Practical Support for Collaborative Design Involving Divided Interests (1999)
article⁄Practical Support for Collaborative Design Involving Divided Interests (1999)
abstract⁄Collaboration is common in design, yet relatively little is known about the cognitive reasoning processes that occur during collaboration. This paper discusses collaborative design, emphasizing the elaboration and transformations of the problem search space, and the roles that unstructured verbal communication and graphic communication can play in these processes. The paper discusses a prototype system called the Immersive Discussion Tool IDT that supports asynchronous design. IDT allows collaborators to markup 3D models over the Internet using a variety of tools, including diagrammatic marks, dynamic simulations and text annotations. IDT relies on VRML to view the models, with an extensive Javabased interface on the backend powering the interactive construction and playback of graphical annotations, the management of threaded discussions, and the management of file inputoutput. The development of this tool has revealed the difficulty of constructing complex marks in a virtual 3D space, and the initial implementation of IDT suggests several strategies for solving these problems.
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| Year |
1999 |
| Authors |
Latch Craig, David; Zimring, Craig. |
| Issue |
Media and Design Process |
| Pages |
126-137 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
practical-support-collaborative-design-involving-divided |
