A STUDY ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED DESIGN MEETING ENVIRONMENT : Design meeting analysis and proposition of meeting support system

Abstract

Face-to-face design meeting is essential to collaboration in any stage of design process. Although personal design environment is well computerized, meeting environment is not fully supported by information technologies. For this purpose, in this study, we observed the information treated at the meetings in a design competition. Based on this observation, we made clear the several problems in dealing with information in design meeting. In order to solve these problems, we developed a design meeting environment which includes hardware and software. Pinup walls, meeting table, white board are metaphors on the proposed system. Members could concentrate on discussing design issues without interruptions caused by looking for some lost information, preparing design models or documents at their desks.