This paper focuses on the creative side of collaboration and constructs a support system that enhances designers’ creativity during collaborative design projects. In order to support creative group activity during such endeavors, the support system proposed here enables design team members to visualize the interactive communication processes during creative group activity from two viewpoints, one global, and the other local. In the global view of communication flow, the transition of topics and relationships between topics are visualized, whereas in the local view, the details of each communication process can be visualized. Both these types of visualization have two inherent merits. The first is to help designers clearly understand the flow of interactive communication processes and enable them to effectively balance two concurrent actions: their individual creative thinking, and their intercommunication with fellow design team members. The second merit stems from sharing the process of exploring new ideas. Generally, the discovery and initial germination of new ideas is done alone, via individual cogitation, and the sharing of individual explorative processes and areas of exploration is often difficult. However, the visualization procedure proposed in this paper can represent such processes and areas at a useful level of detail, so that team members can cooperatively explore new ideas as a group and derive synergistic benefits. Thus, the two merits of the proposed system can lead to more effective and efficient creative group activity.
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ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 28–October 2, 2004
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4697-0
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Collaboration Support System Based on Visualization of Communication Processes
Masakazu Kobayashi,
Masakazu Kobayashi
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Masataka Yoshimura,
Masataka Yoshimura
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Shinji Nishiwaki,
Shinji Nishiwaki
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Kazuhiro Izui
Kazuhiro Izui
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Masakazu Kobayashi
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Masataka Yoshimura
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Shinji Nishiwaki
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Kazuhiro Izui
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Paper No:
DETC2004-57785, pp. 995-1001; 7 pages
Published Online:
June 27, 2008
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Kobayashi, M, Yoshimura, M, Nishiwaki, S, & Izui, K. "Collaboration Support System Based on Visualization of Communication Processes." Proceedings of the ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 4: 24th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. September 28–October 2, 2004. pp. 995-1001. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2004-57785
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