| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 工業工程與工程管理學系所 === 106 === With the complexity of the product design problems, and with the knowledge explosion and specialization, interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to companies gathering more than one kind of knowledge and perspectives. This study defines communication capability and role understanding as role perception. Furthermore, it investigates the impact of role perception for the people with no interdisciplinary experience, focusing particularly on design process. Whether there is a difference in roles, communication and outcomes after the novices being aware of the importance of role perception in interdisciplinary collaboration.
A half-hour sharing and one-hour interdisciplinary collaboration would be administered. Through the sharing, participants would be assisted to realize they need to change their roles and behaviors in communicating because of the difference between disciplines. After that, participants in a team need to collaboratively complete an innovative, problem-solving task. The interdisciplinary team consists of one participant from high consensus disciplines, like traditional engineering and the sciences, and one participant from low consensus disciplines, like the humanities and social sciences. Data would be collected through qualitative and quantitative methods. Participants’ roles and behaviors would be observed during the collaboration. The outcomes would be evaluated by team atmosphere and performance.
Kruskal-Wallis Test results show that difference between groups in objective evaluation and questionnaire scores was not significant. The results mean all of the groups have the similar scores in objective evaluation, performance and team atmosphere. That is, they all have great performance and pleasant team atmosphere in the collaboration. Based on the observation and interview data, this study found that role perception have a good effect on the interdisciplinary collaboration. Results show that the role perception could really help the interdisciplinary team members for beneficial behavior in collaboration. Through the sharing, the participants could be aware of the importance of role perception in interdisciplinary collaboration. This study confirm that the sharing of role perception, communication capability and role understanding, could help participants to prepare themselves before collaboration and act more flexible. This study expects to take the results as reference for novices how to increase collaborative practice skills in an interdisciplinary team.
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