A Framework for Human Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Design
Speaker: Matthew Simpson, ITEE
When: 2004-06-10 10:30:00
Venue: 78-622
Host: Stephen Viller
Abstract:Virtual collaboration in the design industry contains much
inefficiency. Current technologies introduced for design have often
been driven by the computer, rather than the designer. Collaborative
virtual design has been developed through the inclusion of computers
into the workplace adapting office practice and the design process
to suit programmed parameters. This has resulted in hybrid
approaches in design process which shows interactions are cumbersome
rather than compiling solutions driven by process and interaction.
This talk will explore the nature of interactions between designers
in physical settings and how the usability of collaborative software
to support virtual design can be improved as a result. Drawing upon
techniques and processes in design from experts and linked with
ethnographic analysis of current design practice, an understanding
of collaboration design will be revealed.
The intention is not to just find what works in physical design and
mimic these attributes in the virtual world, but to distill which
attributes can inform the creation of virtual design collaboration
systems. The findings could potentially lead to new forms of
interaction that are better suited for virtual collaboration.
Through these findings, current approaches to virtual collaboration
can be adapted into more usable, intuitive systems to seamlessly
support potential between the physical and virtual design realms.
Biography:Matthew Simpson is an associate lecturer in the School of ITEE, in
the Information Environments program. Matthew has a background in
architecture and design, with interests in HCI and usability.
Type: Ph.D confirmation
Contact:Stephen Viller, seminar host (viller@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)