Intelligent support for communication in design teams: garment shape specifications in the knitwear industry

摘要

Communication between different members of a design team is a notoriously difficult problem, especially at the early stages of the design process. In the knitwear design process, the communication between knitwear designers and technicians has been identified in an empirical study as a major bottleneck. While knitwear is inherently difficult to communicate, the design culture does little ease the problem.