TY - JFULL AU - G. Haupt PY - 2013/7/ TI - Synergy in Vertical Transformations of Expert Designers T2 - International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences SP - 1648 EP - 1656 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6932 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 78, 2013 N2 - Existing literature ondesign reasoning seems to give either one sided accounts on expert design behaviour based on internal processing. In the same way ecological theoriesseem to focus one sidedly on external elementsthat result in a lack of unifying design cognition theory. Although current extended design cognition studies acknowledge the intellectual interaction between internal and external resources, there still seems to be insufficient understanding of the complexities involved in such interactive processes. As such,this paper proposes a novelmulti-directional model for design researchers tomap the complex and dynamic conduct controlling behaviour in which both the computational and ecological perspectives are integrated in a vertical manner. A clear distinction between identified intentional and emerging physical drivers, and relationships between them during the early phases of experts- design process, is demonstrated by presenting a case study in which the model was employed. ER -