| Title | Using Web 2.0-Based Groupware to Facilitate Collaborative Design in Engineering Education Scheme Projects |
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| Authors | Evans, R.D., Gao, J.X., Martin, N. and Simmonds, C. |
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| Type | Conference paper |
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| Abstract | Employee collaboration is vital for manufacturing organisations wishing to be successful in an ever-changing global market place; it is commonly referred to as the joining of people and interests to meet a common goal via visual or oral interaction, information and knowledge sharing and the coordination of tasks; product development teams operating within the aerospace and defence industry rely extensively on this. To this end, the purpose of this paper is to present the results of a validation study carried out during an Engineering Education Scheme (EES) project initiated by a leading aerospace and defence manufacturing organisation, to confirm the benefits of using bespoke Web 2.0-based groupware to improve employee collaboration between dispersed teams. The results of a cross-sectional survey concluded that employees in the collaborating organisations would welcome greater usage of Web 2.0-based technologies. The study confirmed that groupware offers the potential to deliver a more effective collaborative environment with additional communication channels on offer to end users. |
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| Keywords | Collaboration |
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| Web 2.0 |
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| Product Development |
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| Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing |
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| Engineering Education |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Conference | International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning |
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| Publisher | IEEE |
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| ISBN | 9781479944385 |
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| Funder | .Other external funder (add details in Notes below) |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL.2014.7017805 |
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| Web address (URL) of conference proceedings | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7002490 |
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