Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design

Vasantha, Gokula Annamalai; Ramesh, Hari Prakash; Sugavanam, Chandra Mouli; Chakrabarti, Amaresh; Corney, Jonathan; Wodehouse, Andrew

Abstract

Interactions (i.e. modes of operations through which product development knowledge is generated and externalized in the design process) play a vital role in knowledge processes of product development. Intentional or unintentional changes in interactions could have a significant impact on the design process (impacting e.g. idea generation, costly rework, and time delay). Although the literature has emphasized the importance of various types of interactions, defining and studying interactions from various perspectives are largely missed. In this study, interactions were studied with the following parameters to incorporate various perspective views: multimodal interactions (verbal, graphical, gesture, text and combination), variety of interactions (tools combinations), variation of interactions (frequency of interactions change), collaboration (individual and working together), and designers’ movements and positions. Laboratory experiments in collocated and distributed set-ups were conducted using SmartboardTM and RhinoTM conceptual CAD software to study these parameters. This paper presents initial results from both original and redesign processes, and details follow-up research questions.

Citation

Vasantha, G. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., Corney, J., & Wodehouse, A. (2017, January). Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design. Presented at International Conference on Research into Design ICoRD 2017: Research into Design for Communities, Guwahati, India

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: International Conference on Research into Design ICoRD 2017: Research into Design for Communities
• Start Date: Jan 9, 2017
• End Date: Jan 11, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Aug 16, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Feb 26, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Deposit Date: Dec 17, 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 933-944
• Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
• Series Number: 65
• Series ISSN: 2190-3018
• Book Title: International Conference on Research into Design
• Chapter Number: 80
• ISBN: 978-981-10-3517-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_80
• Keywords: Interaction Collaborative design Distributed design Sketches
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1393660