中文摘要：

为把握设计认知研究的发展动态,深入理解设计认知的本质,对设计认知研究的系统化描述阶段和心智活动研究阶段进行综合评述。分析典型的系统化设计认知模式,总结出其三个基本特点和理论缺陷。着重从人工智能和认知科学这两路径,分析面向设计问题的心智活动研究,指出两条研究路径互为依存、相互促进的关系。指出在设计认知过程分解、设计知识表征和心智影像运作方面需要进一步突破。

英文摘要：

In order to grasp the developments of design cognition research and deeply comprehend the nature of design cognition,this paper reviews the systematic description phase and the mental activity research phase of design cognition research. It illustrates and analyzes some typical systematic design cognition modes,and points out their three basic features and theoretic limitation.It emphatically analyzes the mental image research results against design problems from the two paths of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and indicates the two paths are interdependent and promote each other.The paper calls for further breakthrough in respects of design cognition process decomposition, design knowledge representation, and mental images operation.