Distributed design teams : embedded one-on-one conversations in one-to-many
Engineering design is fundamentally social, requiring a lot of interaction and communication between the people involved. Additionally, good design often relies upon the ability of a cross-functional team to create a shared understanding of the task, the process and the respective roles of its membe...
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ftluleatu:oai:DiVA.org:ltu-40696 2023-05-15T17:09:14+02:00 Distributed design teams : embedded one-on-one conversations in one-to-many Larsson, Andreas Törlind, Peter Mabogunje, Ade Milne, Andrew 2002 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-40696 eng eng Luleå tekniska universitet, Innovation och Design Stanford University Staffordshire University Press Proceedings of the Design Research Society International Conference at Brunel University, p. 604-614 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-40696 urn:isbn:1-904133-11-8 Local fec5b9a0-dcf9-11db-9cae-000ea68e967b info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified Övrig annan teknik Conference paper info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject text 2002 ftluleatu 2022-10-25T20:52:43Z Engineering design is fundamentally social, requiring a lot of interaction and communication between the people involved. Additionally, good design often relies upon the ability of a cross-functional team to create a shared understanding of the task, the process and the respective roles of its members. The negotiation and bargaining for common ground are essential in the design process. It is important to provide tools and methods so that also geographically distributed design teams are given the opportunity to engage in such social interactions. This paper presents a study of interpersonal communication within the Distributed Team Innovation (DTI) framework; a joint product design project between Luleå University of Technology and Stanford University that investigates the future of collaborative product development. The common object of work is to design "Virtual Pedals" for Volvo Car Corporation.In the study, we noticed that one-on-one conversations, held in parallel to a main discussion, were common in co-located teamwork and that they are a natural part of creative teamwork. These conversations were mainly used to clarify things and to discuss vague ideas or personal disagreements. Additionally, they were often used instead of, or as a precursor to, bringing up a topic with the whole group. In distributed meetings side conversations were discouraged and current systems for distributed collaboration could not provide sufficient support for these subtle interactions. This has important implications for supporting and improving the performance of global teams, and it suggests that the one-to-many channel of today's video conferencing technology is severely limiting. Godkänd; 2002; 20070328 (petert) Conference Object Luleå Luleå Luleå Luleå University of Technology Publications (DiVA) |
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Engineering design is fundamentally social, requiring a lot of interaction and communication between the people involved. Additionally, good design often relies upon the ability of a cross-functional team to create a shared understanding of the task, the process and the respective roles of its members. The negotiation and bargaining for common ground are essential in the design process. It is important to provide tools and methods so that also geographically distributed design teams are given the opportunity to engage in such social interactions. This paper presents a study of interpersonal communication within the Distributed Team Innovation (DTI) framework; a joint product design project between Luleå University of Technology and Stanford University that investigates the future of collaborative product development. The common object of work is to design "Virtual Pedals" for Volvo Car Corporation.In the study, we noticed that one-on-one conversations, held in parallel to a main discussion, were common in co-located teamwork and that they are a natural part of creative teamwork. These conversations were mainly used to clarify things and to discuss vague ideas or personal disagreements. Additionally, they were often used instead of, or as a precursor to, bringing up a topic with the whole group. In distributed meetings side conversations were discouraged and current systems for distributed collaboration could not provide sufficient support for these subtle interactions. This has important implications for supporting and improving the performance of global teams, and it suggests that the one-to-many channel of today's video conferencing technology is severely limiting. Godkänd; 2002; 20070328 (petert) |
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