Collaborative Design In A Networked Multimedia Environment

在他们的设计研究中，工程专业的学生经常没有背景。因此，他们可能无法理解与产品设计和制造相关的社会、历史、经济和其他含义。此外，学生经常在一个孤立的环境中进行设计，很难模仿美国工业工程团队发展的特点。这个项目将研究当高带宽网络和数字超媒体的强大通信工具结合在一起时，协作学习和并发设计环境的一些潜在好处。连接数字超媒体数据库的高带宽网络将使工程设计操作和信息能够在几个远程站点的用户之间同时交换。这种分布式多媒体环境的研究和发展应该使学生能够学习使用技术和超媒体工具的新方法，以便更有效地合作。本研究的目的如下：1。研究超媒体分布式环境（非线性、注释、多表示）作为支持远距离地理位置之间协作设计的通信媒介的固有特征；2. 修改和发展协作设计的通讯工具和资源，以供在分布式超媒体环境中使用；3. 分析学生在协同设计环境下的沟通活动，以促进并行工程设计中协作技能的教学。和4。在工程课程中引入计算机辅助合作作业模式。

In their study of design, engineering students often work without a context. As a consequence, they may fail to understand the social, historical, economic, and other implications associated with the design and manufacture of products. Also, students often design in an environment that is insular and hardly imitative of the team development characteristic of engineering in American industry. This project will investigate some of the potential benefits to collaborative learning and a concurrent design environment when the powerful communication tools of high-bandwidth networking and digital hypermedia are joined. A high- bandwidth network connecting digital hypermedia databases will enable both engineering design operations and information to be exchanged concurrently among users at several remote sites. Research and development of this proposed distributed multimedia environments, should enable students to learn new ways of working with and using technology and hypermedia tools in order to collaborate more effectively. The objectives of this study are as follows: 1. to examine the characteristics inherent in a hypermedia distributed environment (non-linearity, annotations, multiple representations) as a communication medium which supports collaborative design between distant geographic locations; 2. to modify and develop communication tools and resources of collaborative design for use in a distributed hypermedia environments; 3. to analyze communication activities of students in a collaborative design environment in order to promote the teaching of collaboration skills needed for concurrent engineering design; and 4. to introduce computer-assisted cooperative work models into the engineering curriculum.