Activity Awareness as an Enabler for Communication and Network Building in Construction Design Teams.

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Title:	Activity Awareness as an Enabler for Communication and Network Building in Construction Design Teams.
Authors:	Boddy, Stefan¹, Rezgui, Yacine², Cooper, Grahame³, Wetherill, Matthew⁴
Source:	Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. Sep2010, Vol. 24 Issue 5, p430-440. 11p. 3 Diagrams.
Subjects:	Construction industry, Communication in engineering, Social networks, Awareness, Construction projects, Interpersonal relations
Abstract:	The paper reports on ongoing research into the facilitation of communication in distributed design teams of the type typically encountered in the construction sector. Ideas around social aspects in such design teams are discussed followed by our previous research efforts as an evolutionary process that has led us to develop in this direction. It is argued that facilitating timely and contextually grounded communication in a distributed environment can help to build the social networks and associated social capital common in collocated design teams but often absent in distributed ones. We describe our framework for providing such facilitation through monitoring and awareness of the information “space” of a construction project. We believe that by leveraging the relationships in the information space, we can go some way to identifying those individuals who would benefit from developing interpersonal relations in their work and further by exploiting those relationships in real time we can accelerate the formation of personal social networks and social capital between those individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	The paper reports on ongoing research into the facilitation of communication in distributed design teams of the type typically encountered in the construction sector. Ideas around social aspects in such design teams are discussed followed by our previous research efforts as an evolutionary process that has led us to develop in this direction. It is argued that facilitating timely and contextually grounded communication in a distributed environment can help to build the social networks and associated social capital common in collocated design teams but often absent in distributed ones. We describe our framework for providing such facilitation through monitoring and awareness of the information “space” of a construction project. We believe that by leveraging the relationships in the information space, we can go some way to identifying those individuals who would benefit from developing interpersonal relations in their work and further by exploiting those relationships in real time we can accelerate the formation of personal social networks and social capital between those individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	08873801
DOI:	10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000046