Both academic and practitioner endeavors aim to improve idea generation for individuals and groups. However, administering studies to study group brainstorming is difficult due to measurement, task choice, and logistics. A big question concerning group brainstorming is, What factors affect efficiency? To answer this question, we built a multi-agent model. The results of this inquiry point to in...

Today, research focuses on the accessibility of explicit information for blind users. This gives only partly access to the information flow in brainstorming sessions, since non-verbal communication is not supported. Advances in ICT however allow capturing implicit information like hand gestures as important part of non-verbal communication. Thus, we describe a system that al-lows integrating bl...

Idea generation is a cognitive process that plays a central role in inquiry learning tasks. This paper presents results from a controlled experiment in which we investigate the affect on productivity and learning from doing idea generation tasks individually versus in pairs, with versus without automatic support from a virtual brainstorming agent called VIBRANT. Our finding is that individuals ...

This article presents six new principles emerging from four decades of academic and industry research on the generation of high-qualily creative ideas by "hrainstoming ". The principles are: (a) brainstorming instructions are essential and should emphasize, paradoxically, number and not quality of ideas; (b) a specific, diflcult target should be set for the number of ideas; (c) individuals, not...

Researchers of group creativity have noted problems such as social loafing, “production blocking,” and especially, evaluation apprehension (Paulus, 2000). Thus, brainstorming techniques have specifically admonished people “not to criticize” their own and others’ ideas, a tenet that has gone unexamined. In contrast, there is research showing that dissent, debate and competing views have positive...

Asynchronous discussion fora all the more become part of the educational process of distance education. The goal of this research is the study of the educational techniques of Brainstorming and Snowballing to their utilisation in the frame of a distance education forum, both as far as participation and creation of learning environment and also educational effectiveness are concerned. This resea...

The need for computer supported collaboration has grown over the last years and made collaboration processes an important factor within organizations. This trend has resulted in the development of a variety of tools and technologies to support the various forms of collaboration. Many collaborative processes, e.g. strategy building, scenario analysis, root cause analysis and requirements enginee...