DESC 9177: Computer- Supported Collaborative Design Coordinator: Dr. Xiangyu WANG Demonstrator: Irene Chen )

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Class exercise  Brainstorm and describe one computer tool (communication media) that is now used/could be potentially used to support collaborative work/design  Examples: , news groups, newsletter, MSN online chatting tool, facebook shared whiteboards, Wiki, blogs, web-based project management Google online document editing tool Secondlife/Activeworlds (virtual worlds) …..

Week 1: Introduction Computer-Supported Collaborative Design

What is Collaboration?  Cooperation: informal relationships, without a commonly defined mission, no risk.  Collaboration: a more durable and pervasive relationship, a full commitment to a common mission, risk is much greater. CooperationCollaboration level of formality

What is Collaboration?  “...multiple individuals working together in a planned way in the same production process or in different but connected production processes.” Marx (1867)  “The interdependence of multiple actors who interact through changing the state of a common field of work.” (Schmidt in Divitini et al. 1996).

What is Collaboration?  “...multiple individuals working together in a planned way in the same production process or in different but connected production processes.” Marx (1867)  “The interdependence of multiple actors who interact through changing the state of a common field of work.” (Schmidt in Divitini et al. 1996).

What is design?  The act of designing is an act that involves others (Kvan 2000).  For most, the process of designing includes other members of their profession and members of other professions.  Design collaboration requires a higher sense of working together in order to achieve a creative result than co-operative design.

What is design?  close-coupled process  Examples: using 10 minutes to design a desk with shared white board sketch out a desk using papers in a face-to-face manner

What is design?  loose-coupled process  Example: design process of a 3D character animation Designer A (animator) Designer B (modeller) concept Design process of a 3D character animation modellinganimation

What are Groups?  Teams, committees, meetings, football teams, surgery teams, orchestras,....  A collection of people working in a common context to produce a product as the result of the collaboration, where the collaboration itself can be direct, or be done in a distributed manner. (Bannon and Schmidt 1991).

Class exercise: brainstorm the characteristics of a group Common goal Size, number of people Personalities: gender, culture, age Technical skills, Tools they have – resources Experience Beliefs, values Communication, collaboration technology

Group Member Work Together!  Having meetings……,  Relying on contributions from others,  Communicating work results to others,  Coordinating activities with others,  Jointly making decisions.