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Authors:
Samia Ben Rajeb
Shima Shirkhodaei
Pierre Leclercq
Keywords: groupware; appropriation and tools uses; semiotcs; aspectuality; computer human interaction
Abstract:
This article presents a methodology of analyzing the appropriation of groupware in the context of collaborative design via the idea of aspectuality (punctual, iterative, durable, inchoative, and terminative), well known in the field of Greimassien semiotics. This idea guides us in the definition and the categorization of the modes of appropriation of tools, as well as the passage from one tool to another during a collaborative activity. To do this, our research focuses on the study of an innovative device, associating two tools for remote synchronous collaborative design: HIS (Space Hybrid Ideation of Hybridlab), and SkeSha (Sketch system of sharing from LUCID-ULg). These two tools enable the annotation of graphical objects in real time. HIS enables immersion into the interior of a virtual representation of a designed space, the other (SketSha) enables the possibility to share and to act on the 2D documents. In our experiments, these two tools were associated to form a system enabling two groups of student designers to work together remotely and in real time. Two questions came up in this original experimental situation: the first concerns the singularity of each tool and the second touches on the degree of compatibility of the two devices making up a system for synchronous exchange and collaboration. To answer these questions, we will describe the experimental protocol put in place in the simultaneous use of these two tools. Then, we will present our methodology of analyzing the data based on self-analysis as well as the qualitative and quantitative treatment of the data put to work in the experiments. Finally, we explain in detail in which manner the two devices are complimentary and can be articulated in the preliminary phases of architectural design.
Pages: 55 to 67
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2018
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ISSN: 1942-2679