Multidisciplinary approach to study of design cognitive process: the case of human errors in architectural preliminary design

This contribution aims to show a multidisciplinary method to understand and formalize design process, from a cognitive point of view, in the particular case of human errors in architectural preliminary design process. We first emphasize the importance of error detection and recovery in the sketching phase in architecture. After the description of our methodology, we explain the general theory and model on human error, the short study we made and our proposition of a model on hu- man error in architectural design. We finally conclude by giving some first re- quirements from this model in order to improve to the development of sketch- based CAD tools.