A Technique for Evaluating Shared Workspaces Efficiency

Ferreira, António; Antunes, Pedro

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72863-4_9

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“…Workspace collaboration tools have been widely studied and evaluated for their impact on team efficiency (Ferreira and Antunes, 2006) and engagement (Bassanino et al, 2014). There is a large corpus of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) literature on group chats as well as linguistic research on conversation analysis and dialogues, including online chats and forums (Freiermuth, 2011; Goodwin and Heritage, 1990; Meredith and Potter, 2014).…”

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Just slack it: A study of multidisciplinary teamwork based on ethnography and data from online collaborative software

Azarova

Hazoglou

Aronoff-Spencer

2020

New Media & Society

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New digital technologies for team communication have changed how people work and solve complex problems. Now, millions of people use Online Collaborative Software (OCS) daily, exchanging messages and files in diverse contexts. This article presents a case study of teamwork through the lens of a popular OCS called Slack. Slack was used by a multidisciplinary academic team of designers, social scientists, and engineers working on new biomedical technology. In this work, we investigate whether activity in Slack mirrors social interactions and project progress. We compare team activity in Slack: frequencies of public messages, replies, explicit mentions, membership changes to the 18-month ethnography of the team offline. Our analysis shows team engagement around important project milestones, correlation of meeting attendance, and activity in online public discussions. We visualize the team’s multidisciplinary collaboration throughout the project and discuss the limitations of technology to reflect team interactions.

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Just slack it: A study of multidisciplinary teamwork based on ethnography and data from online collaborative software

Azarova

Hazoglou

Aronoff-Spencer

2020

New Media & Society

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“…However, the flow of crucial information for other process stakeholders and the possibility of adapting the process in a collaborative manner are oftentimes significantly compromised, as the equipment no longer communicates as extensively with other process stakeholders as a human operator would and is additionally very dependent on the rigidity of its routine. Therefore, as a final step in the implementation of an automated collaborative solution, it is necessary to enable machinery to act jointly and interdependently with other machinery and humans alike, for shared workspaces and simultaneous processing of workpieces are integral to reaching true process efficiency (Ferreira and Antunes 2007). This includes the necessity for the automated solution to be adaptable to the needs of other process stakeholders or changing boundary conditions, distinctive for construction sites.…”

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Cobot uptake in construction: embedding collaborative robots in digital construction processes

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The paper at hand investigates the interrelation of automation and collaboration in digital construction processes. Labor shortage, demographic change, and a deficit in productivity motivate automation in construction. While the automation of single tasks is on its way, there is a lack of collaboration between automated equipment and robots along the digital construction process. To foster the development of collaborating robots, definitions and classification criteria for automation and collaboration activities are given. With these criteria at hand, it is possible to classify scientific examples from literature. On top of that, the paper introduces a prototyping framework for automated and collaborative equipment. The framework is thoroughly tested in an earthworks case study consisting of automated and collaborative excavation and compacting of an area. Through the collaboration of an automated excavator and vibratory plate, it is possible to simultaneously execute the ‘excavation’ and ‘compaction’ task, speeding up the overall earthworks process by a factor of almost two. Along with a higher productivity, the high degree of automation allows for safer work, as less workers are exposed to dangerous workspaces and the quality increases through continuous quality checking and integrated documentation of as-built data in BIM models.

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“…process model or diagram) is commonly unstable and changes according to participants' interactions . In a collaborative environment, the individual and collaborative actions are interrelated because common artifacts always result from a combination of individual and collaborative actions .…”

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The impact of the representatives of three types of process modeling tools on modeler's perceptions and performance

Polančič

Jošt

2015

J. Softw. Evol. and Proc.

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The quality of process diagrams as well as modelers' performance depends on used modeling tools, which have evolved over past years, also because of changes in software design and architecture. In our research we quantitatively and qualitatively investigated modelers' perceptions and performance when using the representatives of three types of process modeling tools in regard to type of work. A within‐subjects experiment was conducted, where we comparatively observed modelers' perceptions and modeling times when using different modeling tools. For testing the stated hypotheses, the results from 126 experimental participants were analyzed using a one‐way variance analysis. We found that modelers perform their tasks significantly faster with a web tool in case of collaborative work. In addition, we found that participants preferred desktop tool for individual modeling mostly because of its ease of use, whereas in the case of collaborative modeling, participants favored web tool's collaborative functions. Both of them outperformed the representative generic diagraming tool in all given circumstances. The results could be used as guidelines for designing future modeling tools and for modelers who are searching for the most appropriate modeling tools. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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A Technique for Evaluating Shared Workspaces Efficiency

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Just slack it: A study of multidisciplinary teamwork based on ethnography and data from online collaborative software

Just slack it: A study of multidisciplinary teamwork based on ethnography and data from online collaborative software

Cobot uptake in construction: embedding collaborative robots in digital construction processes

The impact of the representatives of three types of process modeling tools on modeler's perceptions and performance

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