Demos tools for online discussion and decision making

  • Authors:

  • Rolf Luehrs;Juan Pavón;Miguel Schneider

  • Affiliations:

  • Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Dep. for Technology Assessment, Hamburg, Germany;Dep. Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Univ. Complutense, Madrid, Spain;Ibermática, Research & Development, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ICWE'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Web engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

DEMOS provides an environment that assists the management of discussions and decision making through the web, especially when involving a large population (e.g., a community using the web to debate about city issues). It is based on the integration of three well-proven methods of social research: the Delphi method, Survey techniques, and Mediation method. These are supported by a set of tools (user interfacing, forum management, survey organization, text mining, and clustering), integrated in a layered architecture and adapted to multiple languages (the current version works on English, German and Italian web sites).