Affiliation: | aÉcole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, H3C 1A7, Canada bEIFFEL—Cognition and Cooperation in Design, INRIA-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay, France |
Abstract: | By contrast to design meetings, design evaluation meetings (DEMs) have generally been considered as situations in which, according to DEM methodologies, design activities are quite marginal. In a study of DEMs in software development, i.e. in technical review meetings following a particular review methodology, we showed: (i) the occurrence of design activities as part of an argumentation process; (ii) the relative importance of cognitive synchronisation as a prerequisite for evaluation; (iii) the important role played in evaluation by argumentation that makes explicit the underlying design rationale (DR). On the basis of our results, we discuss the potential for using DR methodologies in this kind of meetings. |