Brief Encounters Network: Exploring New Forms of Online Collaborative Design

Brief Encounters Network：探索在线协作设计的新形式我们生活在一个全球经济中，国际和跨学科的合作越来越重要。该研究网络将探索新的和新兴技术的潜力，以更好地支持协作设计过程。该网络将汇集来自一系列不同背景的参与者，包括产品设计，交互和服务设计，图形设计民族志，营销，工程，心理学和计算机科学在两个研讨会与物理和虚拟参与者。在讲习班之前，与会者将协助进行一次摸底调查，突出他们目前使用的通信工具和程序。这将被用来告知和比较他们目前和理想/未来使用研讨会上确定的工具。参与者将被分成至少包括一名远程在线参与者的小组，并要求他们就开发新的协作工具发表“简报”。这些团队将参与概念设计、草图绘制和场景开发，以概述该工具可能的样子。然后，团队将批评彼此的想法，以完善和重申设计。这一过程很可能产生创新的想法，可以在未来的研究中加以追求，但也许更重要的是，它将产生对目前的做法是什么以及如何改进的见解。讲习班将由一名纪录片制作人录制。这部电影将成为了解跨学科和国际远程合作的资源。它还将被编辑成一部短片，在YouTube和Vimeo等视频分享网站上传播。

Brief Encounters Network: Exploring New Forms of Online Collaborative DesignWe are living in a global economy where international and inter disciplinary collaboration is increasingly important. This research network will explore the potential for new and emerging technologies to better support collaborative Design processes. The network will bring together participants from a range of different backgrounds including product design, interaction and service design, graphic design ethnography, marketing, engineering, psychology and computer science in two workshops with both physical and virtual participants. Prior to the workshops, participants will contribute to a mapping exercise highlighting their current use of communication tools and processes. This will be used to inform and compare their current and ideal/future use of tools identified in the workshop. The participants will be sorted into teams including at least one remote online participant and challenged to address a "brief" to develop a new tool for collaboration. The teams will engage in concept design, sketching and scenario development to outline what the tool might look like. The teams will then critique one another's ideas in order to refine and reiterate the designs. This process may well produce innovative ideas which could be pursued in future research, but perhaps more importantly it will generate insights into what current practices are and how they might be improved. The workshops will be recorded by a documentary film maker. The film will be a resource for understanding interdisciplinary and international remote collaboration. It will also be edited into a short film for dissemination on video sharing websites such as YouTube and Vimeo.