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Title: Affinity+: Semi-Structured Brainstorming on Large Displays

Abstract

Affinity diagraming is a powerful method for encouraging and capturing lateral thinking in a group environment. The Affinity+ Concept was designed to improve the collaborative brainstorm process through the use of large display surfaces in conjunction with mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. The system works by capturing the ideas digitally and allowing users to sort and group them on a large touch screen manually. Additionally, Affinity+ incorporates theme detection, topic clustering, and other processing algorithms that help bring structured analytic techniques to the process without requiring explicit leadership roles and other overhead typically involved in these activities.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1089068
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-93014
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: POWERWALL International Workshop on Interactive, Ultra-High-Resolution Displays, part of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 27-May 2, 2013, Paris, France
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
large display, natural user interface, ubiquitous computing, brainstorming

Citation Formats

Burtner, Edwin R., May, Richard A., Scarberry, Randall E., LaMothe, Ryan R., and Endert, Alexander. Affinity+: Semi-Structured Brainstorming on Large Displays. United States: N. p., 2013. Web.
Burtner, Edwin R., May, Richard A., Scarberry, Randall E., LaMothe, Ryan R., & Endert, Alexander. Affinity+: Semi-Structured Brainstorming on Large Displays. United States.
Burtner, Edwin R., May, Richard A., Scarberry, Randall E., LaMothe, Ryan R., and Endert, Alexander. 2013. "Affinity+: Semi-Structured Brainstorming on Large Displays". United States.
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title = {Affinity+: Semi-Structured Brainstorming on Large Displays},
author = {Burtner, Edwin R. and May, Richard A. and Scarberry, Randall E. and LaMothe, Ryan R. and Endert, Alexander},
abstractNote = {Affinity diagraming is a powerful method for encouraging and capturing lateral thinking in a group environment. The Affinity+ Concept was designed to improve the collaborative brainstorm process through the use of large display surfaces in conjunction with mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. The system works by capturing the ideas digitally and allowing users to sort and group them on a large touch screen manually. Additionally, Affinity+ incorporates theme detection, topic clustering, and other processing algorithms that help bring structured analytic techniques to the process without requiring explicit leadership roles and other overhead typically involved in these activities.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1089068}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Sat Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
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