Publication: Desarrollo de un entorno para el diseño colaborativo
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2013-07-09
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2013-07-09
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El presente trabajo fin de grado se desarrolla dentro del contexto del co-diseño. El concepto de co-diseño puede definirse como “un proceso de colaboración creativa entre diseñadores y personas, los cuáles no poseen una formación previa en diseño, con el propósito de resolver problemas significativos”. Dentro de este contexto, en los últimos tiempos, ha surgido una tendencia de desarrollo de herramientas tecnológicas que mejoren dicho proceso de diseño. Sin embargo, el soporte a los procesos de co-diseño llevados a cabo de manera distribuida y/o síncrona supone un desafío a encarar.
En ocasiones, es necesario que este proceso de co-diseño pueda ser realizado de manera distribuida, con el fin de facilitar la participación de las personas desde diferentes lugares. De manera similar, existe la necesidad de obtener recursos de diseño de manera remota. En particular, los participantes en el proceso de co-diseño pueden querer obtener recursos multimedia aunque estos no se encuentren en el mismo espacio de diseño. De acuerdo a esto, es necesario asistir al proceso de co-diseño de manera distribuida y asegurar que, en ambos casos, existe una coordinación durante el acceso a los datos.
A fin de solventar dicha problemática, el presente trabajo fin de grado provee un entorno tecnológico que soporta el proceso de co-diseño. Concretamente, las contribuciones de este proyecto versan tanto sobre la asistencia a la creación de diagramas de afinidad de manera distribuida, como sobre la recogida de información multimedia de forma remota. Con este propósito, en este proyecto se extiende la funcionalidad de la herramienta de diseño ColDes, permitiendo al usuario crear un nuevo tipo de sala de diseño que soporta la creación de diagramas de afinidad de manera distribuida. Ahora, los participantes pueden crear y compartir ideas de diseño añadiendo ítems de información relacionados con el problema establecido en el proceso de diseño. Estos ítems de información pueden ser organizados en grupos de ideas similares que sean significativos para la resolución del problema. De esta manera, se obtiene una representación visual del primer esbozo de la solución de diseño. Con el objetivo de permitir la obtención de recursos multimedia de manera remota, se ha desarrollado una aplicación móvil. Los participantes pueden tomar fotografías y vídeos desde cualquier lugar y añadirlos a los diagramas de afinidad. Estos recursos se pueden utilizar para afianzar las ideas plasmadas en el diagrama de afinidad, ya que es posible asociarlos a los ítems de información creados en los workspace de diagrama de afinidad de ColDes.
Toda la información que se maneja en el sistema de ColDes es persistente. El usuario puede guardar en todo momento el estado de un diagrama de afinidad y cargarlo posteriormente para continuar con el trabajo. El usuario, por tanto, puede realizar su trabajo en los diagramas de afinidad de manera discontinúa. Dado que varios usuarios pueden acceder al mismo tiempo a los recursos del sistema, existen políticas de colaboración que aseguran la consistencia de los datos en los casos en los que el proceso se realiza de manera distribuida y/o síncrona.
This final project is framed within the context of co-design. The concept of co-design can be defined as “a process of creative collaboration between designers and people, which have no previous training in design, in order to solve meaningful problems”. Within this context, there exists a recent trend of development of technological tools that improve the process of design. However, the support of the co-design processes carried out in a distributed and/or synchronous manner presents a challenge to be solved. It is often necessary that this process of co-design can be performed in a distributed manner in order to facilitate the participation of people from different locations. Similarly, there is a need to obtain design resources remotely. In particular, the participants may want to get multimedia resources even if these are not in the same design space. Accordingly, it is necessary to assist the co-design process in a distributed manner and to ensure that, in both cases, there is a need of coordination for the data access. In order to address these requirements, this final project provides a technological environment that supports the co-design process. In particular, the contributions of this project are related to both the assistance of building affinity diagrams in a distributed manner and collecting multimedia information remotely. With this purpose, this project extends the functionality of a design tool called ColDes by allowing to create a new type of design room that support the creation of affinity diagrams in a distributed manner. The participants can now create and share design ideas by adding information item related to the problem established in the design process. These information items can be organized into groups of similar ideas that are meaningful to the resolution of the problem. In this way, it is obtained a visual representation of the first draft of the design solution. Aiming at allowing obtaining multimedia resources remotely, it has been developed a mobile application. The participants can take photos and videos from anywhere and add them to the affinity diagram. These resources can be used to reinforce ideas of the affinity diagram, since it is possible to associate them to the information items created in the affinity diagram workspace of ColDes. To conclude, all the information stored in the ColDes system has been made persistent. The participants can save an affinity diagram at any time, and recover it later to continue the design. They, therefore, can perform their work in an affinity diagram in a discontinued manner. Since several users can simultaneously access the system resources, some collaboration policies have been introduced to ensure the consistency of the data in cases where the process is performed in a distributed and/or synchronous manner.
This final project is framed within the context of co-design. The concept of co-design can be defined as “a process of creative collaboration between designers and people, which have no previous training in design, in order to solve meaningful problems”. Within this context, there exists a recent trend of development of technological tools that improve the process of design. However, the support of the co-design processes carried out in a distributed and/or synchronous manner presents a challenge to be solved. It is often necessary that this process of co-design can be performed in a distributed manner in order to facilitate the participation of people from different locations. Similarly, there is a need to obtain design resources remotely. In particular, the participants may want to get multimedia resources even if these are not in the same design space. Accordingly, it is necessary to assist the co-design process in a distributed manner and to ensure that, in both cases, there is a need of coordination for the data access. In order to address these requirements, this final project provides a technological environment that supports the co-design process. In particular, the contributions of this project are related to both the assistance of building affinity diagrams in a distributed manner and collecting multimedia information remotely. With this purpose, this project extends the functionality of a design tool called ColDes by allowing to create a new type of design room that support the creation of affinity diagrams in a distributed manner. The participants can now create and share design ideas by adding information item related to the problem established in the design process. These information items can be organized into groups of similar ideas that are meaningful to the resolution of the problem. In this way, it is obtained a visual representation of the first draft of the design solution. Aiming at allowing obtaining multimedia resources remotely, it has been developed a mobile application. The participants can take photos and videos from anywhere and add them to the affinity diagram. These resources can be used to reinforce ideas of the affinity diagram, since it is possible to associate them to the information items created in the affinity diagram workspace of ColDes. To conclude, all the information stored in the ColDes system has been made persistent. The participants can save an affinity diagram at any time, and recover it later to continue the design. They, therefore, can perform their work in an affinity diagram in a discontinued manner. Since several users can simultaneously access the system resources, some collaboration policies have been introduced to ensure the consistency of the data in cases where the process is performed in a distributed and/or synchronous manner.
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Desarrollo de software, Entornos colaborativos, Co-diseño, Aplicaciones móviles, Proyectos de software