Proposal of Design Environment for Life Cycle Scenario

Abstract

To reduce environmental impact and resource consumption, life cycle design is required; especially planning a strategy of product life cycle in the early design stage is needed. On the strategy planning, rationales of designer’s decision and design alternatives should be managed. This paper proposes a method of supporting for planning the strategy with representation scheme called life cycle scenario by managing design rationale and alternatives. We implemented a life cycle scenario description support system and verified the system by a case study.