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Joint Activity Design (JAD) to support design for joint activity and the joint activity of design: an analysis of barriers and facilitators

Tewani, Priyanka K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692565725971449

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2023, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Industrial and Systems Engineering.
As automation and technology has grown, machines are no longer tools and new human-machine architectures have emerged that move beyond the definition of a traditional team and are better defined through joint activity. Current design philosophies, such as Human-Centered Design (HCD), continue to look at systems as collections of components, which is insufficient to understand the interdependencies and complexities that are necessary to support these new work architectures. Joint activity design (JAD) has been introduced to fill this gap and explicitly design for joint activity. However, adoption of JAD and similar techniques has been slow, and it is unclear what factors are contributing to this lack of proliferation. In this study, we aimed to determine the challenges for implementation of JAD artifacts and what may have facilitated their use. By analyzing 5 case studies of design projects that span multiple organizations, we found that JAD artifacts were rarely used as intended due to a high cost and a high uncertainty on how to implement them. Whereas these artifacts were often used within smaller subunits, they were rarely used across the larger design function. Across the larger design function, the support was not sufficient to maintain common ground, which exacerbated many of the challenges that resulted in sacrificing the final design’s ability to support joint activity. In the future it would be valuable to get a larger selection of cases from other organizations and more evidence needs to be collected on the value of JAD methods over HCD methods.
David Woods (Committee Member)
Michael Rayo (Advisor)
96 p.
Design; Engineering; Industrial Engineering; Systems Design
Joint activity design; Cognitive Systems Engineering; Human Centered Design; interface design; complex systems; design; artifacts; design process

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  • Tewani, P. K. (2023). Joint Activity Design (JAD) to support design for joint activity and the joint activity of design: an analysis of barriers and facilitators [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692565725971449

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tewani, Priyanka. Joint Activity Design (JAD) to support design for joint activity and the joint activity of design: an analysis of barriers and facilitators. 2023. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692565725971449.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tewani, Priyanka. "Joint Activity Design (JAD) to support design for joint activity and the joint activity of design: an analysis of barriers and facilitators." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1692565725971449

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