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DIGITAL INTERMEDIARY OBJECTS: THE (CURRENTLY) UNIQUE ADVANTAGE OF COMPUTER-SUPPORTED DESIGN TOOLS
Guerra, Andrea Luigi; Gidel, Thierry; Vezzetti, Enrico
Type:
Year:
2015
Editor:
Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Frederico Rotini
Author:
Series:
ICED
Institution:
1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Section:
Design Methods and Tools - part 1
Page(s):
265-274
ISBN:
978-1-904670-68-1
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
The TATIN and TATIN-PIC projects lies at the crossroads of preliminary design and Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) tools. Those projects studied the impact of multi-touch, multi-users tabletop groupware for co-located teamwork. The projects aim was to observe an improvement of the effectiveness of the preliminary design process when mediated by a CSCWD tool. Along 4 years several design observations have been conducted on specific design methods; each result have been presented independently during past Design Society conferences. This paper regroups and synthesizes all those results to draw a holistic conclusion. Digital intermediary objects represent the (currently) unique advantage of such CSCWD tools, as well as their greatest potential. Digital boosts their traditional role of inter-mediator improving teamwork s perceived productivity and confidence in the results, and open a wide range of possibilities like the interaction with AI systems.
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