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rivka oxman brief bio |
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Dr. Rivka Oxman is
a tenured Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture And
Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She
received her B.Arch, M.Arch. and D.Sc. from the Technion. Her
doctoral research was in the area of Artificial Intelligence
in Design and she is a currently a leading researcher in the
field of Design Studies and Design Computation. In addition to
her academic and research involvement, she is also a practicing
architect and has designed and built several architectural projects.
Her current research field of models of design thinking bridges
between the cognitive aspects of design and the interaction of
new digital technologies. Her main focus is on formulating a
theoretical basis and working models for design thinking and
design generation. Her work on generic and case-based design,
and work on the use of prototypes and precedents in design is
well known internationally. She has developed a model for the
application of case-based reasoning in design, which was termed
precedent-based reasoning. This work includes a model for the
representation of precedent knowledge, the ICF Model (issue-concept-form)
that is well known and has been applied by other international
researchers. For the past two years she has headed a group of
researchers and graduate students of the Faculty of Architecture
at the Technion on subjects of "Cognitive
Design Media".
CDM are systems in which the knowledge content and user interface
is constructed on the basis of cognitive models of design. Here
the cognitive models of design that have been derived from research
in design thinking are employed to create computational design
tools. Among special subjects of this group have been tools
to support collaborative work. In recent years the findings of
the design thinking research have also been applied to models
of design learning. Through her work on "The Mind in Design" she has attempted to formulate a
new approach to education that bridges between the design studio
and the computation laboratory. This work has contributed to
the understanding of teaching and learning in design and architecture.
She has participated in international interdisciplinary research
projects involving researchers from architectural design, the
cognitive sciences, computer sciences, artificial intelligence
and cognitive psychology. In addition to other international
research activities, she is currently a |
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