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An online communication system to encourage rapid decision making

Yusuke Mizukami, Shin Kiyasu, Yuta Sugiura, Yumiko Muraim Takuji Tokiwa and Naohisa Ohta

Abstract

We developed "Rapid Meet", a prototyping meeting system which helps consensus building in online conferences at internet environment. After verifications, "Rapid Meet" was evaluated that users can concentrate more in meetings than by using existing remotely-connected chat services. This system's features are the function of mapping members' positions and the function to helping facilitators. The function of mapping members' positions has a field which users put their opinion and express their positions real time. It also visualizes how users agree in what level. The meeting members not only understand the positions of oneself or others but also understand the distribution of opinion. This function of helping facilitators urge the independence of the members and the conscious of time. On this occasion we conducted verification of the function of mapping members' positions. In the future, we conducted verification of the function to help facilitator, and we will aim to realize the support system of rapid consensus building by conducting verification of helping facilitators.

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