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Productivity improvement by using social-annotations about design intent in cad modelling process

Gerardo Alducin-QuinteroManuel ConteroJorge Martín-GutiérrezDavid A. Guerra-ZubiagaMichael D. Johnson

pp. 153-161

Abstract

This paper focuses on the New Product Development Process (NPDP) area to contribute to increasing the productivity of CAD users by means of an improved design intent communication using a social-annotation technique. Design teams operate in a similar way to an online social network, and CAD models are not just only a 3D geometry representation, as they reflect the result of an specific modeling strategy, that usually constrains the future capability for modification and reuse of the existing 3D model. Considering this context, this work tries to assess the impact of annotations in the engineering change process in order to determine its influence in the user performance during this process. Preliminary experimental results obtained from several experiments with Spanish CAD students indicate that it is possible to reduce the time needed to perform engineering changes in existing models into a 10-20% range, if those CAD models provide annotations explaining the original design intent.

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Ant Ozok A, Zaphiris Panayiotis (2011) Online communities and social computing: 4th international conference, OCSC 2011, held as part of HCI international 2011. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 153-161

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21796-8_16

Full citation:

Alducin-Quintero Gerardo, Contero Manuel, Martín-Gutiérrez Jorge, Guerra-Zubiaga David A., Johnson Michael D. (2011) „Productivity improvement by using social-annotations about design intent in cad modelling process“, In: A. Ant Ozok & P. Zaphiris (eds.), Online communities and social computing, Dordrecht, Springer, 153–161.