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Economical ‘intelligent’ technologies emerging from the fields of electrical engineering, materials science, and computer science are making product design an increasingly multidisciplinary activity. Collaboration among discipline specialists is particularly important in the early phases of the design process, when alternative technology strategies are considered and initial solution approaches are planned. In the design context for this research project, subjects were asked to consider not only the design of new technologies, but the incorporation of these technologies into physical spaces to support new forms of human interactions - clearly an ambiguous, and complex, design challenge.
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Milne, A.J. (2000). Analysing the Activity of Multidisciplinary Teams in the Early Stages of Conceptual Design: Method and Measures. In: Scrivener, S.A.R., Ball, L.J., Woodcock, A. (eds) Collaborative Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0779-8_28
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