Abstract:
There exist various tools for remotely located
interactions for several modes of interactions, such as Textual,
Audio, Video and Screen Share modes. In this work, our aim is to
understand the minimum collaborative interaction tool required
for successful remotely located collaborative interaction. We
conducted a number of experiments with products with
increasing number of future complexities, e.g. difficulty of
explaining the complexity of product (Component, Assembly,
Revision, and New Component Design) using different techniques
of interaction to identify the minimum facility that a company
should have to enable remotely located interactions (working
with existing designs and new designs) during product design.
Often, small and medium scale companies are unable to afford
expensive collaborative equipments to enable remotely located
interactions and often they are confused which systems they
should possess for different modes of communications. Hence,
this paper aims to help in selecting the appropriate modes of
interactions based on the need of a company.
