Although much effort has been invested to build applications that support group
work, collaborative applications have not found easy success. The cost of adopting and
maintaining collaborative applications has prevented their widespread use, especially
among small distributed groups. Application developers have had difficulties recognizing
the extra effort required by groups to use collaborative applications and how to either
reduce this effort or provide other benefits to compensate for the extra work. These
problems have limited the success of collaborative applications, which have not attained
the same level of productivity improvements that single user applications have achieved. In
this thesis we present a framework that describes the types of computer support that can
facilitate the work of distributed engineering design groups. Our framework addresses
support for web-based groups in particular because we believe the web can be a powerful
medium for collaboration if accommodated properly. We show how the concepts in this
framework can be implemented by prototyping a web-based engineering decision support
system. Our framework is a synthesis of ideas motivated by an examination of literature in
various fields that share a common interest in collaborative work. It can influence
application development by helping developers become aware of the types of support
should be considered to aid web-based collaborative design. / Graduation date: 1997
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/34516 |
| Date | 05 December 1996 |
| Creators | Gottfried, Shikha Ghosh |
| Contributors | D'Ambrosio, Bruce |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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