This paper is concerned with cultural factors in Group Support Systems (GSS) and the impact of technology and culture on the process and outcome of group decision making. Both current research findings in various cultural settings and propositions for further theoretical and empirical investigation are presented.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Community stroke education is needed to improve early stroke recognition and reduce delays in the referral of stroke patients. In some regions, stroke support groups are important promoters of regional stroke education. However, there are no data about the level of stroke knowledge among support group members that support this promotional role. METHODS We performed a cr...

In this paper we study a new role for smart mobile devices: their potential assistance in group-based decision making. Assuming that smart devices implement wireless short range scanning technology, they have the capacity to scan other devices and by doing so, group members can exchange information and decision preferences with other group members. We introduce four mobile services that exploit...

This chapter addresses the use of technology in cognitive-based psychotherapy (CBT). It identifies the challenges of the domain, in terms of both individual and group therapy, but also the opportunities for the exploitation of new directions, opened by the introduction of the technology itself. New and refined therapy approaches, broader and multifaceted therapy environments, wider and diversif...

Few researchers have attempted to model group support system meeting behavior mathematically. Using Abductive Information Modeling (AIM), we show that group size and idea generation type are primary predictors of group process satisfaction. While similar to arti®cial neural networks, abduction frequently provides simpler models and yields weights for links among the model variables. Results sho...

Today, uncertainty dominates decision making in many areas, such as product introduction, market entry, and research and development (Borison and Hamm, 2010). These strategic decisions often directly affect the success of an organization. Therefore, decision makers seek the best possible information to support their decisions. This paper intends to address the information gap by presenting an i...

Requirements engineering is one of the most critical phases in software development processes. Requirements are verbalizing decision alternatives which are negotiated by stakeholders. In this paper we present the results of an empirical analysis of the effects of applying group recommendation technologies to requirements negotiation. This analysis has been conducted within the scope of software...

PURPOSE Although support groups are offered to many patients who have received a diagnosis of cancer, a majority of patients choose not to participate. This article reports the results of a study comparing the behavior of men diagnosed with prostate cancer and women diagnosed with breast cancer in their responses to invitations to participate in support groups. DESCRIPTION OF STUDY One hundre...