Scalable Enterprise Systems: Designing Construction Information Workspaces: Making Information Work for Project Teams

0075672Fischer该基金为探索开发一种新型的建筑信息技术提供资金：建筑信息工作空间（CIW）。CIW是一个交互式环境，以可视化方式传达建设项目信息及其相互关系，以支持团队任务，如项目审查，协调和决策。CIW可视化将根据对计划和正在进行的资本设施项目的项目会议的观察以及科学和工程领域现有的信息可视化来指定和原型化。机制或过滤器将被形式化和实现，以基于从当前在建筑行业中使用的最先进的桌面工具（例如，3D CAD、项目管理软件），并基于新兴的综合信息系统。通过在实践中的观察，并通过测试与从业者在CIW，指标将被开发，以评估开发的可视化支持组任务的有用性。CIW将在斯坦福大学计算机科学系计算机图形学和人机交互研究小组目前正在开发的“信息工作空间”中实施，如果成功，这项研究的结果将为建筑信息化的发展提供路线图。观察表明，目前的单用户人机交互工具不适合群体使用。因此，该路线图将包括用于支持组任务的可视化设计的指导方针，从数据库和遗留软件生成可视化所需的机制类型的示例，以及评估特定可视化是否对组任务有用的指标。CIW将减少当今项目中经常出现的信息过载状态。它们将使当前静态的项目信息具有交互性。它们将通过直观地表示项目信息之间的关键关系来帮助团队共享讨论的焦点。因此，团队将更有可能做出更好的决策，并以战略而不仅仅是反应的方式使用可用的项目信息。由于项目涉及大量的利益相关者，并且由于描述项目所需的各种类型的信息的大量且频繁变化的集合，建筑领域为“信息化”提供了具有挑战性的应用领域。因此，这项研究的结果可能会在其他领域有用。

0075672FischerThis grant provides funding for the exploratory development of a new kind of construction information technology: construction information workspace (CIW). A CIW is an interactive environment that visually communicates construction project information and their inter-relationships to support group tasks, such as project review, coordination and decision-making. CIW visualizations will be specified and prototyped based on observations of project meetings on planned and on-going capital facility projects and based on existing information visualizations in science and engineering. Mechanisms or filters will be formalized and implemented to generate these visualizations based on information obtained from state-of-the-art desktop tools currently in use in the construction industry (e.g., 3D CAD, project management software) and based on emerging integrated information systems. Through observations in practice and through tests with practitioners in the CIW, metrics will be developed to assess the usefulness of the developed visualizations to support group tasks. The CIW will be implemented in the _'Information Workspace' currently under development in Computer Graphics and Human Computer Interaction research groups in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.If successful the results of this research will provide a roadmap for the development of construction information workspaces. Observations have shown that current single-user human computer interaction tools are inappropriate for group use. Therefore, the roadmap will include guidelines for the design of visualizations to support group tasks, examples of the types of mechanisms needed to generate the visualizations from databases and legacy software, and metrics to evaluate whether a particular visualization will be useful for group tasks. CIWs will reduce the state of information overload often observed on projects today. They will make the currently static project information interactive. They will help a team share the focus of a discussion through visually representing the critical relationships between project information. Therefore, teams will be more likely to make better decisions and use available project information in a strategic and not just reactive way. The construction domain provides a challenging application domain for _'information workspaces' because of the large number of stakeholders involved in a project and because of the large and frequently changing sets of various types of information necessary to describe a project. Hence the results from this research will likely be useful in other domains.