A representation model of collaboration in design process

Collaboration is one of the effective approaches that help us to share knowledge together and exchange ideas within a team. Sometimes, novel worthy knowledge that is not held by the members emerges because of the collaboration. Such knowledge often contributes to create prime solutions in the collaboration process. However, the mechanism of generating such new knowledge is implicit. In this paper, a representation model of effects of collaboration in a design process is proposed. We can illustrate what new knowledge can be gained from a collaboration by using the proposed model.