| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J94884/01 |
| Title: |
CSCW FOR DECISION SUPPORT AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT - THE BUSINESS FLIGHT SIMULATOR |
| Principal Investigator: |
Holtham, Professor CW |
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| Department: |
Faculty of Finance |
| Organisation: |
City, University of London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
31 July 1994 |
Ends: |
30 October 1997 |
Value (£): |
81,022
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human-Computer Interactions |
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To develop a multimedia group action support system drawing on a wide variety of groupware tool building blocks. The core of the project is developing a variety of styles of synchronous and asynchronous business meetings in test episodes and test sites. The alternative styles and technologies will be evaluated particularly from a business process and human/social perspective. Progress:The consortium segmented the developmental work into four areas - technology, business process, information and human/social. The four areas were synthesised within an Action Support System framework.The project work in 1994 has focused on the creation and use of a portable local area network. This has been used to run either simulated or real business meetings, drawing in each case on a mix of tools selected from a toolset of groupware products. Considerable emphasis has been laid on developing, in collaboration with professional facilitators, appropriate methods for conducting intensively computer supported meetings. This has related to both preliminary work ahead of the meeting, the conduct of the meeting, and follow up. The major element of the academic research began in November 1994, and is concerned with the impacts of the collaborative technologies on the business process within an organisation, and on the human and social aspects of a managers and a groups work. The concepts of a BFS Map and a BFS Control Panel, which are high level tools to assist a group in navigating between groupware products, have been developed to the prototype stage in 1994.
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http://www.city.ac.uk |