Platform for Structured Discussions and Peer Review
Abstract
Our ultimate objective is to faciliitate effective argumentation and decision-making within a group of people who rely, at least in part, upon computer systems for assistance in their collaboration. Various conventions for human discourse have evolved over time, and some computer systems codify them today, but to date the cost of creating such a system remains high and it has been difficult for us to compare their effectiveness once deployed; this slows the pace of experimentation that might offer far better collaboration mechanisms. Many group decision-making practices that are employed today pre-date modern computation which is surprising. Our specific objective is thus to create aframework and model for reasoning about and experimenting with cyber-collaborative systems. This is and enable. Creating a meeting support tool should be as easy as defining the conventions for interaction among a group ofparticipants, and the same system should help us capture data as to the rules efficacy. Ideas for new ways to run a meeting should be inexpensive to try and easy to assess. While we will strive for generality in such a model we willdemonstrate it by building blocks for structuring on-line conversation, argumentation and decision-making in two real world domains: collaboration in classes or workshops, and peer reviews of publications and research results.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 27, 2018
- Source ID
- N000141812767
Entities
People
- James Purtilo
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Maryland