2008/09/27 by Karen J. Ostergaard, Joshua D. Summers · 73 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Engineering · Mathematics · Psychology · #Collaboration in agile enterprises #Completeness (order theory) #Computer science #Data science #Design Education and Practice #Ecology #Engineering #Human–computer interaction #Knowledge management #Management science #Mathematics #Taxonomy (biology) #Team Dynamics and Performance #Usability
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09544820701499654
published in Journal of Engineering Design 20(1), 57-81 (Taylor & Francis)
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An interdisciplinary review of literature relevant to collaborative design is used as a basis to propose a taxonomy for the classification of collaborative design situations. The taxonomy includes top-level attributes of team composition, communication, distribution, design approach, information, and nature of the problem. Three taxonomic-oriented measures are introduced and used to evaluate the taxonomy: orthogonality, completeness, and usability. This taxonomy is an initial step towards the creation of new agent-based collaborative support tools structured upon a fundamental understanding of the collaborative process with a theoretical foundation. More significantly, the taxonomy provides a valuable way of organising the research literature in collaborative design that is at present dispersed across many domains and disciplines.