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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

4557.0. "RFC on "Synchronous Collaborative Environment for Engineering Design" project." by FORTY2::SINGAPORI () Fri Apr 19 1996 12:36

Hi,   

A colleague of mine, Dr Kechang Liu at Staffordshire University, UK, is
developing a project which needs some input from industry, he has asked if I
could pass the project abstract around to key personnel in Digital.  Dr Liu
requires some input from industry to aid his application for a grant from the
British Research Council.

I thought the best way to aid his cause and his research would be to post the
project abstract into this notes conference. The Dr Liu's project abstract is
first reply to this note. 

Thankingyou,

Rajesh Singapori, MAILbus I.T.

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4557.1	Dr Liu's project abstract.	FORTY2::SINGAPORI		`Fri Apr 19 1996 12:38`	94
	From: Dr. Kecheng Liu ("[email protected]"@umc@VALMTS@VBO) Date: 19-APR-1996 14:15:47.43 To: singapori Cc: Subj: look for industrial interest Reply requested: not set Reply by date: Hi Rai, Please find the enclosed abstract of a project proposal. I'm going to send this proposal to the British Research Council EPSRC to apply for funding. But to increase the chance of getting it funded, I would need some letters from industry to state that such a project is useful from their point of view. If DEC is interested, what I need will be a letter mentioning their opinion on the relevance and potential benefit of the research to their business. Perhaps a half-man day per quarter of a year in reviewing the progress and quality of the project. What they get in return will be free access to the research output. A quick feedback would be highly appreciated because the deadline for the proposal submission is this mid May. I'd appreciate your help if you could ask around in the company. Regards, Kecheng ==================== Synchronous Collaborative Environment for Engineering Design (SCEED) a project proposal Kecheng Liu, Geoff Crum, Tony Stockman School of Computing Staffordshire University Abstract: This project aims at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of human collaborative process of engineering design by providing a computer-based, networked, and synchronous environment for the participants involved and geographically distributed. In the industry a product development lifecycle is normally a long and complex process and involves many individuals with different responsibilities at different phases. Improvement of efficiency of engineering design will shorten the lead time for a product development; while enhancement of the effectiveness will uplift the quality of decision making to enable the geographically dispersed participants to be involved at the right time. Organisational Semiotics [ref], a theory to be adopted in this research, suggests the issues of efficiency and effectiveness of engineering design can be tackled on the basis of understanding of the nature and characteristics of the signs to be produced and communicated. These issues will be addressed in this project by providing a set of methods and techniques for management of collaborative workflow and also by integrating the workflow into an automated technological environment of CSCW. CSCW (computer supported cooperative work), as a growing discipline, provides principles and technical guidelines for developing a synchronous collaborative environment for engineering design. Two technologies are often found in CSCW projects and are particularly the key components in this SCEED project. Multimedia technology will offer the capabilities of handling text, voice, graphics, drawings and images. Networking will enable the people involved (viz stakeholders) to participate in the process of design from dispersed locations. To take advantage of these technologies available to improve the productivity and quality of the product development, to shorten the lead time for research and development, and therefore to achieve a significant increase in economic terms have been a strong desire from the industry. The novelty of this research lies in the extended scope of users which includes not only the technical designers but also the service engineers and top level managers. Another added value to the existing technology is an integrated environment to provide a full range of functionality such as telecommunication and networking, image capture, synchronous screen drawing, distributed CAD (computer added design), multimedia data manipulation, and management for design documents. !--------------------------------------------------! ! Kecheng Liu, BSC MSc PhD MBCS CEng MACM ! ! Senior Lecturer (Information Systems) ! ! ! ! School of Computing ! ! Staffordshire University ! ! Beaconside ! ! Stafford ST18 0AD, UK ! ! Phone:+44.1785.353464 fax: +44.1785.353497 ! ! Email: [email protected] ! ! www: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/~cmtkl/ ! !--------------------------------------------------!
4557.2		DRDAN::KALIKOW	Lord help the Mr. without AltaVista!	`Fri Apr 19 1996 13:03`	5
	ISBU's working on successor products to Workgroup Web Forum (soon to be renamed), which will elaborate from that base into more media of collaboration, both synchronous & asynchronous. I'm rushed at the moment but will try to supply some more pointers later...
4557.3	To all the reply.	FORTY2::SINGAPORI		`Fri Apr 19 1996 13:50`	10
	To all that enter a reply in this note, All replies to this note will be forwarded onto Dr Kechang Liu, any replies from Dr Liu will be entered in by myself. Regards, Rajesh Singapori, MAILbus I.T.
4557.4	A word from Dr Kechang Liu.	FORTY2::SINGAPORI		`Fri Apr 19 1996 13:51`	64
	From: Dr. Kecheng Liu ("[email protected]"@umc@VALMTS@VBO) Date: 19-APR-1996 17:35:53.76 To: Rajesh Singapori Cc: Subj: RE: I need a small amount of your time, RFC. Reply requested: not set Reply by date: Dear Raj, Thanks very much for putting so much effort in to send my message around in DEC. The reply from Mr. Dutt gives me some encourage in the way that he thinks the proposed project addresses the right problem. His comments are also useful! By the way, please make sure people know that I'm not asking for their serious commitment but only "moral" support, if they think the project addresses the right issues. Hope there will be feedback. I'll "talk" to you again later. Kecheng At 17:24 19/04/96 +0200, you wrote: >Hi Dr Liu, > > >I've sent your mail to several key personnel in Digital >Reading Engineering, and will be posting you message >into Digital's own notes conference, this will allow >the entire Digital employee base and certain >priviledged customers to view your mail and send their >replies to you. > >Hope this helps, in the meanwhile their is one reply >from Nigel Dutt, Consultant Engineer to Integrated >Office Server Group (a business unit in Digital). > > >Regards, > > >Raj. > !--------------------------------------------------! ! Kecheng Liu, BSC MSc PhD MBCS CEng MACM ! ! Senior Lecturer (Information Systems) ! ! ! ! School of Computing ! ! Staffordshire University ! ! Beaconside ! ! Stafford ST18 0AD, UK ! ! Phone:+44.1785.353464 fax: +44.1785.353497 ! ! Email: [email protected] ! ! www: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/~cmtkl/ ! !--------------------------------------------------!