Facilitation Tool – A Tool to Assist Facilitators Managing Group Decision Support Systems
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چکیده
This paper describes the Facilitation Tool, a tool built to untangle two problems that we find in current Group Decision Support Systems. If we want to allow facilitators manage such systems with success, then a planning functionality more detailed than the currently available is necessary. We also found very limited support to remote facilitation. Several notions concerning decision-making and facilitation, which were the basis for our design, are described. Finally, results obtained from an experiment with the planning functionality are presented.
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