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A Meta-Design Model for Creative Distributed Collaborative Design

A Meta-Design Model for Creative Distributed Collaborative Design

Li Zhu, Barbara R. Barricelli, Claudia Iacob
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 16
ISSN: 1947-3532|EISSN: 1947-3540|EISBN13: 9781613506646|DOI: 10.4018/jdst.2011100101
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Zhu, Li, et al. "A Meta-Design Model for Creative Distributed Collaborative Design." IJDST vol.2, no.4 2011: pp.1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdst.2011100101

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Zhu, L., Barricelli, B. R., & Iacob, C. (2011). A Meta-Design Model for Creative Distributed Collaborative Design. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), 2(4), 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdst.2011100101

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Zhu, Li, Barbara R. Barricelli, and Claudia Iacob. "A Meta-Design Model for Creative Distributed Collaborative Design," International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) 2, no.4: 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdst.2011100101

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Abstract

As collaboration in creating software systems becomes more complex and frequent among multidisciplinary teams, finding new strategies to support this collaboration becomes crucial. The challenge is to bridge the communication gaps among stakeholders with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. Moreover, future uses and issues cannot be completely anticipated at design time, and it is necessary to develop open-ended software environments that can be evolved and tailored in opportunistic ways to tackle co-evolution of users and systems. A conceptual meta-design model, the Hive-Mind Space (HMS) model, has been proposed to support multidisciplinary design teams’ collaboration and foster their situated innovation. The model provides localized habitable environments for diverse stakeholders and tools for them to tailor the system, allowing the co-evolution of systems and practices. The authors explore the possibility of utilizing boundary objects within the HMS model to facilitate the communication amongst stakeholders as well as their participation in the creative distributed design process. Two concrete case studies, a factory automation and the Valchiavenna Portal, demonstrate the implementation of the HMS model and provide a possible solution to overcome the complex, evolving and emerging nature of the collaborative design.

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