AN ONTOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO LINK MARKETING AND DESIGN
DS 92: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference
                        Year: 2018
                        Editor: Marjanović D., Štorga M., Škec S., Bojčetić N., Pavković N.
                        Author: Casagrande-Seretti, Alessandro; Montagna, Francesca
                        Series: DESIGN
                        Section: DESIGN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
                        Page(s): 1535-1546
                        DOI number: https://doi.org/10.21278/idc.2018.0189
                        
Abstract
Communication issues between people with different backgrounds within the product development teams are commonplace. The causes are many, including cultural differences and language barriers. Nevertheless, cooperation between Marketing and Design was proved to be strongly correlated with product success. In this paper, we study an ontological way to overcome this problem. The framework is built on the FBS ontology and refers to Consumer Behaviour theories. It was tested on a set of 77 products.
Keywords: communication, integrated product development, requirements management