An Early Evaluation of Technical Mechanisms Supporting Negotiations in Groupware

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  • Markus Rohde
  • Volker Wulf
چکیده

A set of design principles for groupware will be proposed. As some of these principles conflict with each other, a "suitability for conflict regulation" will be introduced as an additional principle which proposes to design groupware so that users can regulate conflicts among themselves. According to this principle, we propose negotiability as a technical mechanism to support users regulating conflicts on the activation of a function. To evaluate negotiability empirically, we developed a scenario-based questionnaire. The results of this evaluation-study will be presented and discussed. RESUME: Nous proposons un ensemble de principes de construction de groupware. Car quelque principes sont en conflit l'un avec l'autre nos proposons "l'approprieté pour la régulation des conflits" comme une principe supplementaire. Ce principe demande de construire les applications dans une façon que les utilisateurs peuvent régeler les conflit parmi eux. Nous definons une certain class de mechanisms qui s'appelle "negotiabilité". Pour l'evaluation emirique des effects de negotiabilité sur le proces de la régulations des conflits nous avons inventé une questionaire qui présente des scenarios differentes aux interrogés. Les résultats de cette étude empirique sont presenté.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996