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authors
Park, Hoon
year
1997
title
Cyber Design Studio: Using Manual Media Via Internet Connections for Collaborative Design
Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
summary
This article explores how Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems can be applicable and
integrated into the early stage of design. CAD systems are still technologies that are not
broadly accepted as useful to the designer especially in this stage of design because CAD
systems use the monitor and mouse which differ from the sketch paper and pen of manual
media. This article discusses how manual media and Computer-Mediated Communication
(CMC) technologies - video conferencing, in my examples - that employ multimedia and Internet
can empower designers by providing them with new ways of working together. For
accommodating this approach, a prototype CAD system has been developed in which the
system consists of a conventional drawing and extra capabilities. This system allows the
designer to work with computer based and paper based tools in the same conventional
environment as well as remote communications between the designers. This environment is
used as the setting for a case study of design tutorials in the design studio. The analysis of this
work provides interesting insight into the traditional roles of design studio as well as the
relationship between digital and manual media.