Improving Collaborative Convergence through Distributed and Parallel Sorting

This paper examines a convergence process of organizing ideas that are generated during collaborative idea generation activities. The method presented reduces the impact of organizing brainstorming ideas on individual participants by dividing the convergence activity into smaller, discrete tasks tha...

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Published inInternational journal of e-collaboration Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 9 - 26
Main Authors Diller, Christopher B.R, Helquist, Joel H, Kruse, John
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 01.04.2016
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Convergence
Organizing
Pools
Sorting
Tasks
Hawaii
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Summary:This paper examines a convergence process of organizing ideas that are generated during collaborative idea generation activities. The method presented reduces the impact of organizing brainstorming ideas on individual participants by dividing the convergence activity into smaller, discrete tasks that can be completed individually, and in parallel, by the participants. The entire pool of brainstorming ideas is subdivided into smaller pools and each participant is then tasked with organizing one of the subsets of ideas. The results show that by dividing up the overall activity into subtasks, the subjects experienced a more favorable environment. Furthermore, the subjects were able to work through their subset of ideas and produce results that were similar to those performing the full sort of the entire pool.
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ISSN:1548-3673
1548-3681
DOI:10.4018/IJeC.2016040102