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The system to support developing the minutes based on hypertext
In the early stage of developing products such as documents, minutes,
computer softwares and so on,
workers progress their works through their communications
such as verbal conversation in meetings.
And the final products depend on the quality of this stage.
Although many computer systems those support such cooperative works
have been developed, only a few of them could support the works effectively.
The reason is that
these systems are mostly based on traditional life cycle models,
models of individual activity, or idealized models of team processes.
The aim of this paper is to design and develop a computer system,
which could effectively supports the workers to develop documents such as minutes
through the meetings.
The contents of this paper are as follows.
Chapter 2 ``Analysis of actual activities''
gives the methods and results of protocol analysis.
From this analysis,
several problems are found in the actual activities.
Those results become the base concept to design this system.
Chapter 3 ``Design of Hyper-minutes System'' gives
the data structure of this system.
In the structure, meetings, participants of the meetings and
products of the meetings are represented together
with the entity-relationship model.
The structure, which name is Hyper-minutes, can be regarded as
a new type of minutes.
Chapter 4 ``Method of Hyper-minutes System'' gives
effective method to use this system.
Ordinary products are developed through the several number of meetings.
To repeat the following procedures,
the Hyper-minutes are stepwise refined.
Recording the communications in the meetings.
Structuring the records between the meetings.
Chapter 5 ``Implementation of Hyper-minutes System'' gives
a sample implementation of the prototype-system.
The prototype-system expresses multi-modal information through
the graphical user-interfaces.
Workers can record the communications in the meetings
and structure the hyper-minutes with the graphical user-interfaces.
Chapter 6 ``Case Study'' gives experience in applying this system
to a project and discuss this system.
The result shows that
this system can overcome
many of problems which pointed out in chapter 2.
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