Using tangible 3D models and objects for communication and collaboration

New 3D printing techniques enables companies to rapidly create high-quality and full-coloured objects. This allows them to create tangible objects to communicate ideas and concepts, instead of conventional flat 2D presentations.In order to explore what opportunities this innovation can provide, a deeper understanding of the impact of using...

Collaborating with Communities: A Stedin service enabling Local Energy Communities to become their own electricity supplier

The energy grid is transitioning from a centrally controlled demand response system to a decentralized supply response system. There are multiple reasons for this, but the main one is the need to transition to a low carbon energy system to tackle climate change and decrease our dependency on non-renewable energy sources. Next to this consumers...

Limiting amount of information can increase chances for successful collaboration: Network pictures in the procurement of innovation context. Based on the case study in the City of Amsterdam CTO Innovation Team

Public procurement in the European Union is an important part of interaction between governments and the market. According to the European Commission1 every year over 250 000 public authorities in the EU spend around 14% of GDP (around €2 trillion per year) on the purchase of services, works and supplies. Often perceived as a purely bureaucratic...

Project communication: Enhancing the communication practices of a design team to achieve project success

Researchers in the past have shown that communication is integral to successful results in a project's design phase. This is said so as there are multiple professionals from diverse backgrounds who come together to prepare a project's design. Consequently, communication between these professionals becomes a key component as it is the way they...

The Scent of Collaboration: Exploring the Effect of Smell on Social Interactions

Social interactions are multisensory experiences. However, it is not well understood how technology-mediated smell can support social interactions, especially in collaborative tasks. To explore its effect on collaboration, we asked eleven pairs of users to work together on a writing task while wearing an interactive jewellery designed to emit...

Designing a tool to increase Collaborative Innovative Capacity in public - private organisational partnerships

Collaborative Innovation can serve to elevate the production potential of firms and organisations as well as preparing them for the future. This process of two organisations collaborating together is very complex and becomes even more difficult when organisations are large and very different in their organisational culture or function. This...