Preparing undergraduate students for work in virtual product development teams

Žavbi, Roman; Tavčar, Jože

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2004.02.007

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“…It was already shown in virtual teams composed exclusively of students [12] that virtual communication within a development team does not impair the results of development. Rather, it enables an interdisciplinary approach and participation of students from different cultural, language and social environments [13].…”

Section: Team Formationmentioning

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Development of an automatic marketplace using virtual collaboration

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Original scientific paper New product development is vital for the development of business enterprises and the society where the enterprise operates. The paper presents a case example of an automated marketplace development, which took place in the P-ino d.o.o. company. Developing such a complex product required the participation of experts from different areas, and it included also students, who definitely contributed to greater creativity and openness of the development team. More than 85 % of all the communication within the development team took place in virtual form. Testing of the finished prototype was also more or less virtual. Virtual communication in the development of such a complex product as an automated marketplace proved to be a very suitable method of interpersonal communication within the development team in all development phases of the product. It was particularly efficient because the members of the development team had different skills and were coming from different institutions and companies. Keywords: communication; industrial application; virtual product development team Razvoj automatizirane tržnice pomoću virtualne suradnjeIzvorni znanstveni članak Razvoj novog proizvoda od bitne je važnosti za razvoj poslovnih poduzeća i za društvenu zajednicu u kojoj poduzeće djeluje. U radu se daje opis razvoja automatizirane tržnice u poduzeću P-ino d.o.o. Razvoj takvog složenog proizvoda zahtijevao je sudjelovanje stručnjaka iz različitih područja, a također je uključio i studente, koji su sigurno pridonijeli većoj kreativnosti i otvorenosti razvojnog tima. Više od 85 % ukupne komunikacije razvojnog tima odvijao se u virtualnom obliku. Ispitivanje završnog prototipa također je bilo više manje virtualno. Virtualna komunikacija u razvoju tako složenog proizvoda kao što je automatizirana tržnica dokazala se kao vrlo pogodna metoda za međusobnu komunikaciju razvojnog tima u svim razvojnim fazama proizvoda. Bila je posebno učinkovita jer su članovi razvojnog tima posjedovali različite vještine i dolazili iz različitih institucija i poduzeća.Ključne riječi: industrijska primjena; komunikacija; virtualni tim za razvoj proizvoda

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Section: Team Formationmentioning

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Development of an automatic marketplace using virtual collaboration

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“…The organization and size of a VDS depend on the number of projects, the number of participants, the type of digital media and tools used, and the duration of the project. The purposes and objectives of these VDS can be divided into three categories: (1) campus usage, which provides support to design courses and design information communications (Budd et al 1999;Craig and Zimring 2000); (2) design collaboration usage, which provides a platform for school-toschool or country-to-country design collaboration, thereby providing an opportunity for students and teachers to work with other students or experts in other environments (Brusasco et al 2000;Dave and Danahy 2000;Elger and Russell 2003;Kolarevic et al 2000); and (3) multidisciplinary collaboration which focuses on interdisciplinary design collaboration and provides a platform for integrating students with experts from different fields (Ž avbi and Tavčar 2005). According to their degree of use of the Internet (World Wide Web), the Internet-mediated courses can be divided into different levels, from those that provide only basic course information to those that put all course content and course interaction online.…”

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Student response to an Internet-mediated industrial design studio course

Chen

You

2008

Int J Technol Des Educ

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The purpose of this study is to investigate student attitudes towards and perceptions of using the Internet and information technology to mediate a design studio course and to propose guidelines and suggestions for developing Internet-mediated design studio courses. Two classes of third-year undergraduate industrial design students in two collaborating universities in Taiwan-Chang Gung University and National Yunlin University of Science and Technology-participated in an experimental design studio course mediated with an online design learning environment. Surveys and focus group interviews were conducted at the end of the course to record students' attitudes and perceptions. The students thought that the approach used had a positive influence on design teaching and learning and expressed acceptance of using the Internet to support design education. Finally, suggestions were proposed to help design educators in adopting, modifying, and developing systems for using the Internet to mediate design studio courses.

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“…Related work involving distance learning or remote experiments can be found for example in [1]- [5][8] [9]. However, these reports either involve entirely virtual setups [2]- [4] [8], real distant setups with no operators in proximity [9] or synchronous collaboration between students and a professor [3][4] for the transmission of knowledge.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent trends on the global market also lead companies to integrate similar tools up to their higher management, providing them with an almost real-time feed of plant performance and production. This proves to be a significant advantage for industries in an everchanging business environment [5][6] [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%