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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"design teams"”.
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Online communication among student design teams
… are quickly changing the ways the product design community communicates in the workplace and in the classroom. Slack, an online communication software with some project management features, has become a popular communication tool among many workers and students. This thesis examines the …
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Computer supported interaction in distributed design teams
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Investigating Shared Leadership in Undergraduate Capstone Design Teams
… of how engineering students lead in team-based design project environments, an example of the collaborative environment that is commonplace in engineering practice. This quantitative study used a combination of round-robin (360-degree) survey data and course grades to examine the Full Range of …
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Examining Shared Understanding in Partially Distributed Conceptual Design Teams
… in partially distributed conceptual design teams (PDCDTs), mainly due to the ill-defined and open nature of conceptual design tasks and their associated solution spaces. In contrast to co-located team members who interact face-to-face, communication difficulties among PDCDTs can …
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The Effect of Design Teams on Preservice Teachers' Technology Integration
… of a specific instructional approach called design teams on preservice teachers' attitudes toward technology, their technology skills, and their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). In a design teams approach, participants work in collaborative teams to design solutions to …
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Interactive computer support for remote design teams : a new approach
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1991.
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Developing Guidelines for Collaborative Spaces Supporting Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Teams
… deficiencies within interdisciplinary teams are known to reduce the effectiveness of those teams by causing erroneous behaviors (Alvarez & Coiera, 2006; Reader, Flin, & Cuthbertson, 2007). Also, many design defects have been attributed to communication breakdowns across disciplines …
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Determinants of team effectiveness for cross-functional organizational design teams
Recent research indicates that teams are an essential element of most leading organizations (Mohrrnan, Cohen, & Mohrrnan, 1995). With the proliferation of team use comes the need for research to better define the design and management requirements unique to specific types of teams. This research …
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Development of a project management tool for undergraduate product design teams
… a custom project management tool in the product design course was to provide a core set of features that meets critical project management needs for student teams in the context of 2.009, without the distraction of additional features seen in other tools. Those core features include: a shared …
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DesignEye : a tool for design teams to analyze and address visual clutter
User interface design is critical for the success of any information technology, from software packages to automobile dashboards. Colleagues from many different job functions often need to collaborate to produce these designs, in work environments which can often be strained. Collaborative design …
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Exploring the Constitutive and Social Processes of Ethics in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Teams
… constitution of ethics in team-based design projects in an engineering education context. Engineering and design work involve complex social processes and ethical decision-making activities and collaboration (Bucciarelli, 2010). The understanding and development of ethics in future …
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A conceptual framework for sharing knowledge and information between facility management/operations and building design teams
… generally accepted that decisions made in early design phases significantly impact the quality of a built project. However, much of the information necessary to assess the validity of early design decisions is not available until later in a project’s lifecycle. The impact of early design …
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Theory and Methodology for Forming Creative Design Teams in a Globally Distributed and Culturally Diverse Environment
… for domestic team-formations to also accommodate teams that are globally distributed. Previous research efforts have investigated psychological factors for design creativity and effective global collaboration; however, few have addressed these factors concurrently. The focus of this dissertation …
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A study of change: how did a network of instructional design teams influence implementation of an innovation?
… (1) established that engaging instructional design teams in staff development fabricates an energetic, resourceful, support network that facilitates diffusion of an innovation; (2) identified characteristics of instructional design teams likely to forge a viable diffusion network; (3) …
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Design in the Modern Age: Investigating the Role of Complexity in the Performance of Collaborative Engineering Design Teams
The world of engineering design finds itself at a crossroads. The technical and scientifically rooted tools that propelled humankind into the modern age are now insufficient as evidenced by a growing number of failures to meet design expectations and to deliver value for users and society in …
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Designing Mixed-Income Communities: Comparing New Urbanism and Everyday Urbanism to Narratives and Lessons Learned from Three Design Teams of Three HOPE VI Projects
… these concepts and theories have guided many designers and planners for the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) program inaugurated by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1992. Since the 1960s, deconcentration of poverty concepts have been central to …
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