Towards Iteration by Design: An Interaction Design Concept for Safety Critical Systems

On the Importance of Embodiment for Artificial Design Intelligence in the Context of Sociotechnical Systems

“…In other words, the solver (the designer) and the solution (the system) need to be flexible enough for change, yet stiff enough to be able to reach the goal state. The interaction design concept Iteration by Design suggests to introduce a design assistance system to support the designer of socio-technical systems and mitigate the described challenges (see for more information [8]). Support by an assistance system for the design process, the needed knowledge, and support for the solution evaluation can help to tackle the described challenges and will be presented in the next part.…”

“…The IGOR components of the problem, for example the goal state, are in constant flux in the context of designing systems with long lifecycles [8]. Because of the ill-defined characteristic of the problem there is a knowledge gap from the beginning of the problem solving process.…”

“…Thereby information for the design of a system is getting lost in translation from the embodied experience to the more abstract information elicitation processes. The interaction design concept Iteration by Design suggests the use of an artificial design assistance system to help lift the fog of design [8]. By integrating an artificial embodied intelligence system in the design process, the designer could benefit from more accurate information.…”

“…Examples are the ironies of automation [5], or the bounded rationality [1], [6]. An information processing approach also suggests, that the design process and the cognitive functions behind the problem solving process could be modeled artificially [7], [8]. Through that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could assist during the design process and enhance human problem solving (see [9]).…”