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Design Brainstorming Board - To Aid Early Design Communication Independent Research, DLC– Spring 2007. Huang, Yingdan Mangalath, Praful Shao, Peng Michael. Early Phase Design. Dynamics in complex systems Deterministic chaos system: one that is bounded and sensitive to initial conditions
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Design Brainstorming Board- To Aid Early Design CommunicationIndependent Research, DLC– Spring 2007 Huang, Yingdan Mangalath, Praful Shao, Peng Michael
Early Phase Design • Dynamics in complex systems • Deterministic chaos system: one that is bounded and sensitive to initial conditions • Computationally irreducible[1] Fig.1: In deterministic systems, small changes in initial conditions can give different outcomes [1] “Complexity science in collaborative design”, Jeffrey Johnson, CoDesign, Inernational Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, Vol. 1 No. 4, Dec. 2005
Brainstorming • Brainstorming involves both idea generation and idea reduction. • The most creative, innovative ideas often result from combining multiple, seemingly unrelated ideas. • Various voting techniques may be used to prioritize the ideas created.[2] • Live brainstorming vs. Web-based brainstorming[2],[3] [2] Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach, Dean Leffingwell, Don Widrig [3] Brainstorming Groups in Context: Effectiveness in a Product Design Firm, Robert I. Sutton, Andrew Hargadon, Stanford University
Collaborative Design • Group work == Group creativity? • “big C” & “little c” creativity • Instinctively, people feel that working in a group has an advantage over working individually on many creative tasks. • However, research with laboratory groups has consistently shown that on brainstorming tasks, interacting groups actually underperforms groups of non-interacting individuals. [4] • Despite these findings, we believe that interacting work groups in organizational settings may be able to achieve high quality creative outcomes. [4] Group Creativity: Innovation Through Collaboration, Edited by Paul B. Paulus and Bernard A. Nijstad
Private Spaces 3-ary relation(triangle) 3-ary relation (triangle) 4-ary relation (tetrahedron) Public Space
Exploring DBB Models • Notions of DBB • Flexible and dynamic meeting time and relationship • Public – Private – Semi Private space • Design is an iterative “Top-down” and “bottom-up” process • Divergent/Convergent issue • https://webfiles.colorado.edu/huangy/www/myApplet.html
Current Situation Idea… Generation? Reduction? Images Multimedia Web-based Brainstorming Conferencing File Sharing
Example 1: Thinkature • Single online workspace. • Text chat, voice chat, uploads, sketches. • Associations (aka. relations).
Example 2: Skrbl • Private and Public workspaces. • Notes, sketches, sharing images and files.
Example 3: GroupScribbles • Simultaneous Private and Public workspaces. • Flexible backgrounds, representations.
Example 4: Vyew • Conferences, streaming. • Documents for review. • Multiple sessions. • Versioning.
Example n……. Things really haven’t evolved beyond the whiteboard!
Pretty and flash and all that web 2.0 Jazz but … • Can they really aid in early design communication? • Wiki Driven Brainstorming - simple - enhanced wiki and issue tracking systems alreadu used for software development projects (trac) - what features can we add to supplement idea- generation and reduction? • Mindmapping – freemind, http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ • Synchronous editing + whiteboard - something simple and clean ,http://jsolait.net/wiki/examples/jsonrpc/canvas