… begins with functional, or conceptual, design, followed by basic design and detailed design.
Among these, functional design plays the central role in ensuring design quality and product …

… functional reasoning environment should support designs of … In this paper, three existing
functional reasoning models are … It has been shown that a functional reasoning approach cannot …

… The disparity between the functional descriptions of the terminal objects and the actual
structures used illustrates the point made above that the output of a functional reasoning design …

… functionality, termed here as functional reasoning, is central to designing. Therefore, problem,
… By functional reasoning is meant here reasoning about designs from the functional point of …

… Three typical definitions of FR in engineering design are the following: Functional reasoning
… pedal) in a designed artifact (eg, a bicycle) are discussed and functional decomposition is a …

… Seminal work about the use of functional information and how to relate function to … functional
descriptions in everyday life and proposed a simple model for functional reasoning in design…

… design. This paper describes from theory how designers should reason about functions when
designing… is a product’s behavior or mode of action designed but also the use activity of the …

… functional design process (figure 2) starts from a design … variants via a causal behavioural
reasoning process. These potential … reasoning process, if a desired function (overall functional …

… So far, three basic domains of knowledge that in one sense constitute the semantics of the
functional reasoning task studied here have been identified; and a syntax for codifying the …

… The task domain was spatial configuration, or the formal and functional modification of the
design representation of the plan. The subjects, who were 15 advanced level architectural stu…