Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Designing engineers
Collaboration among designers: analysing an activity for system development
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Between chaos and routine: boundary negotiating artifacts in collaboration
ECSCW'05 Proceedings of the ninth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Tools in support of creative collaboration
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Expressive interactions - supporting collaboration in urban design
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
The Dynamics of Material Artifacts in Collaborative Research Teams
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Ecran virtuel multifonction: outil pour le concepteur mécanicien
Conference Internationale Francophone sur I'Interaction Homme-Machine
Intelligent Decision Technologies - Special issue on knowledge-based environments and services in human-computer interaction
Proceedings of the 2012 Virtual Reality International Conference
A framework for the study of external representations in collaborative design settings
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Sharing Knowledge and Expertise: The CSCW View of Knowledge Management
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A Social Media framework to support Engineering Design Communication
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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In this paper we argue that co-operation is aparticular way to co-ordinate an industrialactivity and that it is particularly suited tocollaborative design activity. Through a welldocumented case study of the development of afront truck axle, we point out several keyfeatures of co-operation in an industrialsetting. We particularly pay attention to theinterfaces between the actors involved in thecollaborative process. We observed thepre-eminence of the representations and theobjects created, manipulated, and finally weclaim that they support knowledge creation andtherefore allow the development of a commonunderstanding of the design situation (i.e. theproblem and the solution). We propose theconcept of ``intermediary object'' as aconceptual framework for the involvement ofobjects in the design process. We demonstratethe power of this concept in the analysis andmodelling of particular design situations andin the development of specific objects thatfoster co-operation in real design situations.