Concurrent Brainstorming Sessions

Brainstorming Sessions

Accessibility of Brainstorming Sessions for Blind People

Today, research focuses on the accessibility of explicit information for blind users. This gives only partly access to the information flow in brainstorming sessions, since non-verbal communication is not supported. Advances in ICT however allow capturing implicit information like hand gestures as important part of non-verbal communication. Thus, we describe a system that al-lows integrating bl...

Concurrent Reversible Sessions

We present a calculus for concurrent reversible multiparty sessions, which improves on recent proposals in several respects: it allows for concurrent and sequential composition within processes and types, it gives a compact representation of the past of processes and types, which facilitates the definition of rollback, and it implements a fine-tuned strategy for backward computation. We propose...

Presenting Non-verbal Communication to Blind Users in Brainstorming Sessions

In co-located meetings, which are part of our professional and educational lives, information exchange relies not only on information exchange using artifacts like bubbles in mind-maps or equations presented on electronic whiteboards in classrooms, but also to a large extent on non-verbal communication. In the past much effort was done to make the artifact level accessible but also non-verbal c...

The Concept Plot: a concept mapping visualization tool for asynchronous web-based brainstorming sessions

Electronic Brainstorming Systems have been shown to lead to more ideas, yet unsupported face-to-face brainstorming is still widely preferred. This paper proposes a Graphical User Interface for a web-based system for design problem-solving or other intellective tasks involving convergent and divergent thinking. Referring to the literature on Group Support Systems and Information and Knowledge Vi...