Evaluating wikis as a communicative medium for collaboration within colocated and distributed engineering design teams

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Walthall, Carolynn J ^a   Devanathan, Srikanth ^a   Kisselburgh, Lorraine G ^a   Ramani, Karthik ^a   Hirleman, E Daniel ^a   Yang, Maria C ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CO-LOCATED; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COMMUNICATION TOOLS; DESIGN-PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; DOCUMENTATION TOOLS; ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS; WEB-PAGE; WIKI TECHNOLOGIES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 79960681096     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004115     Document Type: Article

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