Physual Designing - Approaching Design through the Interaction Space

Engineering designers utilize and depend on both their physical surroundings and different technology-based generic and engineering-specific tools, in order to be effective. Hence, they �orchestrate� the design process using the wide array of tools andcontextual factors that are available at their disposal. In this paper a conceptual framework, physual designing, is discussed. This combines the advantages of using the physical domain for unconstrained visualization, with the increased flexibility offered by virtual media.