Digital Collaboration Hubs for Spatial Planning and Design Teams

Abstract

Collaborative teamwork is critical to the success of design and planning teams in dynamic contexts. Research on fostering creative and innovative processes in teams has so far focused either on physical settings, or then on technical IT solutions that support specific, creative processes such as brainstorming.

The research project closes this gap with a transdisciplinary focus on the interaction of spatial, technical and team-based factors. From a technological perspective, mixed reality opens up new potentials for collaborative team episodes especially with respect to joint viewing, manipulation and creation of 3D objects.

In the context of a team-centered requirements analysis, critical design factors for collaboration hubs regarding team collaboration, shared objects and environments will be identified. Based on these findings, prototypes are developed and will be evaluated in business contexts.