Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Digital personal fabrication refers to the creation of products using ICT-tools by individuals. In order to supportthe users of such tools who are untrained in design, it is necessary to develop a support system that makes it possible to useexpert knowledge on designing products. For this study, we selected 26 items from the values that are considered importantfor design (e.g., unique, modern; Inomata et al., 2016), and investigated the design activities for realizing these values. Eightyprofessionals in design participated in the survey. Many design activities concerning shapes and colors were observed asways to realize the values. In addition, various activities such as improvements on materials and motifs or advices to satisfy thepractical design activity were observed. We created an index of the frequently used activities to realize each value and discussedits potential as an actual design support tool.