TY - JOUR
T1 - The meaning of the interface. A functional and holistic evaluation of a meeting software system
AU - DeSanctis, Gerardine
AU - Snyder, James R.
AU - Scott Poole, Marshall
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence to: Gerardine DeSanctis, Information & Decision Sciences Department, University of Minnesota, 271 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. 1 The authors thank Jonathan Trower and V. Sambamurthy for their assistance in collecting the data for this study. This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant SES-8715565 to Poole and DeSanctis and by NCR Corporation, The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and not of the research sponsors.
PY - 1994/5
Y1 - 1994/5
N2 - A method for conducting apreliminary evaluation of a meeting software system is described and illustrated. The method assesses the degree of match between designer and user perspectives of a system by first defining and then evaluating the system in terms of its (1) interface, (2) functionality, and (3) holistic attributes. Applying the method, we were able to identify some preliminary strengths and weaknesses of a specific meeting software system. The application of this method illustrates how general principles developed by Card, Moran, and Newell [4], Silver [41], and other can be applied in a specific situation to assess the match between designer and user views of new meeting software technologies.
AB - A method for conducting apreliminary evaluation of a meeting software system is described and illustrated. The method assesses the degree of match between designer and user perspectives of a system by first defining and then evaluating the system in terms of its (1) interface, (2) functionality, and (3) holistic attributes. Applying the method, we were able to identify some preliminary strengths and weaknesses of a specific meeting software system. The application of this method illustrates how general principles developed by Card, Moran, and Newell [4], Silver [41], and other can be applied in a specific situation to assess the match between designer and user views of new meeting software technologies.
KW - Decision support systems
KW - Group support systems
KW - Interface
KW - Meeting software
KW - Software development
KW - Software evaluation
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U2 - 10.1016/0167-9236(94)90079-5
DO - 10.1016/0167-9236(94)90079-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028436763
SN - 0167-9236
VL - 11
SP - 319
EP - 335
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
IS - 4
ER -