A collaborative game to study presence and situational awareness in a physical and an augmented reality environment

While augmented reality research has grown into a mature field over the last years, the aspects of situational awareness and presence of augmented reality (AR) are still quite open research topics. This paper introduces a collaborative game to explore the different perception of situational awareness and presence in a physical and an AR...

Teams’ boundary-spanning capacity at university: Performance of technology projects in commercialization

Universities increasingly are taking on the commercialization of knowledge as their third mission. More recently, they appear to be challenged to go even beyond that mission and adopt more interactive relationships with user groups and society. A shift like this calls for a solid study on how well the knowledge commercialization has performed...

Evolving ICT and governance in organizational networks: Conceptual and theoretical foundations

Both private and public sector organizations tend to participate in networks in order to gain access to knowledge, skills and resources of other organizations and to create synergies to achieve highly demanding and complex goals they cannot attain individually. The governance of these networks has been recognized as being an important variable...

Midwest Peripheral Collaboration Complex

Design of Urban Strategy, Masterplan, Hotel and Offices besides Chicago's Midway Airport.

Views to deal with the challenges of implementing Best Value: A study to provide guidelines to optimize the client - contractor relationship in the clarification and execution phase

In order to realise more focus on quality in tenders the construction industry must move away from the low-bid arena characterised by specifications, qualifications, standards and management and inspection by the client. New procedures must be adopted to react on the need for harmonized procurement policies for public contracting authorities,...

The right fidelity: Designedly representations that enhance multidisciplinary product development

In product development, representations of the intended product are needed to enable specialists to learn about what they develop together. A variety of representations is deployed, ranging from textual documents like requirements, up to integrated prototypes. The difference between these representations is the fidelity: the degree to which a...

Supporting Collaboration in Global Software Engineering

More and more, software engineering projects are no longer carried out in a single office building, but instead in multiple dislocated office buildings or even from home. When the development process is distributed between several geographically dispersed locations this is known as Global Software Engineering or GSE. The team members working on...

Common Platform Dilemmas: Collective Action and the Internet of Things

Factors influencing collaboration within a partnership of large infrastructural project in the Netherlands: An exploratory research into factors influencing collaboration according to an individual's view, in a specific formed centre of collaboration

Within the current Dutch construction industry, complex and extensive civil engineering projects are often executed by private partnerships, with a public client (the Dutch department of public works, better known as Rijkswaterstaat). Large projects in this context are considered multimillion euro projects, characterised as uncertain, complex,...

ArchWiki: Using Web 2.0 for Architecture Knowledge Management

Software architecture plays an important part in program comprehension, which is one of the most time consuming tasks in software development. If software developers don’t properly share their architectural knowledge with team members, the team will act based on an incomplete or even possibly incorrect view on the code base, and this can lead to...

Adaptive Collaboration Support Systems: Designing Collaboration Support for Dynamic Environments

Today, engineering systems offer a variety of local and webbased applications to support collaboration by assisting groups in structuring activities, generating and sharing data, and improving group communication. To ensure the quality of collaboration, engineering system design needs to analyze and define possible collaboration processes....

Crowdsourcing students for open-innovation

Nowadays, many researchers and companies are seeking to provide answers to a fundamental question: “How can an organization apply collective intelligence through open innovation and crowdsourcing to create competitive advantage?” On the other hand, the global growth of on-line sales, the web 2.0 revolution and the ability to reach users,...

Representing Collaboration in Concurrent Design Process by Using BPMN2.0 Modelling Language: Whether collaboration issues can be better learned and benefited by using BPMN2.0 modelling language in concurrent design process of ESA projects?

This MSc research intends to use modelling method to represent collaboration system and develop improvement suggestions. The represented collaboration system is under the background of concurrent design process in ESA design projects. The whole research can be mainly separated into three parts. The first part is related to explore suitable...

Supporting convergence in groups: (re-) design and evaluation of two thinkLets for convergence and a technique for similarity detection

To solve complex problems brainstorming with a Group Support System can be a helpful tool. Social comparison and association effects are factors that stimulate the generation of creative and high quality ideas or concepts. Also, the GSS’ capabilities that allow a group to work in parallel contributes to the swiftness with which a fast growing...

A Future Focus on Collaborative Design