Supporting group awareness in collaborative design

Author

Liu, Yan ; Shi, Yuanchun ; Xu, Guangyou

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

40

Abstract

Different from multi-user database management systems, CSCW systems must support group awareness explicitly, namely that participants should perceive the presence of each other during the process of cooperation, which is essential to effective collaboration. The authors firstly analyze and compare several means of supporting sensibility, then investigate the model of collaborative design and suggest achieving group awareness by product data which forms the foundation of a relationship among designers. The information model and the shared workspace organization of CECAD (Collaborative Environment for Computer-Aided Design, a prototype system developed by the authors) are presented and its group awareness supporting mechanism is described in succession

Keywords

CAD; groupware; CSCW system; Collaborative Environment for Computer-Aided Design; collaborative design; group awareness; information model; participant presence; product data; sensibility; shared workspace organization; Authorization; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer science; Database systems; Design automation; Feedback; Identification of persons; Prototypes; Psychology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, The Sixth International Conference on, 2001

Conference_Location

London, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-660-18493-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2001.942227

Filename

942227