摘要:

We have developed the Virtual Notebook System™ (VNS™) to facilitate information acquisition, sharing, and management in groups. The VNS allows teams to create shared electronic notebooks upon whose pages they can place text and images and, in certain cases, audio and video entities. Members of a team can interconnect the pages of a notebook with navigational links, making the notebook shared hypertext. Additionally special links, called action links, can be used to tie pages of a notebook to external programs. Here we discuss the architecture of the VNS and give a number of examples of its use. We also identify those aspects of the VNS development that seem to have been most important in its success.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399109540162

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Dramatic advances in technology for acquiring, managing, and sharing information promise to reshape the workplace by eliciting new behaviors and introducing new organizational patterns. For academic medical centers, the integration of information technology into programs of education, research, and patient care is essential for increased organizational effectiveness.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399109540163

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

The topic of this paper is a process‐vs.‐product design method representation calledArgumentative Writing (AW).Argumentative writing is a multi‐representation approach for conducting and reporting research projects. AW has at least two representations: one for structuring the problem‐understanding/solving process and one for communicating its product to others. We discuss WHAT, a hypertext‐based tool for AW. In WHAT (Writing with a Hypermedia‐based Argumentative Tool), the design process is captured using Rittel'sIssue Based Information Systems (IBIS)method (Conklin, 1988; Hashim, 1990a; Rittel, 1980). The product of the design process is represented in WHAT using a general document‐representation scheme. In the Introduction we raise four major issues that we explore in the rest of the paper. Also in the Introduction, we show the impact the WHAT approach can have on organizational computing applications such as business education and training (Hashim, Rathnam, & Whinston, 1991) and the design of dialectical organizational information systems. The section “A Methodological Basis for AW Tools”; deals with the rationale behind choosing the IBIS method in capturing the design process. The section after that explains WHAT, and the section following it explores its use as a groupware tool. The applicability of WHAT and its pros and cons are discussed in two separate sections. In the Conclusion we outline the potentiality of the approach and present suggestions for its further development. Since our first reporting on WHAT (Hashim, 1990b), the AW approach was found applicable to educational, scientific, and business areas. One such application is for structuring case discussions in business schools (Hashim et al., 1991).

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399109540164

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

This article emphasizes the importance of behavioral considerations at individual, organizational, and environmental levels of analysis when researching and evaluating the design, implementation, and use of group decision support systems (GDSS) within complex organizations. Discussion is based on interview and archival data collected on an executive level GDSS used within a corporate setting. Issues that are considered generalizable to organizational computing, coordination, and collaboration technologies concern (a) viewing organization participants as strategic, intuitive information processors, (b) understanding the importance of organizational power, politics, and situational constraints on decision making, and (c) appreciating the symbolic value of advanced information technologies to an organization's external environment.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399109540165

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399109540161

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor