Home // International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, volume 9, numbers 1 and 2, 2016 // View article

Analysis of Collaborative Design through Action Research: Methodology and Tools

Authors:
Samia Ben Rajeb
Pierre Leclercq

Keywords: collaborative design; methodologies and tools for collaborative activity analysis; visualization of collaborative processes; collaborative action-research project

Abstract:
Analysing collective design activities is a complex task, especially in a context that involves the remote collaboration and/or multidisciplinarity. To support such an analysis, this article describes a dedicated process, instrumented by tools that can facilitate the data acquisition and visualization, and implemented in various contexts of higher education. The method presented here enables to cross-reference the two aspects of a collective activity: the process and the content treated by a group. The method offers the possibility to analyse different types of collective work configurations with a high level of flexibility that leaves the possibility to the researcher to update his/her analysis criteria even during the observed activity.

Pages: 199 to 212

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679