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title: 'Viewpoints in co-design: a field study in concurrent engineering'
url: https://www.emergentmind.com/papers/0611152
type: paper
arxiv_id: '0611152'
arxiv_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/0611152
published: '2006-11-29'
categories:
- cs.HC
---

# Viewpoints in co-design: a field study in concurrent engineering

## Abstract

We present a field study aimed at analysing the use of viewpoints in co-design meetings. A viewpoint is a representation characterised by a certain combination of constraints. Three types of viewpoints are distinguished: prescribed viewpoint, discipline-specific viewpoint and integrated viewpoint. The contribution of our work consists in characterising the viewpoints of various stakeholders involved in co-design ("design office" disciplines, and production and maintenance disciplines), the dynamics of viewpoints confrontation and the cooperative modes that enable these different viewpoints to be integrated.