Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Publication Title

International Journal of e-Collaboration

Volume

12

Issue

2

First Page

9

Last Page

26

Abstract

This paper examines a convergence process of organizing ideas that are generated during collaborative idea generation activities. The method presented reduces the impact of organizing brainstorming ideas on individual participants by dividing the convergence activity into smaller, discrete tasks that can be completed individually, and in parallel, by the participants. The entire pool of brainstorming ideas is subdivided into smaller pools and each participant is then tasked with organizing one of the subsets of ideas. The results show that by dividing up the overall activity into subtasks, the subjects experienced a more favorable environment. Furthermore, the subjects were able to work through their subset of ideas and produce results that were similar to those performing the full sort of the entire pool.

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Copyright © 2016, IGI Global. The published version can be found on the journal's website here: https://www.igi-global.com/article/improving-collaborative-convergence-through-distributed-and-parallel-sorting/159168.

DOI: 10.4018/IJeC.2016040102

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