1988/10/01 by Jeff Conklin, Michael L. Begeman · 1 citation
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Usability and User Interface Design #Information Systems Theories and Implementation #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices #Ibis #Computer science #Hypertext #World Wide Web #Human–computer interaction #Information retrieval
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/58566.59297
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This paper describes an application-specific hypertext system designed to facilitate the capture of early design deliberations. It implements a specific method, called Issue Based Information Systems (IBIS), which has been developed for use on large, complex design problems. The hypertext system described here, gIBIS (for graphical IBIS), makes use of color and a high-speed relational database server to facilitate building and browsing typed IBIS networks. Further, gIBIS is designed to support the collaborative construction of these networks by any number of cooperating team members spread across a local area network. Early experiments suggest that the IBIS method is still incomplete, but there is a good match between the tool and method even in this experimental version.