Communication media in distributed collaboration - Analysis of design experiments

J. Grieb, U. Lindemann

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Abstract

Communication media play an important role in distributed working design teams. We carried out design experiments to find out which communication media are used in what combination depending on the design process situation. This paper covers the setup of the distributed design experiments, the capture of the data using video analysis and questionnaires, the analysis of the data and the presentation of the results. The results show that some media which are widely used in industry are substituted in a synchronous working distributed team. Especially during conceptual design situations the use of electronic sketching for communication was more important than initially suspected.

Original languageEnglish
Pages541-548
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2006
Event9th International Design Conference, DESIGN 2006 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 15 May 200618 May 2006

Conference

Conference9th International Design Conference, DESIGN 2006
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period15/05/0618/05/06

Keywords

  • Communication media
  • Design experiments
  • Distributed design

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