No Section...

VI.2 March/April 1999
Page: 13
Digital Citation

Bringing participatory design to practical application


Authors:
Johannes Gärtner, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

Introduction Despite the importance of temporally and spatially distributed work, face-to-face meetings remain important (compare also [6]). For more than 10 years, group decision support systems (GDSS) was the major approach used to design computer support for such meetings. These approaches reflected the dominant understanding of managing-as-decision-making [5]. In the last years, the "D" was dropped from GDSS, and now the approach is known as group support systems (GSS). GSS express the idea of supporting not only the decision process, but also nearly all types of cooperative work [12]. About 1990, electronic meeting rooms became commercial products. Many people…




You must be a member of SIGCHI, a subscriber to ACM's Digital Library, or an interactions subscriber to read the full text of this article.

GET ACCESS

Join ACM SIGCHI

In addition to all of the professional benefits of being a SIGCHI member, members get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.


Subscribe to the ACM Digital Library

Get access to all interactions content online and the entire archive of ACM publications dating back to 1954. (Please check with your institution to see if it already has a subscription.)


Subscribe to interactions

Get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.


Post Comment


No Comments Found