Lessons from a Decade of Group Support Systems Research
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A decade of research, development, and implementation of Group Support Systems has occasioned the learning of many lessons. This paper uses a heuristic model to compare group support systems to other groupware, and then summarizes many lessons learned about GSS in the laboratory
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تاریخ انتشار 1996