Application of SNS-Based Collaboration Scheme into Reproductive Design Education and Collaborative Design with Information Sharing

Abstract

A campus-based Social Networking System (SNS) has been newly designed and implemented to realize network-based smart community like domain-oriented SNS for collaborative design and decision making in a relatively short period. It can play a role to provide information sharing and communicating. Students of the design education course of our college always need to learn both of knowledge and techniques, the former is necessary to design some objects and the latter are essential to utilize tools as well as equipments. It is important to provide not only knowledge but also techniques in efficient and effective ways. For the sake of building large-scale poster for college promotion and the publicity of entrance examination, we must build up such a poster by means of the above information sharing and communicating system. This paper reports our SNS-based collaboration scheme and its application to both of collaborative design education and our real task of poster design. The scheme can play a role of such a design bed and communicating environment of collaborative design and decision making.With our SNS-based collaboration scheme, we can perform the real collaborative design for design education and poster creation in a short period. Its performance let the collaborative design and decision making more fruitful.