Dimensions of Communication in Design
Dimensions of Communication in Design
Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Engineering Design:
Design Management - Process and Information Issues
Professional Engineering Publishing, Glasgow, 2001, pp. 473-480.
Introduction. In industry designers interact and collaborate with each other in many different ways, often on the same day. Many of these different types of interaction can be supported effectively with computer tools - but a tool must meet the needs of the situation it is used in. However research on collaborative designing and on design groupware often focuses exclusively on one interaction paradigm. This paper explores the variety of interaction in design by developing a set of dimensions for classifying design scenarios. It discusses a number of important interaction scenarios we have observed in our studies of design practice, and their implications for the development of computer support tools.
Keywords: Design teams, collaborative design tools, computer supported cooperative work, design information management, taxonomies, ethnography.
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Claudia Eckert
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Martin Stacey
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