A hermeneutic interpretation of a controlled laboratory experiment: A case study of decision-making with a group support system

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-27

  Lee, Allen S ^a   Dennis, Alan R ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Experiments; Group support systems; Hermeneutics; Information systems; Interpretation; Research methods

Indexed keywords

CONDUIT MODEL; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HERMENEUTICS; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INTERPRETATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH METHODS;

BIONICS; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 82055205356     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2010.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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