DIGITAL INTERMEDIARY OBJECTS: THE (CURRENTLY) UNIQUE ADVANTAGE OF COMPUTER-SUPPORTED DESIGN TOOLS
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Frederico Rotini
Author: Guerra, Andrea Luigi; Gidel, Thierry; Vezzetti, Enrico
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Section: Design Methods and Tools - part 1
Page(s): 265-274
ISBN: 978-1-904670-68-1
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
The TATIN and TATIN-PIC projects lies at the crossroads of preliminary design and Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) tools. Those projects studied the impact of multi-touch, multi-users tabletop groupware for co-located teamwork. The projects aim was to observe an improvement of the effectiveness of the preliminary design process when mediated by a CSCWD tool. Along 4 years several design observations have been conducted on specific design methods; each result have been presented independently during past Design Society conferences. This paper regroups and synthesizes all those results to draw a holistic conclusion. Digital intermediary objects represent the (currently) unique advantage of such CSCWD tools, as well as their greatest potential. Digital boosts their traditional role of inter-mediator improving teamwork s perceived productivity and confidence in the results, and open a wide range of possibilities like the interaction with AI systems.
Keywords: Computer Aided Design (CAD), Early Design Phases, Teamwork, Collaborative Design, Research Methodologies And Methods