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ESSAY: Exploring Shared Mental Models Variations in Timeline
ESSAY: Applying Fashion Business Models to the Expansion of Tribal Art
RESEARCH: Design Studio Developments in the Netherlands
PROJECT: The Art Inspired Products Consultancy

YunFann (1990) is obsessed to analysis, research and everything that is related to computer. She is fearless to experiment the possibilities of the stories, aesthetic and forming method from different kinds of materials. Her ideal way of working is to explore the balance between self-identity and the commercial world, and she is stepping forward along this road by exploring consumer culture, fashion business models, media patterns and Asian roots.

YunFann is a Taipei (Taiwan) based designer, she is currently a master student in the Institute of Industrial Design of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. In 2014-2015, she spent a year as an exchange student in the Strategic Design Department of TU/Delft (The Netherlands) and the Leisure Department of Design Academy Eindhoven (The Netherlands).

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2015年2月4日 星期三

Essay: Exploring Shared Mental Models Variations in Timeline


One day, a project manager recruited a group of talented people from different expertise to form an innovative team. As the first project goes on, people started to build shared understandings among how things progress, how to cooperate with others and other teamwork aspects through interactions and communications. This mental sharedness implies the similarity, overlap and complementarity within the team, building shared mental models (SMM) enables the group to achieve complex tasks.

Focusing on one time project to explore the barriers and enablers of creating SMM (Kleinsmann & Valkenburg, 2008), and discussing different types of mental models during team works (Bierhals, Schuster, Kohler & Badke-Schaub, 2007) are the issues that general research shed lights on. On the other hand, in real-life cases, a group of people tend to work together more than once. The similarities and differences variations between the members, forming from multiple projects, becomes an interesting issue while it still remains blank in the research field.

The understanding of SMM in a long-term perspective carries out the timeline issue in this research. By accessing teams that are embedded in social context, we explore the influence of time, which implies the co-working experiences contributes to the sharedness between team members. In the light of sharedness variations, we discuss deeper in how teams deal with the different states of shared understandings to drive them accomplish permanent achievements.

This is a inductive multiple-case study performed by selecting design studios as research cases. In order to compare the sharedness, two of each studio members were interviewed separately. The patterns of the sharedness variations are recognized in the timeline, part of them can be assumed as the supports to existing literatures, while new insights are also rose as the complementary to prior studies.

It is recognized that (1) Emotional-oriented sub-mental models tend to varies more in timeline, (2) The shared feelings in the competence model exist all the time to push the team to go further and (3) The similarity between team members generally grows in timeline, nevertheless, different ways of inspiration inputs drives them to perform better outcomes.


Credits:

Author: YunFann, Ye Wang
Advisor: Petra Badke-Schaub


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