Remote concept design from an activity theory perspective

Tuomo Tuikka

doi:10.1145/587103.587105

Remote concept design from an activity theory perspective

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University of Oulu

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This paper presents product concept design situations that occurred in computer aided concept design workshops. These situations were analysed using the concepts of activity theory to show how designers convey their understanding across distance. From this analysis, hypothetical user activity can be identified as an instrument of collaborative construction during design action. It is a common design object and mediates between the designers along with the future artifact. In order to support designers, future computer systems should therefore bridge the gap between physical and virtual design spaces. The concept of hypothetical user activity can be a means to organize such a system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, CSCW'02
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery ACM
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-58113-560-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/587103.587105
Publication status	Published - 2002
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication

Keywords

Activity theory
Concept design
Instrument
Remote collaboration
Virtual prototype

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