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Paper: w78-1993-2-3
| Paper title: | Information Technology and the Construction Industry: Another Tower of Babel ? |
| Authors: | Alty J L |
| Summary: | The application of information technology (IT) to the construction industry has not been outstandingly successful and does not seem to have produced the benefits which other industries have achieved. A number of reasons for this are highlighted, some already well-known. However some serious mismatches between the technologies and the requirements of the industry are also identified. It is suggested that new developments in multimedia interfaces and computer supported co-operative working may reduce this mismatch and result in a higher level of take-up of the technology. |
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| Year of publication: | 1993 |
| Keywords: | human interface; group working; multimedia; construction industry; groupware |
| Series: | w78:1993 |
| ISSN: | 2706-6568 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/w78-1993-2-3.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Alty J L (1993). Information Technology and the Construction Industry: Another Tower of Babel ?. Mathur K S, Betts M P, Tham K W (editors); Management of information technology for construction; Singapore, August 1993 (ISSN: 2706-6568), http://itc.scix.net/paper/w78-1993-2-3 |
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