Towards a collaborative planning system

Shiffer, Michael J.

doi:10.1068/b190709

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“…Laurini (2001) discusses the importance of novel computer technologies, such as websites, databases and GIS to renew co-operative design, public participation etc. Group work is important in planning (Shiffer 1992;Jankowski and Nyerges 2001), but is difficult to do in an online environment. With the recent proliferation of blogs, wikis, podcasts and other engaging web tools (Richardson 2006) we hope to support 'real-time' interactivity between students in the future.…”

Section: The Online Planning-gis Course Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

An Online Course Introducing GIS to Urban and Regional Planners

Pettit¹,

Pullar

2008

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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The adoption of geographical information technology (GIS) in spatial planning has until recent times, fallen short of expectations. Part of the problem may be attributed to a lack of experience by planners in using the technology to perform common planning tasks. The paper describes the timely development of an online course for introductory urban and regional planning using GIS. The course covers approximately 100 theoretical planning concepts, which are supplemented with more than 20 practical examples and exercises. The course was made available through a commercial GIS vendor in 2001 and has been has been completed by a large number of professionals and university students. The paper describes a framework for spatial planning tasks and pedagogical underpinnings for the online course. This is reviewed in the light of feedback obtained through student surveys to assess successful and unsuccessful aspects of the course. The online course provides the flexibility for both students and professionals to learn GIScience concepts and further realise the potential of GIS in supporting a broad range of planning tasks.

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Section: The Online Planning-gis Course Structurementioning

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An Online Course Introducing GIS to Urban and Regional Planners

Pettit¹,

Pullar

2008

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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“…Clearly, research concerning collaborative decision making for geographically oriented public policy problems continues to gain momentum (Godschalk et al 1992;Shiffer 1992;Faber et al 1994;Couclelis and Monmonier 1995;Densham, Armstrong and Kemp 1995;Faber, Wallace, and Cuthbertson 1995;Golay and Nyerges 1995;Faber, Wallace, and Miller 1996;Reitsma 1996;Reitsma et al 1996;Nyerges and Jankowski 1997;Nyerges, Moore, Montejano, and Compton 1988;Nyerges, Montejano, Oshiro, and Dadswell 1998). Reducing the complexity of a decision process by reducing the cognitive workload of decision makers is one goal of developing collaborative decision support systems by integrating capabilities from group decision support systems, GIS, and multiple criteria decision models (MCDM).…”

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GIS-Supported Collaborative Decision Making: Results of an Experiment

Jankowski

Nyerges

2001

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

161

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This article addresses research questions about the sociobehavioral dynamics of geographic information system (GIS) use during collaborative decision making in small interorganizational groups. Using an experimental design of a conference room setting, a study of human-computer-human interaction was conducted with 109 volunteer participants formed into 22 groups, each group representing multiple organizational stakeholder perspectives. The experiment involved the use of GIS integrated with multiple criteria decision models to support group-based decision making concerned with the selection of habitat restoration sites in the Duwamish Waterway of Seattle, Washington. Findings representative of four categories of investigation are presented. In the first category, the experiment demonstrated that groups used maps predominantly to visualize the evaluation results and much less to structure/design the decision problem. Maps played only a limited support role in various decision stages of the experiment. In the second category, while the use of multiple criteria decision models by groups remained steady throughout different phases of the decision process, the use of maps was much lower during the initial exploratory-structuring phase than during the later analytic-integrating phase. In category three, the amount of prior and acquired group member experience with computer tools had no influence on the appropriation of decision aids. In category four, different phases of the decision process had two different levels of conflict: the exploratory-structuring phase was characterized by a lower level of conflict, and the analytic-integrating phase was characterized by high conflict level. The higher level of conflict during the analytic-integrating phase tells us that analytical decision aids aimed at conflict management are likely to help work through conflict, such conflict now being recognized as a necessary part of making progress in public decision problems.

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“…Public participation GIS and spatial multimedia systems provide visualization and exploration tools that allow citizens to explore geo-referenced data and build alternative future scenarios (Shiffer 1992;Fonseca et al 1995;Al-Kodmany 2001;Kingston et al 2000;Peng 2001). …”

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confidence: 99%