Goals and content: Through this tutorial, participants will: understand distinctions among various types of meetings and the role of various types of conversations in successful meetings; understand the importance of partnership for achieving team results in meetings; formulate plans for successful technological support for meetings. Participants will experience, through a series of connected exercises, an ad hoc meeting designed to highlight what is important about meetings. Out of this experience, various theories that apply to meetings will become relevant. From an integration of experience and theory, we will explore how technology can be used innovatively and effectively to support meetings.

Over several years we have participated as facilitators in many Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design meetings.Our focus has been on developing team results needed to achieve user-centered design of software for computer systems.We describe frameworks for partnership, stages of meetings, and team conversations that we have found useful.In order to illustrate our general approach, we select one design meeting experience as a case study.We close with observations on how facilitation skills might be developed by design team participants.This is needed in response to an emerging requirement for effective collaborative teamwork in HCI design activities.

Article Free Access Share on Learning from user experience with groupware Authors: Christine V. Bullen Center for Information Systems Research, MIT Sloan School, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Center for Information Systems Research, MIT Sloan School, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAView Profile , John L. Bennett IBM Research Division, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA IBM Research Division, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims CSCW '90: Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative workSeptember 1990 Pages 291–302https://doi.org/10.1145/99332.99362Online:01 September 1990Publication History 52citation1,286DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations52Total Downloads1,286Last 12 Months38Last 6 weeks3 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Abstract An experimental framework for observing an indexing task carried out in a laboratory environment is described. The computer‐based, interactive Negotiated Search Facility served as the instrument which the experimenter used to monitor the indexing task and the tool which the indexer used to carry out the task. The methodology developed enables us to gain an experimental control that is characteristic of laboratory environments and a breadth of process observation that is characteristic of case studies, An initial indexing experiment is described and we highlight the training procedure necessary to enable people who are not computer‐oriented to make effective use of an interactive terminal.

A basic hypothesis is stated about the contextual and co-occurrence properties of synonymous words. On the basis of this hypothesis, several statistics are derived for use in discriminating between pairs of words which are synonymous and pairs of words which are nonsynonymous. The discriminating power of these statistics is tested on a corpus consisting of titles of physics theses. The tests indicate that two of the derived statistics have relatively high discriminating power. The results are interpreted and the possibility of obtaining better discriminating power is discussed.