Kuliga, Saskia Felizitas and Dalton, Ruth and Tomko, Martin and Hoelscher, Christoph (2014) Tools, Stages and Perspective-Taking during the Architectural Design Process: Preliminary Results from a University-building Case-study in Australia. In: Design Cognition and Behavior : Usability in the Built Environment. Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, pp. 18-22.
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This case-study investigated which tools and techniques building planners use during the architectural design process in order to anticipate future building-user experience. Preliminary qualitative analysis of seven semistructured interviews with key stakeholders involved in the planning of a university building revealed that architects and designers mainly rely on past experience and tacit knowledge, rather than using systematic pre-occupancy evaluation methods. Based on insights from interdisciplinary research, this article seeks to encourage further discussion of need-analysis for assistive tools in architectural design.