Actually, I note in one of Simon Buckingham Shum's papers in the D3E
environment
http://d3e.open.ac.uk/general/negotiating-org-mem/
"Negotiating the Construction of Organisational Memories ",
that the gIBIS implementation notation shown has a mixed +/- icon for an
argument.
Interesting.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Jones" <ppj@concept67.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <unrev-II@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:23 PM
Subject: [unrev-II] Visual stimuli & IBIS methodology
> Hi,
>
> I've finally got around to reading some material explaining IBIS. In
> particular I read this page
> at http://www.gdss.com/wp/IBIS.htm
> A short course on IBIS methodology and its use in the QuestMap
> implementation.
>
> Reading through the materials something struck me as being a bit odd.
> In the Question-Idea-Argument structure QuestMap appears to require that
you
> label an argument as Pro or Con with respective green plus sign and red
> minus sign before the argument has even been worked out to its full
extent.
> Since the Ideas are supposed to be presented without intrinsic bias this
> strikes me as rather counter to the spirit of the exercise. Not only that,
> but I worry (because I'm the worrying kind) about the liminal
psychological
> effects that such blatant symbolism might have upon fair assessment of the
> weight of arguments for the idea concerned. E.g. If I see many more green
> plus signs than red minus signs I might assume a subconscious bias that an
> idea has merit, when in fact a single Con argument might actually be the
> most important.
>
> It would be interesting to hear the views of others on this matter.
> Am I assuming a practice that the software doesn't actually permit, or
does
> QuestMap enforce it?
> Has anyone had experience of it influencing matters unduly?
>
> Also, does Rittel's original formulation of IBIS contain this visual
> 'loading'?
> (Off to Google...)
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>
> Peter Jones
> ppj@concept67.fsnet.co.uk
>
>
>
>
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