Authors:
Diogo Azevedo
1
;
Benjamim Fonseca
1
;
Stephan Lukosch
2
;
Hugo Paredes
1
;
Jordan Janeiro
2
and
Robert Owen Briggs
3
Affiliations:
1
University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
;
2
Technological University of Delft, Netherlands
;
3
San Diego State University, United States
Keyword(s):
Brainstorming, CSCW, Collaborative Technologies, GSS, Diagram editor, Collaborative brainstorming
Abstract:
The need for computer supported collaboration has grown over the last years and made collaboration an important factor within organizations. This trend has resulted in the development of a variety of tools and technologies to support he various forms of collaboration. Many collaborative processes, e.g. strategy building, scenario analysis, root cause analysis and requirements engineering, requires various collaboration support tools. Within these synchronous collaborative applications to create, evaluate, elaborate, discuss, and revise graphical models, e.g. data flow, fishbone and brainstorming diagrams, play an important role. Currently, the necessary tools are not integrated and flexible enough to support such processes. In this paper, we present a case study done to a synchronous collaborative brainstorming diagram editor - CLSD that is inte-grated in a flexible group support system. Our approach goes beyond the current state of the art as we can be seamlessly integrated with oth
er collaboration support tools such as text-based brainstorming or voting.
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