This page contains links to projects, conferences, and papers relevant to software support for group and community discussion and decision making.
== Projects ==
== Conferences and Seminars ==
== Papers (read) ==
- Davies et al., 2004 : An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design : http://www.stanford.edu/~davies/deme-principles.pdf
- Zhang et al., 2003 : Rule-Mitigated Collaboration Technology : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=1214186 : description of a software architecture for distributed collaboration regulated by a variant of Robert's Rules of Order
- Witschge, 2001 : Online Deliberation: Possibilities of the Internet for Deliberative Democracy : http://insites.heinz.cmu.edu:8080/insites/events/past_events/conferences/index_html/democracy/paper/witschge.pdf
- Horan and Benington, 2000 : A Protocol for Using Electronic Messaging to Facilitate Academic Committee Deliberations : http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=ktjqcmgd7j7v3mvd : ideas for integrating e-mail communication into committees that function according to Robert's Rules of Order
- Hayne, 1999 : The facilitators perspective on meetings and implications for group support systems design : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=344246 : thesis: group support systems should be more oriented toward supporting the facilitator's activities
- Kraemer and King, 1998 : Computer-based systems for cooperative work and group decision making : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=46158 : a survey of group decision support systems
- Prakken, 1998 : Formalizing Robert's Rules of Order: An experiment in automating mediation of group decision making : http://www.bi.fraunhofer.de/publications/report/0012/
- Grudin, 1994 : Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers : http://www.ics.uci.edu/~grudin/Papers/CACM94/cacm94.html : reasons why developing and deploying groupware is more difficult than single-user or organization-wide applications, and approaches to overcoming the difficulty
- Nunamaker et al., 1991 : Electronic meeting systems to support group work : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=105783.105793 : report on large, long-term project at University of Arizona and IBM, encompassing development of many collaborative tools and numerous studies of their use
- <nowiki>DeSanctis?</nowiki> and Gallupe, 1987 : A Foundation for the Study of Group Decision Support Systems : http://cpe.njit.edu/dlnotes/CIS/CIS675/aFOUNDATIONfORtHEsTUDYoFgROUP.pdf
== Papers (to read) ==
- Sylvester-Bradley, 2004 : Participatory Democracy Networks : http://www.betterdemocracy.net/pdn
- <nowiki>McBurney?</nowiki> and Parsons, 2004 : A Denotational Semantics for Deliberation Dialogues : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1018735
- Beierle, 2003 : Discussing the Rules: Electronic Rulemaking and Democratic Deliberation : http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-DP-03-2.pdf
- Gordon and Richter, 2002 : Discourse Support Systems for Deliberative Democracy : http://www.springerlink.com/index/RPXGAA2PPALC8B6Q.pdf
- Coleman and G�tze, 2001 : Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation by : http://bowlingtogether.net/
- Farnham et al., 2000 : Structured online interactions: improving the decision-making of small discussion groups : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359001
- Chang et al., 1999 : Rule-Mitigated Collaboration Technology : http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ftdcs/1999/0468/00/04680137abs.htm
- <nowiki>McLeod?</nowiki>, 1997 : A comprehensive model of anonymity in computer-supported group decision making : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=353124
- Maaranen and Lyytinen, 1995 : Designing meeting support systems in a user-centered manner: the case of the Helsinki prototype system : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=224054
- Lea and Spears, 1991 : Computer-mediated communication, de-individuation and group decision-making : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=105994.106001
- Valacich et al., 1991 : Electronic meeting support: the GroupSystems? concept : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=105994.106000
- George et al., 1990 : The organizational implementation of an electronic meeting system: an analysis of the innovation process : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=97308
- Stefik et al., 1987 : Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=7887
== References ==
== Keywords ==
- online deliberation
- group decision support systems (GDSS)
- electronic meeting systems (EMS)
- electronic meeting support
- electronic meetings
- electronic brainstorming systems (EBS)
- electronic brainstorming
- electronic democracy
- e-government
- group decision making
- organizational behavior and human decision processes