Improving extreme-scale problem solving: Assessing electronic brainstorming effectiveness in an industrial setting

Human Factors

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 519-527

  Dornburg, Courtney C ^a   Stevens, Susan M ^a   Hendrickson, Stacey M L ^a   Davidson, George S ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC BRAINSTORMINGS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NATIONAL LABORATORY; REAL-WORLD; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; SMALL GROUPS; THREE DIMENSIONS;

BENCHMARKING; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS; PERSONNEL;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARTICLE; BRAINSTORMING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYEE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 70349675864     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720809343587     Document Type: Article

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