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Meetingware supports, manages, guides and stimulates participation in meetings. The evaluation of meetingware has not yet produced concluding results due to many reasons, one of them concerning the high cost (in time, money and logistics) of the evaluation process. This paper proposes a low-cost approach to evaluate meetingware. The approach is centered on a variable – Perceived Value – measuring several external product attributes of meetingware that can be negotiated between developers and users. The proposed approach was used by an organization with the purpose of evaluating a meetingware prototype developed by the authors.
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Antunes, P., Costa, C.J. (2003). Perceived Value: A Low-Cost Approach to Evaluate Meetingware. In: Favela, J., Decouchant, D. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39850-9_10
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