Increasing market pressure and continuously progressing globalization influence design processes. Nowadays design teams in global companies are not necessarily working in one location, but are characterized by a large number of participants, working in a locally distributed group. Since face to face meetings imply time and cost consuming travel, distributed working design teams are forced to communicate using different kinds of media. However, exclusive use of electronic communication media is not sufficient for an effective collaboration. Actually, communication media in distributed working teams have the effect of slowing down cognitive synchronization and shared understanding during the design process.     «

Increasing market pressure and continuously progressing globalization influence design processes. Nowadays design teams in global companies are not necessarily working in one location, but are characterized by a large number of participants, working in a locally distributed group. Since face to face meetings imply time and cost consuming travel, distributed working design teams are forced to communicate using different kinds of media. However, exclusive use of electronic communication media is n...     »