Multi-user Collaborative Design Tools for Use in Product Development

摘要

This chapter describes the advantages of using multi-user collaborative design tools within product development, and what it takes to simultaneously work with multiple users on one virtual tool. Initially, it is explained why collaboration is essential during product development and how current virtual tools fail at facilitating and stimulating it. An introduction is given to multi-touch interfaces that offer the opportunity to create multi-user collaborative design tools, followed by an explanation of the most important challenges in creating multi-user virtual design tools.