TY - GEN
T1 - Implementing Mobile Technology on Construction Sites
T2 - 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2019
AU - St-Pierre, Éric
AU - Boton, Conrad
AU - Lefebvre, Gabriel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The increasing dissemination of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) approach must not overshadow the fact that many firms are still far from BIM, and are in fact just starting out on the road to adopting information technologies. This paper presents an ethnographic action research study conducted with an industrial partner that decided to implement information technologies on its construction sites, with a strong preference for home-made applications. The results suggest that firms lack the internal expertise to effectively conduct such development work. Thus, the passage of needs expressed by the firm towards the development of the application is particularly difficult and the pivotal role of the researcher was crucial in the success of the project. Multiple iterations and versions were necessary before achieving the expected goals.
AB - The increasing dissemination of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) approach must not overshadow the fact that many firms are still far from BIM, and are in fact just starting out on the road to adopting information technologies. This paper presents an ethnographic action research study conducted with an industrial partner that decided to implement information technologies on its construction sites, with a strong preference for home-made applications. The results suggest that firms lack the internal expertise to effectively conduct such development work. Thus, the passage of needs expressed by the firm towards the development of the application is particularly difficult and the pivotal role of the researcher was crucial in the success of the project. Multiple iterations and versions were necessary before achieving the expected goals.
KW - Construction site
KW - Ethnographic action research
KW - Information technology for construction
KW - Mobile cloud computing
KW - Mobile computing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85075566488
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-30949-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-30949-7_16
M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85075566488
SN - 9783030309480
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 142
EP - 150
BT - Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 16th International Conference, CDVE 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Luo, Yuhua
PB - Springer
Y2 - 6 October 2019 through 9 October 2019
ER -