INTERACTION PROCESS IN DESIGN COLLABORATION BETWEEN DISTRIBUTED SITES

Artefacts Supporting Distributed Design Collaboration

This study addresses the mechanisms by which collaboration environments affect design teams’ collaboration via shared artefacts. We collected data by observing design teams consisting of experts and decision makers. The teams utilized (1) a state-of-the-art web conferencing collaboration environment and (2) a three-dimensional virtual world in their collaboration. Our analysis reveals the virtu...

Retrospective collaboration in the architectural design process

The Quality of Collaboration Process Design

Despite mixed research results, the practical value of collaboration support such as Group Support Systems (GSS) and Facilitation is well established. One of the key challenges in collaboration support is the design of collaboration processess. Such design should be based on a theory on the quality of collaboration process design. The main challenge in this research is to identify the factors t...

Can Process Facilitation Improve Globally Distributed Collaboration? An Action Design Research

Distributed collaborators still face problems to organize, to coordinate, and to build consensus. Collaboration tools still have difficulty to configure, to use, and to help facilitate collaboration management. In this study, we conducted an action design research on Company A that relies on distributed collaboration for their business activities. Based on the design theory of collaboration eng...

Process Tools for Interaction Design

In this work we describe tools that can be used to extend the User-Centered Design (UCD) process in its individual phases, such as user research and analysis, ideation, prototyping and usability testing. Doing so can potentially result in the three key advantages of a) involving a broader audience in the design process, b) simplifying multidisciplinary team communication, and c) providing tools...