Applications
Through the website of CommunitySense, I present (demos of) applications I am developing. Customized versions of these applications can be created for your specific needs.GRASS: Group Report Authoring Support System
The development of GRASS started in 1993. In that year, the government of the west coast Canadian province of British Columbia decided to allow clearcutting of the Clayoquot Sound watershed. The resulting intense protests finally led the government to commission a Scientific Panel to write a series of reports defining new land use policies. However, this expert authoring process was intransparent. The idea was then conceived to create the GRASS system as "an arena for credible societal discourse". The aim of the system is to produce concise group reports that give their readers an up-to-date and credible overview of the positions of a wide range of stakeholders on a particular issue. In those days, Web technology was still in its infancy and the specifications of GRASS were hard to implement. In 2004, together with Jaap Wagenvoort, I developed a working demonstrator which was thoroughly tested by a group of students, who produced a complete group report on a parliamentary research information system for public infrastructure investments. Since then, my R&D priorities were elsewhere due to the demands of my new position. However, through CommunitySense, I will soon continue the development and roll-out of this innovative authoring tool for collaborative communities.GRASS home page
Key publications
- A.
de
Moor and H. Weigand (2006). Effective Communication in Virtual
Adversarial Collaborative Communities. Journal of Community Informatics,
32(2):223-247.
- A.
de
Moor and M. Aakhus (2006). Argumentation Support:
From Technologies to Tools. Communications of the ACM,
49(3):93-98.
- A. de
Moor (2004). Strengthening Civil Society by
Developing
Stakeholder Communities Using Intermedia. In Proc. of the
Building &
Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity
through
Communication Conference, Brighton, March 31-April 2, 2004.
- M.
Heng and A. de Moor (2003). From Habermas's
Communicative Theory to Practice on the Internet. Information
Systems Journal, 13(4):331-352.
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