• 공학교육연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2014

This paper is about a case study of an interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborative design project course that has been offered for six years. The distinct characteristics of this course lie in that its students consist of those in two different disciplines, mechanical engineering and industrial design, and also in two different countries, Korea and Germany. The themes of the design project have been selected differently over the years, but always were related to transportation and, particularly, personal mobility devices. The paper first delineates the course and illustrates examples of the outcomes. Then, unique aspects and challenges of the course that have been observed through the six runs and that are associated with the intercultural and interdisciplinary nature are indicated and discussed. The author is convinced that this course has been successful in helping prepare the students for globally-operating manufacturing companies in the future. It is hoped that the findings from this course and the discussions contained in this paper would help those who plan to offer similar courses.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.49-63
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• 2013

This work identifies the key factors influencing the success of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary R&D projects in transition economies by integrating knowledge management, organizational, inter/intra-collaboration (open-innovation), and leadership perspectives, while also addressing the perspective of the science of team science, which is an integrative approach to R&D. This is followed by providing the major sub-constructs of team science and policy implications to better facilitate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary R&D projects in knowledge-based transition economies.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.55-77
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• 2016

This paper focuses on how an integrated or systemic approach is needed to both investigate and connect different kinds of interdisciplinary inquiry and knowledge within and beyond universities to encourage more productive collaboration with the other three ‘macro stakeholders’ - government, business, and the wider community. In this way universities can and should provide a greater leadership role in sustainability, innovation and policy studies. Such a framework is needed to also help to change the view of many that academics should just play a supporting role of providing specialised technical expertise only to the other macro stakeholders. The interdisciplinary and collaborative framework developed here is applied to the on-going water crisis in Malaysia - an exemplary complex problem-solving basis for seeking sustainable policy solutions to diverse challenges. As further discussed, this was applied also in practice to a multi-stakeholder seminar on addressing the difficult policy challenges of the Malaysian water industry and sector.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제32권
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• pp.29-61
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• 2013

When turning to determining a subject position for the digital age, one may look beyond the invention of its technologies and instead begin with the development of its aesthetic of networked communities, nodal expression, and collaborative identity. Virginia Woolf's The Waves demonstrates this aesthetic in both form and content. In this paper, I will examine the role of collaboration in the form of interdisciplinary composition, arguing that Woolf's use of musical form and dramatic monologue and dialogue structurally secure an investment in collaborative models of expression. Digital texts taut their inherent multimodality, but such compositions are also evident in pre-digital texts. In addition, I will decipher the subject position Woolf puts forward in The Waves by looking closely at how the characters determine their own identity and existence when they are alone, when they interact with one individual, and when they congregate as a group. These are exemplified more specifically in the representations of Rhoda and Bernard as equally refusing to collaborate between a self-defined identity and a group defined identity; Bernard's channeling of Lord Byron while writing a love letter; and Woolf's use of the red carnation as a repeated image of the intertwined nature of the characters' collaborative identity and mutual dependence on one another.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.50-58
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• 2014

This study reviews recently developed perspectives within Science and Technology Studies (STS) and engineering education including engineering ethics and engineering design, focusing on defining why interdisciplinary collaboration between those two areas is required and how it can be realized. The disconnection between those areas is closely related to the chronic diseases that has brought the mono-disciplinary, segmented educational system of 20th century: fragmented perception of reality and gradual loss of academic influence. This study consists of two sections: the first section reviews new movements among STS, engineering ethics and engineering design; the second section analyses how their combination is developing and what significance it represents. Recently, some scholars attach more importance to scalable scholarship of STS, that is, strategic expansion of the range of STS. This kind of attempts is gradually producing satisfactory results as it is combined with innovative efforts arising from the field of engineering education. This study emphasizes that, when STS and engineering education are combined and interact more with each other, it will broaden our prospects about engineering and society; it will, particularly, contribute to enhance our engineering education.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.1880-1890
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to development of the 'convergence motive' scale for interdisciplinary knowledge fusion. Based on results from literature review, this study clarifies a theoretical ground for 'convergence motive'. Initial items to measure this concept were verified by content analysis and then finalized. After a pilot test done with 568 college students, gathered data were analyzed by item selection and exploratory factor analysis to verify their validity. Next, the main test implemented with 1,211 college students was analyzed with exploratory factor analysis using the method for rotation based on maximum likelihood analysis and direct oblimin for validating the final items to measure 'convergence motive'. As a result, the scale for 'convergence motive' consists of 43 items to measure the following four factors: collaboration to identifying and solving problems, challenge of a new perspective, communication for convergence, cohesion for convergence. Construct validity and criterion-related validity were performed at last to check this scale's theoretical construct. In conclusion, this study concluded that the scales for convergence motive could be generalized and applicable to other samples.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.6-22
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• 2019

The paper explores how information science knowledge can be used systematically in digital, interdisciplinary research settings and gives a conceptual analysis of the relationship between information science knowledge as donor and other research as receiver in an interdisciplinary project environment. The validity of the approach is demonstrated by the author's work on the project "The Primacy of Tense: A. N. Prior Now and Then." The study proposes a hybrid approach, combining analysis and synthesis. The analytical component identifies information systems, assigns an information system type to them, and accesses the information science knowledge associated with that type. The synthetic part focuses on the connections between information systems according to the receiver discipline's practices. The paper makes explicit the actions of experienced information professionals, thereby making their expertise accessible to others. The analytical and synthetic strategies are explained by linking them to two modes of researchers in the receiver discipline, how they act as researchers and what they know about it. The paper offers information professionals concrete assistance with identification of the appropriate strategy for accessing professional knowledge and taking appropriate actions and development decisions.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.353-361
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• 2021

고령화 사회에서 건강과 웰빙에 대한 요구 수준이 높아짐에 따라 의료 환경에서는 다양한 이해관계자가 얽힌 복잡한 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문의 목적은 여러 분야의 전문가들이 의료 환경에서 공동의 목표를 달성하기 위하여 협업하는 상황에서 디자이너의 역할과 능력을 알아내는 것이다. 학제간 접근법을 도입한 헬스케어 디자인 프로젝트에서의 효과적인 방법과 프로세스를 파악하기 위해 사례 연구를 진행하였다. 결과는 세 가지 연구 질문을 기반으로 프로세스 퍼실리테이션, 관계 관리, 시각화, 상상력과 같은 디자이너의 다면적인 역할을 분석하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.415-428
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• 2010

본 연구는 국내 융합기술 분야 연구자들 간의 연구 협력 행태를 알아보기 위하여 사회적 연결망 분석(social network analysis)을 수행하였다. 융합기술분야 연구자 1,095명로 구성된 국내 융합기술 연구자 네트워크의 특성은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 융합기술 연구자들은 다른 과학기술분야에 비해 인당 논문 편수가 많아, 융합기술분야에서 새로운 지식 창조가 활발하게 이루어지고 있음을 보여주고 있다. 둘째, 높은 생산성에 비해 융합기술연구자 그룹의 상당수가 논문의 공동저작을 활발하게 진행하고 있지 않고 제한된 협력 관계만을 보여주고 있다. 마지막으로, 네트워크 구성원들 간의 거리가 다른 과학기술분야의 그것에 비해 가깝지만, 삼각형 모양 관계의 공동 연구하는 형태로 발전하지 않고 양자 간의 공동 연구로만 머물러 있는 경우가 많다. 오직 소수의 연구자들의 허브 역할로 연구자들 간의 연결고리가 유지되고 있다. 즉, 국내 융합기술 연구 분야의 협력 관계는 분권형 이라기보다는 집중형의 특성을 보여주고 있다. 국내 융합기술 연구자들 간의 협력이 보다 활발하게 진행되기 위한 기반조성 정책 프로그램이 필요하다.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2007

Background: Intersectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration is becoming more prominent in all facets of government, health, social services, and scientific endeavors. An interplay of a multitude of driving forces moves multiple disciplines forward to achieve quality outcomes in health and social sciences services and research. Aim: This paper aims at discussing the prospects for future multidisciplinary collaboration. If inter organizational integration and multidisciplinary collaboration are the ways of the future in academia and the scientific world, it then becomes crucial to examine what lies ahead for the nursing profession, Discussion: This paper argues that in order for multidisciplinary endeavors to succeed, the leaders in multidisciplinary teams shoulder the largest share of the responsibilities involved. In developing a lasting team constituting professionals from different disciplines, the leader needs to include the right individuals in the team, identify a common goal, build trusting relationships through open communication and interprofessional education, and empower members through creating room for autonomy and at the same time allowing space for personal development. The leader will need to utilize information technologies to manage communication issues in a large multi-site multidisciplinary project. Lastly, he or she must be able to demonstrate team productivity through process and outcome evaluation. It needs to be emphasized that it falls to each individual nurse to speak up and act upon what nursing believes and represents in our quest for success in multidisciplinary endeavors. Conclusion: The significance of the role of the leader is paramount for a team to succeed. Yet there is no prospect if only a handful of exceptional nurse leaders are moving ahead in multidisciplinary endeavors. Without the actualization of professional roles by each individual nurse, the profession will have no prospect in collaborations across disciplines.