THE iLOFT PROJECT: A TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN WORKSPACE AS RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
Andrew Milne, Terry Winograd · 2003
For the past two years, the authors have been working to address the challenges of collecting data on design teams by creating a family of workspaces that design teams can utilize while researchers study their activity. A first iteration in this endeavor was the Design Observatory[1], which provided a space in which researchers could structured experiments with design teams. The latest of these spaces, the iLoft, is designed to attract designers to a suite of advanced collaboration and information technologies they can use in their regular work, and thereby provide greater opportunity to study their activity during design.