WaSABi 2014: Breakout Brainstorming Session Summary

Information Integration Research: Summary of NSF IDM Workshop Breakout Session

Breakout Session Report

On Thursday November 19, 2008 a breakout session was held in Room B1 of the Ouaga 2000 Conference Center on the following theme: New developments in cotton ginning. The session began at 2:00 pm and ended at 3:40 pm. The meeting was well attended and the discussions were frank and direct. Four speakers were on the agenda but there were in fact three presentations, as the fourth speaker was unabl...

Interesting Problems in Semantic Integration and Interoperability

We summarize the discussions of the breakout session on Problem Sharing, held during the Dagstuhl workshop on Semantic Integration and Interoperability. The breakout session brought together people from different communities (databases, AI planning, formal logic, knowledge representation) to share exciting and challenging problems in each community in a common language.

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...

Traverse the landscape of the mind by walking: an exploration of a new brainstorming practice

Group brainstorming is a well-known idea generation technique, which plays a key role in software development processes. Despite this, the relevant literature has had little to offer in advancing our understanding of the effectiveness of group brainstorming sessions. In this paper we present a research-in-progress on brainstorming while walking, which is a practice built upon the relationship b...