Coordinating joint design work: the role of communication and artefacts

✍ Scribed by Mark Perry; Duncan Sanderson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-694X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(98)00008-8

✦ Synopsis

Trappl (ed), Vienna (1994) pp 483-490 4 Pycock, J and Bowers, J 'Getting others to get it right: an G roupware systems designers are increasingly creating systems with a view to supporting the work of design and engineering groups. Initial research efforts included experiments with the use of multi-media technologies to support groups of distributed designers 1-3 .

More recent research has widened the range of potential technologies, and the nature of the application areas: fashion design 4 , architecture 5 , and engineering 6 . The growth of interest in 'Concurrent Engineering' as a research field proposes theoretical and prescriptive models for managing heterogeneous design groups, and researchers have made proposals on specifications and architectures for computer systems to support engineering design. Such applications identified as facilitating co-located or distributed design work include: shared screen (whiteboard), shared editor, designer's notepad, videoconference, intelligent agents for conflict detection, issue based information system (IBIS), work-flow management, people locators and awareness system, and virtual meeting room. These technologies are developed and marketed as solutions to what are perceived