The Web as a visual design medium

Author

Oxman, Rivka ; Shabo, Amnon

Author_Institution

Fac. of Archit., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

266

Lastpage

271

Abstract

One of the main problems of the Web is its dominant textual characteristics. Since the natural way designers express their design ideas is in graphical form, accessing graphical information is a key issue. Since most of the design documents which are created today are products of CAD programs, our current research emphasis is upon indexing and retrieval of CAD documents on the Web. We present an approach for the utility and accessibility of CAD based design information. An approach for the use of CAD documents as a form of distributed case based design resource on the Web is proposed. Possibilities for employing case based CAD as a theoretical foundation for building large design resource bases on the Web are presented

Keywords

CAD; Internet; document handling; engineering graphics; image retrieval; information resources; CAD based design information; CAD documents; CAD programs; case based CAD; design documents; distributed case based design resource; graphical form; graphical information access; large design resource bases; textual characteristics; visual design medium; Animation; Application software; Collaboration; Computer graphics; Design automation; Face; Internet; Product design; Product development; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0210-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1999.781569

Filename

781569