Methods for identification and analysis of security risks make use of structured brainstorming sessions. The effectiveness of such sessions depends on the extent to which the stakeholders and analysts involved understand and are understood by each other. Since such sessions involve people with different backgrounds and competencies, like users, system-developers, decision makers and system mana...

Creativity is increasingly important in today’s fast changing world. The use of Group Support Systems has been shown to improve the quantity and quality of ideas produced by groups during idea generation. Similarly, creative techniques may be used to increase creativity. Therefore, the use of creative techniques together with a GSS may help groups think more creatively. Brainstorming is the mos...

Early studies of creative ideation showed that individuals brainstorming in isolation tend to generate more and better ideas than groups. But recent studies depict a more complex picture, reinforcing the need to better understand individual and group ideation. Studying group influence is one way to address the complex interplay between ideas in different brainstorming scenarios. We define group...

Recently, creativity has become one of the most important keywords in the wide area of academic and industrial research. Idea generation can be viewed as a knowledge creation activity. In this paper, we present a computerized tool, Brainstorming Argumentation Room (BAR), which use a two-dimensional space connected to knowledge association process to stimulate the creativity of experts. The inpu...

The use of online interactive questionnaires is an interesting example of human-computer interactions mediatizing human interactions to support the emergence of collective intelligence. To better understand these interactions and their various effects, we propose to investigate the operating mode of interactive questionnaires. First, we recall what the questionnaires are made of in order to kno...

This dissertation presents the Participant-driven Group Support System (PD-GSS) framework. This framework presents an approach for Group Support System (GSS) designers to accommodate distributed or asynchronous groups through the use of different technologies and processes than traditional GSS. The goal of the PD-GSS framework is to further involve the collaborative participants during the work...

Brainstorming Abandoning the bogsat for compensatory2 decision-making with AHP is sometimes too big a first step for some organizations. Instead, a series of small steps might be easier to implement. An easy and prductive first step is to encourage the seeking out of several alternative solutions to a problem or opportunity rather than settling on the first one that seems feasible. Since most p...