HCI to Engage Design Team Members in IT-integrated Design Collaboration Process

Design Collaboration is an activity that requires participation of project team members for organizing design tasks and sharing experience and information. Currently, in this process the project team members are yet to fully utilize computer technologies while communicating in non-collocated design collaboration. Correspondingly, many still prefer to communicate face-to-face. However, miscommunication and lack of efficient collaboration is observed among them. The purpose of this paper is to integrate Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in design collaboration process in order to engage design team members in IT-integrated design collaboration process. Based on the extensive literature survey analysis, we identify the current gaps and deficiencies in design collaboration process. Consequently, to fulfil the current gaps, the study proposes HCI solution to current non-collocated design collaboration process. The authors identify that engaging professionals in human computer interaction is a solution to the deficiencies of current IT-integrated design collaboration process. Our literature survey will include design collaboration in building project team, technology in communication, HCI and engagement studies. The result of this analysis and proposed solution is presented by a model. This model indicates that identification of key human factors during design collaboration process is essential to engage professionals in collaborating using IT/ICT technology. Additionally, the study recommends the key human factors supporting IT-supported design collaboration. Consequently, the identified key human factors will lead us to identify the most dominant parameters that engage design team members in IT-integrated design collaboration. It will potentially help to improve collaboration among team members trough IT technologies. Key-words: Engagement, HCI, non-collocated design collaboration, human factor, IT-integrated design collaboration process, IT/ICT.