Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings

Stefik, Mark; Foster, Gregg; Bobrow, Daniel G.; Kahn, Ken; Lanning, Stan; Suchman, Lucy

doi:10.1145/7885.7887

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“…The largest number of applications are in this group: PLEXSYS from the University of Arizona [33]; Colab, designed for Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center, [34]; Shell GDSS, developed at the University of Minnesota [31]; DECAID (Decision Aids for Groups), designed by [35]; LADN (Local Area Decision Network) [36]; and SMU Decision Room Project [37][38][39]. However, the most widely used is Loomio, which manages the decision-making in some emerging political parties in Europe [40].…”

Section: Available Computer Applications For Collective Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Validation of a Methodology for Confidence-Based Participatory Forest Management

Martínez-Falero

González-García

García‐Abril

et al. 2018

Forests

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This paper formulates a new strategy for participatory forest management consisting of encouraging public participation as long as it increases empathy among participants. The strategy requires the homogeneous representation of the opinion of a participant (i.e., to determine how they assess a forest plan and identify the best one). Utility assessments are prepared for participants through pair-comparisons between meaningful points in the territory and from value functions based on forest indicators. The best plan is designed by applying combinatorial optimization algorithms to the utility of a participant. The calculating of empathy-of one participant relative to another-is based on the equivalence of their respective utilities when the current forest plan is modified. This involves calculating the opinions that are due to systematic changes in the collective plan for those participants that each participant supposes will affect the utility of the other participants. Calculating empathy also requires knowing the interactions among participants, which have been incorporated through agent-based simulation models. Application of the above methodology has confirmed the association between increases in empathy and convergence of opinions in different scenarios: well and medium-informed participants and with and without interaction among them, which verifies the proposed strategy. In addition, this strategy is easily integrated into available information systems and its outcomes show advantages over current participatory applications.

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Section: Available Computer Applications For Collective Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Validation of a Methodology for Confidence-Based Participatory Forest Management

Martínez-Falero

González-García

García‐Abril

et al. 2018

Forests

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“…An early improvement was using a video projector to provide a public display space. For example the Colab room at Xerox PARC [5] had an electronic whiteboard that any participate could use to display information to others. The importance of a central display for supporting face-to-face meetings has been recognized by the developers of large interactive commercial displays (such as the SMARTBoard DViT ).…”

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Shared Design Space: Sketching Ideas Using Digital Pens and a Large Augmented Tabletop Setup

Haller

Brandl

Leithinger

et al. 2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Collaborative Augmented Reality (AR) setups are becoming increasingly popular. We have developed a collaborative tabletop environment that is designed for brainstorming and discussion meetings. Using a digital pen, participants can annotate not only virtual paper, but also real printouts. By integrating both forms of physical and digital paper, we combine virtual and real 2d drawings, and digital data which are overlaid into a single information space. In this paper, we describe why we have integrated these devices together in a unique way and how they can be used efficiently during a design process.

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“…These were meeting rooms in which each of the participants sitting at a conference table had their own desktop computer and a video projector was used to provide a public display space. One example is the Colab room at Xerox [27] that was used to support small group face-to-face meetings. Colab used a network on workstations running distributed software applications designed to support brainstorming, document preparation, proposal evaluation and other collaborative processes.…”

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The MagicBook: a transitional AR interface

Billinghurst

Kato

Poupyrev

2001

Computers & Graphics

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The MagicBook is a Mixed Reality interface that uses a real book to seamlessly transport users between Reality and Virtuality. A vision-based tracking method is used to overlay virtual models on real book pages, creating an Augmented Reality (AR) scene. When users see an AR scene they are interested in they can fly inside it and experience it as an immersive Virtual Reality (VR). The interface also supports multi-scale collaboration, allowing multiple users to experience the same virtual en vironment either from an egocentric or an exocentric perspective. In this paper we describe the MagicBook prototype, potential applications and user response.

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Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings

Cited by 783 publications

References 15 publications

Validation of a Methodology for Confidence-Based Participatory Forest Management

Validation of a Methodology for Confidence-Based Participatory Forest Management

Shared Design Space: Sketching Ideas Using Digital Pens and a Large Augmented Tabletop Setup

The MagicBook: a transitional AR interface

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