ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT
DS 84: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference
Year: 2016
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko
Author: Škec, S.; Štorga, M.; Antonić, I.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
Page(s): 1605-1614
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore different aspects of information-related activities in product development teams. To enable analysis of information behaviour at lower level of process granularity and to allow longer data collection with several participants, work sampling self-reporting approach was selected as an appropriate one for data collection. After analysis of processes in two case companies, results demonstrated diversity and frequency of information-related activities within different product development contexts, but also indicated differences in individual information behaviour.
Keywords: information behaviour, design activities, work sampling, information flow, teamwork