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Untangling Design Meetings: Artefacts as Input and Output of Design Activities

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Marisela Gutierrez Lopez,

Karin ConinxAuthors Info & Claims

ECCE '17: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics

Pages 176 - 183

https://doi.org/10.1145/3121283.3121311

Published: 19 September 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Design meetings with multidisciplinary stakeholders are instrumental for design projects. However, design teams face the challenges of synthetizing large amounts of information, often in a limited time, and with minimal common ground. We investigate these challenges through in-the-wild observations of six design meetings in three different projects, with professional design teams that follow a user-centered design methodology. We found that all the observed design meetings had a similar structure consisting of particular phases, in which design activities were organized around artefacts. These artefacts were used as input to disseminate and gather feedback of previous design outcomes, or as output to collect and process a variety of perspectives. From these findings, we synthetize practical guidelines to optimize artefact-based interactions during design meetings.

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Soria ALopez TSeero EMashhadi NEvans EBurge JVan der Hoek ARoychoudhury APaiva AAbreu RStorey M(2024)Characterizing Software Maintenance Meetings: Information Shared, Discussion Outcomes, and Information CapturedProceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering10.1145/3597503.3623330(1-13)Online publication date: 20-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3597503.3623330
Bedingfield CClarkson P(2020)DESIGN MEETINGS: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE STAGES AND ACTIVITIES THAT INFLUENCE SUCCESSProceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference10.1017/dsd.2020.3341(501-510)Online publication date: 11-Jun-2020
https://doi.org/10.1017/dsd.2020.334
Gutierrez Lopez MRovelo GHaesen MLuyten KConinx K(2017)Capturing Design Decision Rationale with Decision CardsHuman-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 201710.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_29(463-482)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_29

Index Terms

Untangling Design Meetings: Artefacts as Input and Output of Design Activities
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing

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Soria ALopez TSeero EMashhadi NEvans EBurge JVan der Hoek ARoychoudhury APaiva AAbreu RStorey M(2024)Characterizing Software Maintenance Meetings: Information Shared, Discussion Outcomes, and Information CapturedProceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering10.1145/3597503.3623330(1-13)Online publication date: 20-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3597503.3623330
Bedingfield CClarkson P(2020)DESIGN MEETINGS: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE STAGES AND ACTIVITIES THAT INFLUENCE SUCCESSProceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference10.1017/dsd.2020.3341(501-510)Online publication date: 11-Jun-2020
https://doi.org/10.1017/dsd.2020.334
Gutierrez Lopez MRovelo GHaesen MLuyten KConinx K(2017)Capturing Design Decision Rationale with Decision CardsHuman-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 201710.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_29(463-482)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_29

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