Viewpoints in co-design: a field study in concurrent engineering

Détienne, Françoise; Martin, Géraldine; Lavigne, Elisabeth

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2004.08.002

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“…We also conducted a content analysis (Barcellini et al, 2005) similar to previous studies in cognitive psychology and ergonomics of collaborative design activity (Olson et al, 1992;Herbsleb et al, 1995;De´tienne et al, 2004De´tienne et al, , 2005D'Astous et al, 2004;Stempfle and Badke-Schaube, 2004). The typical activities we identified were elaboration, evaluation, grounding and coordination.…”

Section: Dynamics Of the Design Process And Organizational Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

A Methodological Framework for Socio-Cognitive Analyses of Collaborative Design of Open Source Software

Sack

Détienne

Ducheneaut

et al. 2006

Comput Supported Coop Work

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Open Source Software (OSS) development challenges traditional software engineering practices. In particular, OSS projects are managed by a large number of volunteers, working freely on the tasks they choose to undertake. OSS projects also rarely rely on explicit system-level design, or on project plans or schedules. Moreover, OSS developers work in arbitrary locations and collaborate almost exclusively over the Internet, using simple tools such as email and software code tracking databases (e.g. CVS).All the characteristics above make OSS development akin to weaving a tapestry of heterogeneous components. The OSS design process relies on various types of actors: people with prescribed roles, but also elements coming from a variety of information spaces (such as email and software code). The objective of our research is to understand the specific hybrid weaving accomplished by the actors of this distributed, collective design process. This, in turn, challenges traditional methodologies used to understand distributed software engineering: OSS development is simply too ''fibrous'' to lend itself well to analysis under a single methodological lens.In this paper, we describe the methodological framework we articulated to analyze collaborative design in the Open Source world. Our framework focuses on the links between the heterogeneous components of a project's hybrid network. We combine ethnography, text mining, and socio-technical network analysis and visualization to understand OSS development in its totality. This way, we are able to simultaneously consider the social, technical, and cognitive aspects of OSS development. We describe our methodology in detail, and discuss its implications for future research on distributed collective practices.

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Section: Dynamics Of the Design Process And Organizational Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

A Methodological Framework for Socio-Cognitive Analyses of Collaborative Design of Open Source Software

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Détienne

Ducheneaut

et al. 2006

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“…De´tienne et al (2005) characterise such barriers by distinguishing between discipline-independent and discipline-specific constraints. Discipline-specific constraints can occur where the same words that are used with a collaborative conversation have different meanings between the participants' respective disciplines.…”

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Professional perspectives on collaborative design work

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2012

CoDesign

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Collaboration has become more important owing to the challenges designers face to compete in fast-paced global markets. Designers need to capitalise on the strengths of different stakeholders to develop shared knowledge and practices to better deal with the complexity of problems facing society today. This study builds on research concerning social processes in design activity through exploring professional designers' perspectives on the significance of collaboration in their work. Twenty-three semi-structured in-context interviews were conducted with professional designers from 13 different professional specialisations. The interview data were analysed using a grounded theory interpretive approach. The insights developed from the analysis suggest that the development of support for collaborative design should target not only methods of solving design problems, but also informal and social interactions that bring together different stakeholders while respecting their differences. Further research in this area would enhance the effectiveness of collaboration and increase designers' ability to participate in the early stages of product development for complex problems.

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“…Olson et al, 1992;Stempfle and Badke-Schaub, 2002;De´tienne et al, 2004De´tienne et al, , 2005. Studying OSS is also of particular interest to gain insights into supporting the changing nature of the software industry, which is increasingly making use of OSS design's tools and methods as it becomes more and more distributed and global (Gutwin et al, 2004).…”

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User and developer mediation in an Open Source Software community: Boundary spanning through cross participation in online discussions

Barcellini

Détienne

Burkhardt

2008

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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The aim of this research is to analyse how design and use are mediated in Open Source Software (OSS) design. Focusing on the Python community, our study examines a ''pushed-by-users'' design proposal through the discussions occurring in two mailing-lists: one, useroriented and the other, developer-oriented. To characterize the links between users and developers, we investigate the activities and references (knowledge sharing) performed by the contributors to these two mailing-lists. We found that the participation of users remains local to their community. However, several key participants act as boundary spanners between the user and the developer communities. This emerging role is characterized by cross-participation in parallel same-topic discussions in both mailing-lists, cohesion between crossparticipants, the occupation of a central position in the social network linking users and developers, as well as active, distinctive and adapted contributions. The user championing the proposal acts as a key boundary spanner coordinating the process and using explicit linking strategies. We argue that OSS design may be considered as a form of ''role emerging design'', i.e. design organized and pushed through emerging roles and through a balance between these roles. The OSS communities seem to provide a suitable socio-technical environment to enable such role emergence. r

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Viewpoints in co-design: a field study in concurrent engineering

Cited by 41 publications

References 12 publications

A Methodological Framework for Socio-Cognitive Analyses of Collaborative Design of Open Source Software

A Methodological Framework for Socio-Cognitive Analyses of Collaborative Design of Open Source Software

Professional perspectives on collaborative design work

User and developer mediation in an Open Source Software community: Boundary spanning through cross participation in online discussions

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