Knowledge level model of an individual designer as an agent in collaborative distributed design

In this paper a knowledge-level model of an individual designer as an agent is described, in which reflective reasoning about elements of situatedness, and reasoning from the point of view of other participants, are explicitly modelled. This model is based on existing models of single agent design. An individual designer in a specific distributed design process, namely website design, is used to illustrate the model.

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