The use of Group Support Systems has been researched repeatedly using many task-type. For brainstorming tasks the process support of the system have been restricted to ensuring member anonymity and allowing the simultaneous entry of ideas. Little work has been done investigating other process improvements for idea-generating groups. In this paper, we investigate the effect on idea quality and q...

The purpose of this paper is to propose new evaluation criteria and an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model to assess the expanded national immunization programs (ENIPs) and to evaluate two alternative health care policies. One of the alternative policies is that private clinics and hospitals would offer free vaccination services to children and the other of them is that public health centers...

students in active learning is an important challenge in today's classrooms. The proposal presented in this paper aims to take advantage of the benefits offered by new technologies in order to increase creativity and expressive-ness in educational environments. In order to achieve this, we have designed and developed a system that allows the use of creative learning techniques such as Brainstor...

One aspect of brainstorming that has received little research attention is how the brainstorming task should be presented to the group, whether as one allencompassing question or as a series of separate questions each focusing on one aspect of the task. This paper reports the results of an experiment in which groups electronically brainstormed on intact tasks (where all parts of the task were p...

This paper presents a study of electronic brainstorming (EBS) that begins with theory building, tool development, and experimentation, and ends with practical guidance for facilitators and developers. The paper argues that social loafing impairs the productivity of EBS groups, and that social comparison is a way to decrease the effect{s) of social loafing. The literature on brainstorming produc...

As part of process redesign initiatives, substantial time is spent on the systematic description and analysis of the as-is process. By contrast, to-be scenarios are often generated in a less rigorous way. Only one or a few workshops are organized for this purpose, which rely on the use of techniques that are susceptible to bias and incompleteness, e.g. brainstorming. In this paper, we evaluate ...

The effects of three kinds of individual differences (a difference in the knowledge domain, a difference in the Big Five personality, and a difference in nationality) on a knowledge collaboration of the distributed and cooperative KJ method were examined with a groupware in an anonymous environment. The collaboration method has three steps: brainstorming, grouping, and writing. Twelve individua...

Kanazawa Technical College (KTC) is an intensive 5-year educational institution focusing on experiential learning. Project Based Learning (PBL) has been positively introduced into the education of KTC. The brainstorming that uses Post-it by the member of the group is often perform to an initial stage of PBL. It is more effective in this brainstorming that not only the student but also the perso...

The present research aimed to examine how social comparison and individual differences in creativity might influence creative performance and attention paid to ideas generated by a partner during an electronic brainstorming session. After completing a creativity scale, forty-one psychology undergraduates generated ideas by computer with a remote partner/confederate presented as a student in eit...