Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'12)

The Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition was held at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, on June 7–9, 2012 (Gero, in press). The main conference was preceded by six workshops: NSF Bio-Inspired Design Workshop: Charting a Course for ComputerAided Design; Analogies and Metaphors in Design Cognition: Theory and Tools for Design Practice; Evaluation Methods for Creativity Support Environments; Functional Descriptions in Engineering; Studying the Design Process: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches; and Design Creativity Workshop 2012. The articles in this Special Issue were submitted by authors present at the conference, and they were peer reviewed through two rounds of reviews. The Design Computing and Cognition Conference engages a diverse audience with shared and complementary interests. A selection of topics includes the following: