EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER IDENTITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SHARED UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DESIGNERS

Abstract:

Prior work has demonstrated that gender identity affects team psychological safety, which is critical to the development of a shared understanding of the task. Further, we know that a shared understanding can increase team cohesion and team performance. Little work has investigated how gender differences affect communicative acts within the context of design, and more specifically how gender differences may affect the development of a shared understanding of the design concept between designers. As a first step towards filling this gap, the current work presents findings from a controlled study conducted at The Pennsylvania State University with 22 design dyads (44 designers). The findings from this study indicate that gender identity within design dyads does not affect participants' shared understanding of a design concept.

Año de publicación:

2023

Keywords:

• Design engineering
• Human behaviour in design
• teamwork

Fuente:

scopus