N. Streitz, P. Rexroth, and T. Holmer. Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, page 297-312. (1997)Setting: - CSCW in meeting rooms (face-to-face meetings), also called electronic meeting rooms. - Roomware: technical equipment for electronic meeting rooms. - public roomware: big screens, publicly viewable - private roomware: PCs, handhelds, private use of the participants - DOLPHIN-Software system (described in other papers) Problem/Goal: Influence of roomware (public/private/combined) on meeting room collaboration Methodical Approach: Experiment: Compare three conditions (only public whiteboard/ only private workstations / combined), 4 groups for each condition, 4 persons per group. Participants brainstormed about open problem. Measures: - Qualitative: two expert judges judged quality of solutions - Quantitative: how many actions were done? how many solutions were generated? Statistical method: variance and t-test Result: - Combination was superior and both qualitative and quantitative measures. - Public+Private to private only had nearly similar number of actions, but the first had more ideas at the end..
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