The medium matters: Mining the long-promised merit of group interaction in creative idea generation tasks in a meta-analysis of the electronic group brainstorming literature

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1549-1581

  DeRosa, Darleen M ^a   Smith, Carter L ^b   Hantula, Donald A ^c  

^a Right Management Consultants   (United States)

^b BioVid Corporation   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic brainstorming; Idea generation; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ELECTRONIC BRAINSTORMING (EBS); IDEA GENERATION; META-ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33846110355     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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