypes Development and Testing of a Prototyping Planning Tool

Abstract

A new prototyping planning tool guides designers in choosing between virtual vs. physical prototyping strategies based on answers to Likert-scale questions. We developed this tool to augment prior work in design methods seeking to facilitate prototyping strategy development. This new tool was tested in a pilot experiment with engineering students individually tasked with optimizing the design of a four-bar linkage. All students were given a design problem that involved designing a four-bar linkage to be used to draw a specific shape.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 15, 2014
Accession Number
AD1015254

Entities

People

  • Bradley A. Camburn
  • Brock Dunlap
  • Christopher L. Hamon
  • Daniel D. Jensen
  • Matthew G. Green
  • Richard H. Crawford

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Engineering
  • Models
  • Product Prototyping
  • Prototypes

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Regression Analysis.