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The project was intended to develop a way of improving outcomes of brainstorming sessions and acquiring participants involvement during those appointments. We analyzed existing team work schemes and most commonly faced issues. Having examined hallmarks of available solutions we proposed a prototype of a desktop program paired with a mobile application that automatizes a flow of a session by significantly reducing amount of required on-the-fly noting during the ideation process thanks to an electronic record system that collects both ideas and a user activity. This helps keeping team members not distracted from the actual brainstorming process. Proposed tool enhances both performance and experience as well as enables deeper ex-post analysis of a whole brainstorming session flow. Several groups of students have participated in a user study on the influence of the tool. Favorable reports and feedback have been received stating that the prototype has a positive impact both on users work and the sessions outcome.
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We are much obliged to Przemysław Kucharski and Piotr Duch from the Institute of Applied Computer Science for their help during the last phase of our project. We also would like to thank all the students that took part in the tests and provided us with valuable comments and suggestions.
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Andrzejewski, A., Kręcisz, K., Matusiak, M., Romanowski, A., Babout, L. (2018). Brainstorming Sessions – Towards Improving Effectiveness and Assessment of Ideas Generation. In: Świątek, J., Borzemski, L., Wilimowska, Z. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2017. ISAT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 656. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67229-8_12
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