Invoking Social Comparison to Improve Electronic Brainstorming: Beyond Anonymity

Shepherd, Morgan M.; Briggs, Robert O.; Reinig, Bruce A.; Yen, Jerome; Nunamaker, Jay F.

doi:10.1080/07421222.1995.11518095

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“…[18]). The simultaneity of IT is found to increase participation by overcoming production blocking that inhibits content generation process, as there is no need for one to wait for one's turn to express one's ideas [19]. It can also reduce the cognitive load and distraction of members in trying to remember their ideas while waiting for their turn.…”

Section: E-participation and Citizen Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen engagement with information aggregation markets

Bothos

Apostolou

Mentzas

2012

IJEG

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Abstract. Participatory governance entails converting citizens from passive users of administrative decisions into active participants of political procedures. Public institutions and organizations can benefit from methods and tools able to aggregate and interpret information dispersed among citizens. In this paper we explore the use of Information Aggregation Markets (IAMs) for citizen engagement. We identify the benefits of IAMs and explain how markets can be used to aggregate citizens' opinions and views on policy issues. Furthermore we report on two real life cases where we deployed IAMs to assist the decision making processes of public organizations. The positive feedback from participants and decision makers provides empirical evidence on the benefits of IAMs as a method for engaging citizens in public policy decision making.

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Section: E-participation and Citizen Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen engagement with information aggregation markets

Bothos

Apostolou

Mentzas

2012

IJEG

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“…The same modifier can be used to create a variation on ThinkLets that produces different patterns of collaboration. Several authors have shown that such variations can create significant effects on the quality of the outcomes of a collaborative effort (Kolfschoten and Santanen 2007;Santanen and Vreede 2004;Shepherd et al 1996). By using modifiers, we can add nuance to a set of basic design patterns without suffering a combinatorial explosion of the pattern language.…”

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Modifiers for Quality Assurance in Group Facilitation

2011

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A key task of a professional facilitator is to assure the quality of the knowledge products created through collaborative effort. To manage the quality of the knowledge a group generates, facilitators attend to, judge, and question the quality of the contributions a group makes, the decisions it makes and the commitments its members make toward achieving the group's goals. When facilitators or group members detect deficiencies in ideas, decisions, agreements, or artifacts, facilitators may need to intervene to support the group in improving the quality of their output, without disrupting the flow of the group process. In this paper we present a framework for quality assessment and a toolbox with flexible interventions that can be added to a collaborative process on the fly as soon as quality deficiencies are detected. The toolbox is a set of conditional adjustment interventions that a facilitator can add to other facilitation techniques so as to guard the quality of the group's intellectual products. The toolbox can also be used as a starting point for designing intelligent agents that support the automatic detection of quality deficiencies.

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“…As young children grow older, they become more assured of the general competence of their social comparing skills [30]. Later studies showed that social comparison, prompted by the graphical feedback tool, decreases social loafing and increases productivity [31]. A synthesis review of years social comparison studies summarized that upward comparisons in the classroom often lead to better performances [32].…”

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Motivational Social Visualizations for Personalized E-Learning

Hsiao

Brusilovsky

2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.A large number of educational resources is now available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produces at least two problems: how to help students find the most appropriate resources, and how to engage them into using these resources and benefiting from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential methods for addressing these problems. Our work presented in this paper attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning. We introduce Progressor + , an innovative Webbased interface that helps students find the most relevant resources in a large collection of self-assessment questions and programming examples. We also present the results of a classroom study of the Progressor + in an undergraduate class. The data revealed the motivational impact of the personalized social guidance provided by the system in the target context. The interface encouraged students to explore more educational resources and motivated them to do some work ahead of the course schedule. The increase in diversity of explored content resulted in improving students' problem solving success. A deeper analysis of the social guidance mechanism revealed that it is based on the leading behavior of the strong students, who discovered the most relevant resources and created trails for weaker students to follow. The study results also demonstrate that students were more engaged with the system: they spent more time in working with self-assessment questions and annotated examples, attempted more questions, and achieved higher success rates in answering them.

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Invoking Social Comparison to Improve Electronic Brainstorming: Beyond Anonymity

Cited by 173 publications

References 25 publications

Citizen engagement with information aggregation markets

Citizen engagement with information aggregation markets

Modifiers for Quality Assurance in Group Facilitation

Motivational Social Visualizations for Personalized E-Learning

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