Much literature on groupbrainstorming has found it tobe less effective than individ-ual brainstorming. However, acognitive perspective suggeststhat group brainstorming couldbe an effective technique for gen-erating creative ideas. Computersimulations of an associativememory model of idea genera-tion in groups suggest thatgroups have the potential to<l...

Background: Individuals with bipolar disorders (BD) are 5x more likely to be arrested, jailed, or convicted of a criminal offense than those in the general population. BD, turn, increases risk for adverse outcomes prisoners post-release, including mood instability, suicide attempts, substance use relapse, and repeat incarceration. Despite these negative sequelae, up 70% BD do not receive mental...

In a recent commentary, Dennis and Valacich (1999) raise several issues concerning the effectiveness of electronic brainstorming (EBS) and conclude that, when brainstorming groups contain more than eight individuals, EBS technology is more effective than nominal brainstorming. The present paper offers several theoretical and empirical reasons to justify our disagreement with this conclusion.

Innovation is a key instrument to start a transformational process based on collaboration. It is fundamental for organisations and institutions to have well defined strategies. In this context, brainstorming sessions — and e-brainstorming tools — are effective techniques to put together and associate draft ideas. Yet, in many cases, those ideas and associations do not leave enough digital footp...

1 This research investigates the role of brainstorming sessions in promoting effective user participation in ERP implementation. An exploratory case study was conducted, with the data analysis based on the grounded theory approach and the findings organized in a theoretical model. Results show that brainstorming sessions were instrumental for effective user participation, resulting in high leve...

Brainstorming is a valuable and widely-used group technique to enhance creativity. Interactive tabletops have the potential to support brainstorming and, by exploiting learners’ trace data, they can provide Open Learner Models (OLMs) to support reflection on a brainstorming session. We describe our design of such OLMs to enable an individual to answer core questions: C1) how much did I contribu...

Brainstorming is a creative and innovative tool. As a team problem-solving tool, team brainstorming can help the team conceive a lot of creative ideas and methods. Through a review of relevant literatures, this paper summarizes the three main factors of team brainstorming effectiveness: the heterogeneity of team composition, processing mode of team social information and interactive mode of tea...

brainstorming groups produce fewer and poorer quality ideas than the same number of individuals working alone. Yet firms continue to use brainstorming as a technique for generating ideas. This continuing use of an ineffective technique is interesting psychologically. From a practical viewpoint, understanding why brainstorming is usually ineffective, and why people still do it, gives a basis for...

Previous Work: A brainstorming system is distinguished from computer-aided design and project management tools, which are tailored for design execution. Instead, we seek to assist the early, conceptual phase of problem-solving, when many alternatives are considered. Electronic brainstorming systems have been used successfully (Gallupe and Cooper, 1993; Neveitt, 2000). We seek to extend these ap...