CODEXII: Collaborative Design

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CODEX-II Collaborative Design Exploration

• Winslow Burleson
• 12/3/2001 ECAP

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Problem Statement

• How can a virtual space enhance the colaborative
  design process?
• Connectivity and presence
• A-synchronicity
• Motivation
• Accountability
• Authority
• Resources

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Overview of CODEX

• An Integrated Virtual Space that integrates
• Presence, Contributions, Note books,
  Presentations, time line, Progress and Success!
• A Virtual space that is responsive and
  deliberative to the goals of creativity
• Explore, Generate, Test
• Problem Solve Incubate, fluency/flexibility
• Usage..motivate (video game like elements)
• Collaboration with experts and Agents
• (skill specific and interdisciplinary)

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Some Background on DesignIssues and
Opportunities
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• 1 Strategic Planning Module  (Core of PRO) 
• Develop a Mission Statement
• Conduct a Situation Audit
• Plan for Your Strengths and Weaknesses
•  2 Speech and Presentation Module 
• Speeches and Lectures
• Sales Presentations and Business Proposals
• Management Briefings
• Business Plans
•  3 Business Grant Proposals Module 
• Overview - Thinking Things Through
• Finding the Right Prospects
• Contingency Planning
• Evaluating Your Proposal
•  4 Creative Writing Module  
• Discovering Focus/Creating Believable Characters
• Understand, Establish and Enrich Your POV
• Developing a Scene
• Creating Stories for any Genre

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•  8 Public Relations Module
• Clearly Identify the Problem
• Develop Results-Oriented Goals and Objectives
• Devise Action and Communication Strategies
• Evaluate the Results and Program Effectiveness
•  9 New Product/Service Development Module 
• Understand you Customer and Market
• Evaluate Your Concept
• 10 General Problem Solving Module (Core of  
  PRO) 
• Framing the Problem
• Clarifying the Issues
• Strategies for Solutions
•  11 Modify Module (Core of PRO) 
• Purpose/Function
• Systems/Processes/Procedures
• Action/Motion
•  12 Story Script Writing 
• Understand the Premise
• Understand Your Characters

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• The Edit Personal Associations feature allows you
  to add personal words and phrases to the
  database from your own specialized knowledge,
  unique experiences, and ideas. These can then be
  linked to the items already in the IdeaBank. You
  will find that IdeaFisher is an important tool
  for idea management, allowing you to store and
  easily reference ideas for future use. The Edit
  Personal Bank feature allows you to develop your
  specialized knowledge into sets of questions
  which then become part of the system. You can
  also distribute personal sets of questions to
  other IdeaFisher users.
• This permits managers, leaders, and other experts
  to build their own personal reference source for
  solving particular problems, and for making their
  specialized knowledge available to others. 

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Users and Transactions

• ISSUES
• Who is watching, when, what?
• Who is doing? When, what, why?
• Can we convince them to do more better!
• Can Resources be realized any and all internal
  and external.
• CREATIVITY/ MOTIVATION

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Technologies Applicable to the Design Process
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Examples

• http//www.media.mit.edu/saul/thinkcycle/webtst/i
  ndex.htm
  A collaborative design website without agent
  support, scheduling, or teams
• http//www.netmind.com/support/individual.shtml
• Web update alert agent that can notify
  users of new information
• http//wwwcssrv.almaden.ibm.com/wbi/
• Web Browser Intermediaries that can observe
  users interactions with the design space and
  augment pages to propose opportunities
• http//www.cc.gatech.edu/tomiller/7001/project2.h
  tml
• Remembrance Agents that can search text and
  correlate databases across design participants
  and on the broader internet.
• http//www.iditasport.com
• Inspirational Flash for Adventure Design
• http//www.goals.com/Index.htm
• Inspirational Web Sites for Adventurer Design

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More Examples

• http//www.mapyourmind.com/software.htm
• A software based mind mapping tool
• http//www.ideafisher.com/prod04.htm
• An idea generation software product that
  exemplifies the list of tasks involved in the
  process of many projects.

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Interface Design forOpportunities
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What Can Be Improved?

• We see process control w/o collaboration
• Very little motivation and incentives
• Up date, observation and searching technologies
  are available
• Motivational Content exists
• Some Idea Generation Tools exist

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CODEX

• Roles and Responsibilities set up by primary
  USER/s or Faculty
• Authentication Levels chosen by primary user/s.
• Authorizations including access to work spaces
• Collaborative filtering based on the level and
  authority of the contributor..
• Agents --
• just like any other users and PERVASIVE!
• Uses multiple users to make common sense
  (accurate) judgments for actions to suggest and
  interface manipulation.

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CODEX

• Log Password or Face Recognition

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Priorities
Design log
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
John solved the crank!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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Winslow Burleson Designer/Inventor Projects
Snowmobile, Hand Crank, SETI Skills
Brainstorming, Mechanical Design Work Style 11,
small groups Contact Preference Call me at
8am. Project Type Design, Adventure Level of
Involvement Complete Role Manager and Lead
Designer Motivation Travel and Adventure
Priorities
Profile
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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Project Major Goals Reasons for
Project Customer/Client/User Approach Small
design team (names/links) Time Frame and Mile
Stones Resources and Rewards
Priorities
Overview
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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Messages Waiting (email/video/sound) The
following are to be clickable links Video
Link In Person meeting Log/Schedule and
Review Live Chat (text/voice w/ Voice to Text for
agent Team meetings (including agenda update)
Priorities
Communication
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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A space to create to-do lists with
acountability To specify reviewers by skill or
specifically To check off your work To motivate
your work To keep you on task at specific
intervals To set new goals and
coordinate/evaluate Motivational factors for the
project
Priorities
Plan
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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Updated by the agent By the designer And by
others (mentors/peers) A list of to do items in
gant chart style Clickable with notes and
guidance Detailing level of quality/speed etc.
necessary
Priorities
Priorities
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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A Space to design and document To
annotated and question to send notes
from Attribution, date, links to communication On
the topic to update plan. To highlight success,
failures and need for help
Priorities
Design log 12/12
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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Scroll through Team and evaluate W/ agent
and team Recommendations Pear Reviews available
to Agent and to Mentor/Faculty This would allow
teams w/o Authority Fig. To self
evaluate Anonymously through an Agent mediating
and compiling Reports Enables on target
motivation I.e. giving an additional
tool- Skills development training Etc.
Priorities
Motivate others
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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Tools specific to the user they tailor
window They can select and use them. Ex
Review/ assist agent decisions and
actions Standard Design tools sketching CAD,
photoshop, etc. Creativity tools mind maps,
forced Morphologies, IdeaFisher, User Study
tools and plans Etc.
Priorities
Tools
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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A space to motivate the team To post
opportunities and insights A bulletin
board Announcements to users and experiments In
the design process
Priorities
Opportunities
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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Win your group is excited about the crank And
would like you to tell them more Should we
schedule a meeting?
Priorities
SHARE!
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
Communication
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1
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What an Agent Can Do?

• Track Fluency and Flexibility
• Track attention to Priorities
• Track peer assessment and give individual
  feedback as well as motivating public praise
• Objective overview with and without emotional
  bias
• Information technologies - Facilitation

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Overview of CODEX

• An Integrated Virtual Space that integrates
• Presence, Contributions, Note books,
  Presentations, time line, Progress and Success!
• A Virtual space that is responsive and
  deliberative to the goals of creativity
• Explore, Generate, Test
• Problem Solve Incubate, fluency/flexibility
• Usage..motivate (video game like elements)
• Collaboration with experts and Agents
• (skill specific and interdisciplinary)

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CODEX Collaborative Design Exploration

• Connectivity and presence, A-synchronicity,
  Motivation, Accountability, Authority, Resources,
  and Agents.
• Prosthetic for motivation and creativity and
  collaboration
• Thanks and Credit to the Think Cycle Team and
  other Web Site and Application Developers.

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Priorities
Design log
Profile
Motivate others
Overview
Tools
Communication
Opportunities
Plan
SHARE!
Brainstorming
A spreadsheet was used to analyze the motion of
this device. It would be nice to test the
mechanism using strobe photography. It would also
be good to solve the equations of motion. This
is a non-trivial problem. Energy is added
incrementally as the integral of the ellipsoid
input rotation. To solve completely one will
need to constrain the system parameters such as
frequency of rotation and arm and string lengths.
Access Level 1