Procid: Bridging consensus building theory with the practice of distributed design discussions

Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam; Zane Nicholson; Brian P Bailey

doi:10.1145/2675133.2675272

Procid: Bridging consensus building theory with the practice of distributed design discussions

Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam, Zane Nicholson, Brian P Bailey

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Abstract

Consensus is a desired but elusive goal in many distributed discussions. A critical problem is that discussion platforms lack mechanisms for realizing consensus strategies and realizing these strategies without tool support can be hard. This paper introduces Procid, a novel browser plugin that provides interaction and visualization features for bringing consensus strategies to distributed design discussions. Key features include the ability to organize discussions around ideas, to register and visualize support for or against ideas, and to define criteria for evaluating ideas. It also applies interaction constraints fostering best practices of consensus building. Procid extends the discussion platform of one open source software community. Two evaluations were conducted. The first collected perceptions of the tool from members of the community for their own discussions. The second compared how Procid affects a distributed design discussion relative to the current discussion platform in the community. Results of both studies showed that users found the features of our tool beneficial and perceived it as more effective for consensus building than the existing platform.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	686-699
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675272
State	Published - Feb 28 2015
Event	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 - BC, Canada Duration: Mar 14 2015 → Mar 18 2015

Publication series

Name	CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Other

Other	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
Country	Canada
City	BC
Period	3/14/15 → 3/18/15

Keywords

Consensus building
design
open source

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications

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Moghaddam, R. Z., Nicholson, Z., & Bailey, B. P. (2015). Procid: Bridging consensus building theory with the practice of distributed design discussions. In CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 686-699). (CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675272

Procid : Bridging consensus building theory with the practice of distributed design discussions. / Moghaddam, Roshanak Zilouchian; Nicholson, Zane; Bailey, Brian P.

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. p. 686-699 (CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Moghaddam, RZ, Nicholson, Z & Bailey, BP 2015, Procid: Bridging consensus building theory with the practice of distributed design discussions. in CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 686-699, 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, BC, Canada, 3/14/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675272

Moghaddam RZ, Nicholson Z, Bailey BP. Procid: Bridging consensus building theory with the practice of distributed design discussions. In CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2015. p. 686-699. (CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing). https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675272

Moghaddam, Roshanak Zilouchian ; Nicholson, Zane ; Bailey, Brian P. / Procid : Bridging consensus building theory with the practice of distributed design discussions. CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. pp. 686-699 (CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing).

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