Design team communication and design task complexity: The preference for dialogues

Architectural Engineering and Design Management

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-129

  den Otter, Ad ^a   Emmitt, Stephen ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication tools; Design management; Design tasks; Dialogues; Group meetings; Synchronous and asynchronous team communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860890946     PISSN: 17452007     EISSN: 17527589     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/aedm.2008.0072     Document Type: Article

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