Collaborative design : managing task interdependencies and multiple perspectives

Françoise Détienne (1)

1 EIFFEL2 - Cognition and Cooperation in Design

This paper focuses on two characteristics of collaborative design with respect to cooperative work: the importance of work interdependencies linked to the nature of design problems; and the fundamental function of design cooperative work arrangement which is the confrontation and combination of perspectives. These two intrinsic characteristics of the design work stress specific cooperative processes: coordination processes in order to manage task interdependencies, establishment of common ground and negotiation mechanisms in order to manage the integration of multiple perspectives in design.

Mots clés: collaborative design; teamwork; grounding; coordination; distant work; awareness; negotiation

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Françoise Détienne. Collaborative design : managing task interdependencies and multiple perspectives. Interacting with Computers, 2006, 18 (1), pp.1-20. ⟨inria-00117043v2⟩