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DOES IT MATTER WHERE DESIGN TEAMS COME FROM IN DESIGN STUDIES?
PROCEEDINGS OF ASME 2021 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, IDETC-CIE2021, VOL 6, v 6, 006
01 Jan 2021
Abstract
Professionals need to collaborate with multiple stakeholders in product development to stay competitive and to innovate. Through their values and mission, companies develop a specific working environment that can lead to the development of design methods and tools. In this article, we study design team dynamics of professional engineers working in two different organizations. We aim at identifying differences in team behaviors between teams drawn from two different organizations. The goal is twofold. At a theoretical level, we aim at gaining a better understanding of the effect of work culture on design team behaviors. At a methodological level, we explore whether grouping teams from different organizations into a single larger sample to obtain better reliability is relevant. To do this, we compared two cohorts of teams based on which company engineers worked at. Both companies are international organizations employing more than 50,000 collaborators worldwide. Teams of three engineers worked on designing a next-generation personal assistant and entertainment system for the year 2025. We analyzed each team's design interactions and behaviors using quantitative tools (Multiple Factor Analysis and Correspondence Analysis). Results from this exploratory analysis highlight different behaviors between cohorts as well as a common overall approach to team design thinking.
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- Title
- DOES IT MATTER WHERE DESIGN TEAMS COME FROM IN DESIGN STUDIES?
- Creators
- Julie Milovanovic - Virginia TechJohn Gero - University of North Carolina at CharlotteKurt Becker - Utah State UniversityAMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
- Publication Details
- PROCEEDINGS OF ASME 2021 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, IDETC-CIE2021, VOL 6, v 6, 006
- Publisher
- Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- 1761774; 1762415 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001224354000030
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85119985988
- Other Identifier
- 991022157487304721