Visualizing Communication Patterns in Design Teams Over Time

2019 ◽  
pp. 449-461
Author(s):  
Connor Forsythe ◽  
Nikolai Joseph ◽  
Zoe Szajnfarber ◽  
Erica Gralla
Keyword(s):  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Over Time

Product Form Evolution

2011 ◽  
pp. 499-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Muir Wood ◽  
James Moultrie ◽  
Claudia Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Consumer Perception ◽  
Product Form ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Product Forms ◽  
Over Time

Companies are coming round to the idea that function and form are complimentary factors in improving the user’s experience of a product and competing in today’s saturated consumer goods markets. However, consumer perception of form is constantly changing, and this manifests itself in the evolving forms of the products that they adopt. From clothes to cameras to cars, change in form is inevitable, and design teams must account for these trends in their product design and development strategies. Through literature, semi-structured interviews with design and trend practitioners, and an archival case study of mobile phone evolution, the authors have developed theories about the continuities that occur in product forms over time, and the forces that can disrupt this behaviour. They then go on to suggest how this view of form as evolving trajectories can benefit future product design strategies.

scholarly journals Bridging Cultural Holes in Organizations: The Dynamic Structure of Social Networks and Organizational Vocabularies Within and Across Subunits

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1292-1312
Author(s):  
Stefano Tasselli ◽  
Paola Zappa ◽  
Alessandro Lomi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Constitutive Relation ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Formal Design ◽  
Over Time

The mechanisms by which social networks and organizational vocabularies combine jointly to affect communication patterns across organizational boundaries remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we examine the mutually constitutive relation between the network ties through which organizational members communicate with each other and the vocabularies that they use to describe their organization. We suggest that the dynamic structure of social networks and organizational vocabularies is contingent on the formal design of organizational subunits. Within subunit boundaries, members who interact with each other are more likely to develop similar vocabularies over time. Interestingly, between subunits, the more two members share similar organizational vocabularies, the more likely they are to form a tie over time. We find empirical evidence for these arguments in a longitudinal study conducted among the managers of a multiunit organization. Organizational vocabularies, we suggest, may sustain communication patterns across organizational boundaries, thus bridging cultural holes within organizations.

Understanding Team Personality Evolution in Student Engineering Design Teams Using the Five Factor Model

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallie Stidham ◽  
Michelle Flynn ◽  
Joshua D. Summers ◽  
Marissa Shuffler
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Capstone Course ◽  
Peer Evaluations ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Over Time

This research explores the role of personalities in engineering design teams in a capstone course using the Five Factor Model of Personality. Specifically, the self and peer assessed personality profiles are across a semester project. After four iterations, the expectation was that peers would be better able to identify their teammates personality traits. Results show that the peer evaluations do change over time. For the factors of Openness, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness, the agreement between self and peer evaluations increased from Iteration 2 to Iteration 4. The Extraversion factor agreement increased, but not to the point where the peer and self-evaluations did not have statistically significant differences. The agreement between the self and peer evaluations for Neuroticism decreased over time. Extended results, limitations, and future work are also discussed.

scholarly journals Pola Komunikasi Humanistik antara Orang Tua dan Anak atas Dampak Negatif Bermain Online Game pada Prestasi di Sekolah Dasar

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Rahayuning Tirta Kencanawati ◽  
Lamria Raya Fitriyani
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
Over Time

Nowadays online games are played by various groups, starting with adults to the young especially children in elementary school and Mobile Legends is one online game that is played by children. However, sometimes children playing this online game over time impact their grade and achievement in school. The purpose of this research was to understand humanistic communication patterns between parents and elementary school children regarding the negative impact of playing Mobile Legends on school achievement. All information was gathered through interviews with three families whose child played Mobile Legends in total eight interviewees. The method used was descriptive qualitative and data analysis method from Miles, Huberman & Saldana. The results signified the interpersonal humanistic communication approach in two families were suitable for the five stages that are openness, empathy, supportiveness, positiveness, and equality. Whereas in one other family was not suitable for the five stages of the humanistic approach, but only the four stages and there was no equality. The results indicated the balanced split pattern of two families and the other one family refers to the unbalanced split pattern. Keywords: humanistic communication patterns, communication family, online game

scholarly journals Coordination in Design Teams as a Lens to Identifying Team Roles

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Arianne X. Collopy ◽  
Chengxi Li ◽  
Tianyi Liu ◽  
Eytan Adar ◽  
Panos Y. Papalambros
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Communication Behaviors ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Self Reports

AbstractCoordination in system design requires an interplay between different roles. In this work, we identify five design team roles that pertain to the partitioning and coordination of distributed design team tasks. The proposed characterization is based on self-reported responsibilities and communication behaviors from 109 student designers in 22 teams at the conclusion of a semester-long design project. The self-reports capture both how team members viewed their own work as well as communication patterns between team members. We leverage two representations of this data. Through text analysis, we identify keywords describing team member roles and responsibilities. Social network analysis can further distinguish roles based on team communication behaviors. Cluster analysis on both types of data identifies groups of individuals with similar characteristics. The resulting five clusters capture common roles in system design teams that simultaneously capture the diverse responsibilities and communication patterns.

When cancer cannot be cured: A qualitative study on relationship changes in couples facing advanced melanoma

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 652-663
Author(s):  
Natalie Drabe ◽  
Josef Jenewein ◽  
Steffi Weidt ◽  
Lucia Engeli ◽  
Caroline Meier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Advanced Melanoma ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Distance Regulation ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

AbstractObjective:The aim of this qualitative study was to gain a deeper understanding about couples' relationship changes over time (the first six months) after one partner is diagnosed with an incurable advanced melanoma (stage III or IV).Method:In semistructured interviews, eight patients and their partners were asked separately about potential changes in their relationship since diagnosis. The same questions were asked again six months later, but focusing on relationship changes over the preceding six months. Some 32 audiotaped interviews were analyzed applying qualitative content analysis.Results:At baseline (t1), relationship changes were mostly reported in terms of caring, closeness/distance regulation, and communication patterns. While changes in caregiving and distance/closeness regulation remained main issues at six months follow-up (t2), greater appreciation of the relationship and limitations in terms of planning spare time also emerged as major issues. Unexpectedly, 50% of patients and partners reported actively hiding their negative emotions and sorrows from their counterparts to spare them worry. Furthermore, qualitative content analysis revealed relationship changes even in those patients and partners who primarily reported no changes over the course of the disease.Significance of results:Our findings revealed a differentiated and complex picture about relationship changes over time, which also might aid in the development of support programs for couples dealing with advanced cancer, focusing on the aspects of caring, closeness/distance regulation, and communication patterns.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Formal Methods for Evaluating the Language of Preference in Engineering Design

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomonori Honda ◽  
Maria C. Yang ◽  
Andy Dong ◽  
Haifeng Ji
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Formal Methods ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Direct Evaluation ◽  
Linguistic Communication ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Design Alternatives ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

In design, as with many fields, the bases of decisions are generally not formally modeled but only talked or written about. The research problem addressed in this paper revolves around the problem of modeling the direct evaluation of design alternatives and their attributes as they are realized in linguistic communication. The question is what types of linguistic data provide the most reliable linguistic displays of preference and utility. The paper compares two formal methods for assessing a design team’s preferences for alternatives based on the team’s discussion: APPRAISAL and Preferential Probabilities from Transcripts (PPT). Results suggest that the two methods are comparable in their assessment of preferences. This paper also examines the nature of consistency in the way design teams consider the attributes of a design. Findings suggest that assessment of an attribute can change substantially over time.

Social transmission bias and the cultural evolution of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hirshleifer ◽  
Siew Hong Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Transmission ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Economic Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEvolved dispositions influence, but do not determine, how people think about economic problems. The evolutionary cognitive approach offers important insights but underweights the social transmission of ideas as a level of explanation. The need for asocialexplanation for the evolution of economic attitudes is evidenced, for example, by immense variations in folk-economic beliefs over time and across individuals.

Articulatory Generalization in Two Word-Medial, Ambisyllabic Contexts

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia I. Wolfe ◽  
Suzanne D. Blocker ◽  
Norma J. Prater
Keyword(s):  
Common View ◽  
Perceptual Salience ◽  
The Common ◽  
Unitary Concept ◽  
Over Time

Articulatory generalization of velar cognates /k/, /g/ in two phonologically disordered children was studied over time as a function of sequential word-morpheme position training. Although patterns of contextual acquisition differed, correct responses to the word-medial, inflected context (e.g., "picking," "hugging") occurred earlier and exceeded those to the word-medial, noninflected context (e.g., "bacon," "wagon"). This finding indicates that the common view of the word-medial position as a unitary concept is an oversimplification. Possible explanations for superior generalization to the word-medial, inflected position are discussed in terms of coarticulation, perceptual salience, and the representational integrity of the word.

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