SGER: Facilitating Effective Communication in Interdisciplinary Design Teams

这个探索性研究的小赠款建议通过对团队成员之间的交流本体论和语言学的基本理解来调查在跨学科设计团队中加强沟通的潜力。这是一项高风险、高潜力的研究活动，汇集了语言学、材料科学和工程、英语和工业工程方面的专业知识的教职员工，以及两个行业合作伙伴--雷神集成防御系统公司和固特异。风险涉及将语言语篇分析与工程设计过程的“言语行为”编码相结合的研究。虽然这样的语言学研究已经在其他领域得到了有效的应用，但这是一种从设计团队过程中挖掘交互(面对面、书面和口头)的新尝试。高潜力是为概念设计提出的“本体论”工具的重要意义，其中通信模式建模和对优化方法的早期研究以确定最佳方案可能导致针对所有工程设计的基于理论的软件。更广泛的影响还包括与行业的互动；固特异将通过证明与设计团队的接触、直接参与采访和调查以及对初步模型的验证反馈来支持这一努力。雷神公司也会这么做。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research proposes to investigate the potential for enhancing communication in interdisciplinary design teams through the fundamental understanding of communication ontologies and linguistics between team members. This is a high risk, high potential research activity that brings together faculty with expertise in linguistics, materials science and engineering, english, and industrial engineering, with two industry partners - Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems and Goodyear. The risk involves the research into integrating linguistic discourse analysis with "speech acts" codification for the engineering design process. While such linguistic research has been used effectively in other domains, this is a new attempt to capture the interactions (face-to-face, written and verbal) to be mined from the design team process. The high potential is the significance of the "ontology" tool proposed for conceptual design, where communication patterns modeling and early investigations into optimization methods to determine best scenarios could lead to a theory-based software for all engineering design. The broader impacts also include the interactions with the industries; where Goodyear will support the effort by proving access to design groups, direct participation in interviews and surveys, and validation feedback for the preliminary models. Raytheon will do the same.