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TAIDE is a collaborative project with Zagreb University and focuses on co-located and distributed engineering teams and how they adapt to external and internal conditions.
The research requires an interdisciplinary approach to understand, model and improve teamwork in development projects.
The importance of physical meetings and virtual teams in product development is well recognized in research and industry. Engineering teams often work in dynamic environments that require adaptation and constant change due to external and internal conditions. Teams must adapt to changes in market trends, respond to new customer demands, and adjust to changing technologies or resources. As the field of engineering team research evolves, it continues to require interdisciplinary approaches to understand, model, and improve the role of collaboration in product development. As there are many factors that influence teamwork and the effects of these factors depend on time and context, understanding and predicting the performance of co-located and virtual teams is exceptionally challenging and there are insufficient research studies.
The goal of the proposed research project is to develop a framework for experimental studies of engineering teams (both face-to-face and virtual). This framework should serve as the basis for increasing the use and effectiveness of teams in innovation-oriented product development projects.
The proposed project will contribute to both theory and practice by bringing together interdisciplinary research, conceptualization and modelling. The project builds on the results of the MINMED 2014-2018 project ( www.minmed.org ). During the project, the Design Science Research (DSR) framework will be used. Experimental design research will be the primary research paradigm including experiments with engineering teams in DEPICT lab and CADLab and computational simulations of the teams' properties.
The results of the research are expected to delineate how empirical research and computational simulations can lead to better understanding, modelling, reflection and improvement of team adaptability. The resulting computational tools shall enable scientists and engineers from the industry to leverage simulations to understand the role of the different types of disturbances affecting team performance.
The research will be conducted by a multidisciplinary research team including scientists and research infrastructure for experiments from Croatia, USA, Denmark and Sweden.
Coordinator: University of Zagreb
Project leader: Mario Štorga
Program: Croatian Science Council
Project duration: 2018 - 2022
Grant: 1MHKR
Product innovation part: 200 kSEK.
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