Personal Electronic Notebook with Sharing

Hong, Jack; Toye, George; Leifer, Larry

doi:10.1109/enabl.1995.484552

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“…Because digital media are easily copied and sent over large distances, many research projects bring digital media to design journals to facilitate sharing or distributed collaboration. The Personal Electronic Notebook With Sharing (Hong et al, 1995) was developed to facilitate sharing design knowledge over the Internet with remote collaborators.…”

Section: Sharing and Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tangible interactions in a digital age: Medium and graphic visualization in design journals

Oehlberg

Lau

Agogino

2009

AIEDAM

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Designers are interacting with an increasing number of digital tools in their design process; however, these are usually in addition to the traditional and ubiquitous paper-based design journals. This paper explores the medium of informal design information and its relationships with sketching behavior over three stages of the design process: preliminary investigation and user needs analyses, concept generation and development, and prototyping and testing. Our test bed consists of tangible, digital, and hybrid design journals collected from four semesters of UC Berkeley's graduate level, multidisciplinary course titled "Managing the New Product Development Process: Design Theory and Methods." We developed protocols for two categories of analysis: one that codes for the media type of each journal and its content, and another one that characterizes the content within the journal. We found a trend toward hybrid digital-tangible journals for the engineering students over the 4-year period. These hybrid journals exhibited a higher degree of detail over advancing design stages, which has been shown to correlate with improved project performance. We also present several case studies of unusual design journals that illustrate the range of designers' interpretations of design journals as a medium. Based on this descriptive research, features for interactive hybrid tangible-digital design journals are recommended.

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Section: Sharing and Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tangible interactions in a digital age: Medium and graphic visualization in design journals

Oehlberg

Lau

Agogino

2009

AIEDAM

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“…A number of researchers have studied electronic notebook use in the context of personal (Erickson, 1996 andWilcox et al, 1996) and design (Lakin et al, 1992 andHong et al, 1995) note taking. In Dynomite (Wilcox et al, 1996) properties describing type of information could be assigned to handwritten notes and user-defined keywords to pages.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The author noted that cognitive overhead associated with applying stamps prevented them from being used in practice. Personal Electronic Notebook with Sharing (Hong et al, 1995) supported note taking, browsing, and sharing notes through the Internet. Structuring notes was performed by assigning user defined categories.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Categorization is Difficult: Use of an Electronic Notebook for Organizing Design Meeting Notes

Gwizdka

1998

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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The electronic engineering notebook is a pen-based computer tool designed to capture engineering notes and to assist in structuring them to facilitate subsequent information access. Experiments were conducted in which free-form and fixed-form note-taking interfaces were compared with respect to capturing and structuring notes from a design meeting. Suitability of domain-based and user-defined terminologies for semantic structuring was also tested. Results from the experiment confirmed that a free-form interface was easier to use for note-taking and structuring notes than were forms with fixed structure. However, difficulties with applying semantic categorizations were observed in both types of interface. The results indicated that terminology should be chosen appropriately to a task, and that experienced users have less problems with applying it. The experiment also demonstrated high diversity in note-taking styles, thus highlighting the need to accommodate individual preferences in electronic notebooks.

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“…While existing research has analyzed the role of personal design journals in facilitating student reflection [7], web-based tools have introduced powerful features for collaboration and have become increasingly important for project teams to communicate their work both internally and externally [8][9][10][11]. The uptake of documentation platforms such as wikis is aligned with the emergence and popularity of social media that create opportunities for people to share user-generated content [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Documentation in Progress: Challenges With Representing Design Process Online

Tseng

Yang

Ruthmann

2014

Volume 3: 16th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 11th International Conference on Design Education; 7t

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Web-based documentation platforms afford lightweight and visually rich mechanisms for designers to share documentation online, yet present challenges regarding representation, particularly for collaborative teams. This paper highlights some of these issues through a descriptive case study based on the use of a new web-based social media tool for documenting the development of design projects called Build in Progress. Undergraduate students worked in teams to design musical construction kits and documented their process using Build in Progress over the course of three weeks. We examined students' project pages to determine trends with how students visually represented their design process, and we gathered students' experiences using the platform through surveys and interviews with select project teams. We found that groups developed their own representations of their design process via tree structures afforded by Build in Progress that present the simultaneous development of distinct elements of their projects and highlight the contributions of each student on the team. The interviews revealed differences between how internal and external documentation are presented and contrasting approaches to creating narrative and instructional documentation based on the intended audience. In particular, we found that students interpreted the tool as one used to help others recreate their design, which led to the omission of several parts of their design process, including experimentation and mistakes. These results suggest the need to further develop tools to support reflection on process rather than product.

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Personal Electronic Notebook with Sharing

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Tangible interactions in a digital age: Medium and graphic visualization in design journals

Tangible interactions in a digital age: Medium and graphic visualization in design journals

Categorization is Difficult: Use of an Electronic Notebook for Organizing Design Meeting Notes

Documentation in Progress: Challenges With Representing Design Process Online

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