Using latent semantic analysis (LSA) to study expert design teams' verbal communication

• Main Author: Yeng, Xi
• Other Authors: Martin Erik Gustav Helander
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Product engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/15169
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Teams of people design products. They bring their own language, experiences, perspectives, and detailed knowledge to the design. Thus, design in a team can be regarded as a social process of reaching a “shared understanding”, through activities such as information exchange, compromise and negotiatio...