The Development of TRACE: An Integrative Bargaining Paradigm for Investigating Multidisciplinary Design Tradeoffs.

Abstract

This report describes our creation, application, and validation testing of an experimental paradigm -- TRACE (Tradeoffs, Research, and Analysis in Collaborative Ergonomics). Our primary goal in developing TRACE was to craft a framework within which to experimentally probe issues relevant to negotiation and decision making in multidisciplinary design teams. The paradigm was adapted from negotiation research in the area of integrative (win-win) bargaining and was set in the context of an automobile navigation system development project. We hypothesized that if the paradigm reasonably captures the context of real-world multidisciplinary design practice, individuals with actual design experience would perform better than individuals with little or no design experience.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA302387

Entities

People

  • Clifford E. Brown
  • Jonathan A. Selvaraj
  • Michael D. Mcneese
  • Randall D. Whitaker

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automobiles
  • Bargaining
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Motor Vehicles
  • Navigation
  • Negotiations
  • Validation

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