Towards effective collaborative design and engineering

Effective collaborative design and engineering has to deal with various challenges. It is essential to create a shared understanding and facilitate interaction in such a way that effective collaboration becomes possible. Free riding, group think or hidden agendas need to be addressed by rarely available process facilitators. Available tools are not regularly used, are not intuitive and often are difficult to adapt to the changing group needs. In order to tackle the above issues, we want to enable effective collaborative design and engineering by offering intelligent collaboration support that supports facilitators of collaboration processes when monitoring collaboration processes and planning process interventions or tool adaptations.