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Early Stage Creative Design Collaboration: A Survey of Current Practice

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In an effort to gain a deeper understanding of how to better facilitate creative collaboration during early stage design activities, a survey and a number of interviews were undertaken to determine current practice in this field. A key aim of this research was to review how tools and technologies are currently used to support collaborative creativity and problem solving in design. The outcome is an overview of early stage activities, the environments in which they are currently carried out, and the role of tools and technologies within them.

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  1. Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City University London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    Paul Bermudez

  2. Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TZ, UK

    Sara Jones

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Jean-Bernard Martens

  3. Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Julian Malins

  4. Expertise Centre for DigitalMedia, Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Diepenbeek, Belgium

    Karin Coninx

  5. Markopoulou-Peania Avenue, Intrasoft International, Athens, Greece

    Aggelos Liapis

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Bermudez, P., Jones, S. (2016). Early Stage Creative Design Collaboration: A Survey of Current Practice. In: Markopoulos, P., Martens, JB., Malins, J., Coninx, K., Liapis, A. (eds) Collaboration in Creative Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29155-0_14

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