Computer-supported environment for creativity processes in globally distributed teams
Christoph Ganser, Thomas Kennel, Nils Rune Birkeland, Andreas M. Kunz · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2005
Today's products are characterized by an ever-increasing amount of complexity and multidisciplinarity.Companies, focusing on their core competences, face that problem by an increased amount of interdisciplinary work between internal and external partners.This global product development results in a large effort for traveling and thus increases the product development time and costs.Since there isn't any technological means that satisfactorily fulfills the requirements of a synchronous, net-based teamwork, this paper shows a first attempt so solve this problem.Beside the usual video and audio connection between networked partners, it is also possible to simultaneously write and sketch on a common workspace, integrating also the collocated partners of a session.