The evaluation of GRADD: a GDSS supporting asynchronous and distributed meetings

Author

Becker, Karin ; Bacelo, Ana Paula Terra

Author_Institution

Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

26

Abstract

GRADD is a group decision support system (GDSS) targeted at asynchronous and distributed meetings. The distinctive features of GRADD are the combination of a rationale model for discussion support, voting techniques for deliberation activities and automatic norm control for process structure definition and control. This paper presents the results of an empirical evaluation of GRADD´s functionality with regard to these distinctive features. The experiment, though empirical, enabled us to detect the strong and weak points of the proposed functionality and/or of the current GRADD prototype, and to establish future extensions and improvements

Keywords

group decision support systems; software reviews; GRADD; IBIS model; asynchronous meetings; automatic norm control; deliberation activities; discussion support; distributed meetings; group decision support system; process control; process structure definition; rationale model; system evaluation; system functionality; voting techniques; Automatic control; Decision making; Decision support systems; Information analysis; Meeting planning; Process control; Prototypes; Resists; Scheduling; Voting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Groupware, 2000. CRIWG 2000. Proceedings. Sixth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Madeira

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0828-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CRIWG.2000.885151

Filename

885151