Title :
Mitigating the cognitive overload of contemporary argumentation-based collaboration settings
Author :
Karacapilidis, Nikos ; Tzagarakis, Manolis ; Karousos, Nikos ; Christodoulou, Spyros
Author_Institution :
Comput. Technol. Inst. & Press Diophantus, Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece
Abstract :
We present CoPe_it!, an innovative web-based tool that complies with collaborative practices to provide members of diverse communities with the appropriate means to manage individual and collective knowledge during a complex sense-making and/or decision-making session. We discuss the rationale behind the tool´s development and present its features and functionalities that aim to efficiently deal with cognitive overload issues.
Keywords :
Internet; decision making; groupware; innovation management; knowledge management; CoPe_it!; cognitive overload; collective knowledge management; complex sense-making session; contemporary argumentation-based collaboration setting; decision-making session; innovative Web-based tool; Sorting; Visualization; cognitive overload; collaborative decision making; visualization of collaboration; web-based collaboration;
Conference_Titel :
Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), 2011 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0683-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-936968-32-9
