This paper presents a model to understand the factors influencing the initiation of knowledge seeking by designers. The initiation of the knowledge seeking process is usually let to the will of designers, who most of the times do not come to the idea of looking into knowledge repositories or who decide not to do it. Understanding their motivations, practical actions to increase knowledge reuse can be derived. The model is based on theories of human behaviour and it considers factors from three main influent areas: social, technological and psychological. The paper discusses the implications of the model for the preparation of the phases of the Knowledge Reuse Cycle.     «

This paper presents a model to understand the factors influencing the initiation of knowledge seeking by designers. The initiation of the knowledge seeking process is usually let to the will of designers, who most of the times do not come to the idea of looking into knowledge repositories or who decide not to do it. Understanding their motivations, practical actions to increase knowledge reuse can be derived. The model is based on theories of human behaviour and it considers factors from three m...     »