In the past I found it difficult to relate this competence to a design process. After doing the basic course Modelingi and applying models in different stages of the project I now have a better idea of what this competency can mean for me as a designer.
It helped for example in writing code for movement recognition in the project. Bart and I abstracted movements into concepts relating to the different sensor values and checked our assumptions with measurements. Based on this Bart wrote the code to recognize for example a jump, which is characterized by a pattern of peaks in the z-axis of the accelerometer.ii
On a conceptual scale modeling can be used as a ideation tool, as I saw in the workshop System Thinking for Designers. Models also help in communicating how a concept works, for example this descriptive model of my B1.2 project.
Descriptive model of the system Massine is part of together with other projects in GMIS, for example WOODD.