Supporting Collaborative Design with Integrated Knowledge-Based Design Environments

这项研究是由协调问题特别倡议资助的 理论与协作技术。 这是十一位获奖者之一 在这种竞争下。 该项目的目标是制定一个概念框架和一个 一个异步协作的原型系统 设计团队成员。 建议的设计环境包括 基于知识和图形的构造组件， 超媒体系统，旨在支持协作。 的 原型系统的应用领域是 建筑物内的通信网络。 这种复杂性 项目迫使大型和异质的团队在 很长时间 这一巨大且不断扩大的差异， 设计任务的潜在相关知识量， 任何一个设计师所能知道和记住的数量限制了 设计的进步。 克服这一限制是一个核心挑战 对于支持个人和 协同设计工作。 该项目的工作建立在 先前的发展体现在FRAMER系统的设计 人机界面和JANUS系统的建筑 设计

This research is funded under the Special Initiative on Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology. This is one of eleven winners under that competition. The goal of this project is to develop a conceptual framework and a prototype system for collaboration in an asynchronous mode among members of design teams. The proposed design environments include knowledge-based and graphic construction components with issue-based hypermedia systems designed to support collaboration. The application domain for the prototype system is the design of communications networks within buildings. The complexity of such projects forces large and heterogeneous groups to work together over long periods of time. The large and growing discrepancy between in amount of potentially relevant knowledge for the design task and the amount any one designer can know and remember puts limits on progress in design. Overcoming this limit is a central challenge for developers of systems that support both individual and collaborative design efforts. The work in this project builds on previous developments embodied in the FRAMER system for the design of human-computer interfaces and the JANUS system for architectural design.