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Nowadays, industrial engineering collaboration plays a crucial role along product development life cycle, especially for problem-solving and decision-making processes. This paper evaluates the acceptance of two coordination mechanisms for groups when working on a machine diagnosis report collaboratively. The evaluation is organized as a user study and is based on two hypothesis: groups will prefer unstructured over structured coordination, and groups using structured coordination will accomplish their task more efficiently.
This work has been partially supported by the EU FP7-257899 project Smart Vortex. The authors would like to thank Serena Carnevale, Emanuela Bauleo and Michele Biancucci for their contributions in the organization and running of the study and the students of Sapienza Università di Roma for their participation.
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Janeiro, J., Lukosch, S., Brazier, F.M.T., Leva, M., Mecella, M., Byström, A. (2014). Evaluating Coordination Support Mechanisms in an Industrial Engineering Scenario. In: Baloian, N., Burstein, F., Ogata, H., Santoro, F., Zurita, G. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8658. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10166-8_19
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