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Using Interactive Whiteboard Technology to Support Collaborative Modeling

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Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use (CRIWG 2008)

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Modeling is a key activity in conceptual design and system design. Users as well as stakeholders, experts and entrepreneurs need to be able to create shared understanding about a system representation. Technology like interactive whiteboards may provide new opportunities in the support of collaborative modeling. We conduct an exploratory research on experiences in using interactive whiteboards in collaborative modeling, based on semi-structured interviews. This paper offers a first overview of advantages and disadvantages of interactive whiteboards and creates a research agenda to explore how process support can help in harvesting the efficiency gain that we believe can be achieved using this technology.

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  1. Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Michiel Renger, Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten & Gert-Jan de Vreede

  2. Institute for Collaboration Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

    Gert-Jan de Vreede

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  1. University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE 68135, Omaha, USA

    Robert O. Briggs , Gert-Jan de Vreede  & Aaron S. Read ,  & 

  2. University of Lisbon, 1749–016, Lisboa, Portugal

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Renger, M., Kolfschoten, G.L., de Vreede, GJ. (2008). Using Interactive Whiteboard Technology to Support Collaborative Modeling. In: Briggs, R.O., Antunes, P., de Vreede, GJ., Read, A.S. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92831-7_29

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