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We introduce COLLANE, an experimental collaborative analytic environment that allows a group of professional analysts to work together effectively on complex, multifaceted information problems. COLLANE has been developed to investigate innovative ways of harnessing the power of collaboration so that to maximize the quality of the analytical product while at the same time controlling for its hidden costs: bias, groupthink, compromise, suppression of dissent and individual initiative. The key innovation that we are advancing in this project is the concept of ubiquitous tacit collaboration enabled through computer-mediated information sharing between the participants. By design, tacit collaboration requires no extraneous effort from the users since the information exchange is both automatic and targeted to what each analyst is currently doing. It also requires no specific “engagement” with subject matter experts since their continuous virtual presence assures ubiquity of collaborative opportunities. In this paper we describe an initial prototype of COLLANE, explaining its basic functions and components.
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Strzalkowski, T. et al. (2009). COLLANE: An Experiment in Computer-Mediated Tacit Collaboration. In: Marciniak, M., Mykowiecka, A. (eds) Aspects of Natural Language Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5070. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04735-0_17
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