Stimulating Thinking: Cultivating Better Decisions with Groupware Through Categorization

摘要

Previous research shows that groupware improves the exchange of infor- mation within groups. However, the additional information does not often lead to better group decisions, probably because individuals fail to process the new informa- tion they receive. This study explored the use of groupware processes that required individuals in groups to categorize information, in order to induce group members to better attend to the new information received from others and to integrate it into their own individual decision-making processes.