DocumentCode :
3093945
Title :
Individual and team contexts in a design
Author :
Brézillon, Patrick
Author_Institution :
Paris Univ., France
fYear :
2003
fDate :
6-9 Jan. 2003
Abstract :
The paper discusses the role of context in a collaborative design process, with a Web-based environment for distributed architecture - engineering - construction teamwork. During this process, the decision is made collectively and progressively after a phase of negotiation among specialists from different domains. The goal of the project is to improve the teamwork performance by allowing participants (the specialists in different domains) to constitute a team and to collaborate in the project by interacting remotely in a virtual environment. The environment takes advantage of the current information technology to permit specialists to maintain their personal contexts and a shared team context, in which knowledge is acquired in concrete situations (i.e. knowledge is acquired in its context of use). The paper presents how context intervenes: (1) in the acquisition of the different types of knowledge as an intrinsic part of any negotiation, (2) how a decision making results of a progressive and negotiated building of a shared proceduralized context among the team participants, and (3) how participants in the teamwork can structure their own contextual knowledge (the individual contexts) and share, at least partially, their individual\´s tacit knowledge with other participants (in the team context). As a consequence, it emerges that design and learning are similar tasks, i.e. design is "learning by negotiating".
Keywords :
Internet; architectural CAD; construction; groupware; knowledge acquisition; negotiation support systems; team working; CSCW; Web based environment; architecture; collaborative design; computer supported cooperative work; construction; contextual knowledge; decision making; engineering; information technology; knowledge acquisition; learning-by-negotiating; teamwork performance; virtual environment; Buildings; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Concrete; Decision making; Design engineering; Information technology; Process design; Teamwork; Virtual environment;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1874-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2003.1173681
Filename :
1173681
Link To Document :
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