Shared Visualizations in Support of Distributed Creative Communities

The paper is concerned with support for distributed groups of creative knowledge workers: in this case designers. We consider requirements that designers have regarding internalisation and externalisation of ideas and concepts as well as requirements relating to collaboration. We review an online...

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Main Authors: Alastair Weakley, Ernest Edmonds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Australasian Association for Information Systems 2004-05-01
Series:Australasian Journal of Information Systems
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Online Access:http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/130
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Summary:The paper is concerned with support for distributed groups of creative knowledge workers: in this case designers. We consider requirements that designers have regarding internalisation and externalisation of ideas and concepts as well as requirements relating to collaboration. We review an online system whose facilities for the graphical representation of data were found to be popular. The evaluation was in the context of a group task and the results, including instances of tacit knowledge sharing, have led us to formulate a number of recommendations as to how such systems might be made still more effective for collaborative working.
ISSN:1449-8618
1449-8618