Jeff Conklin

ThinkersDesign rationale researcher

Works

  • gIBIS: A Hypertext Tool for Exploratory Policy Discussion (with Michael L. Begeman), ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 1988
  • Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems, Wiley, 2006

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He and Michael Begeman built gIBIS, a graphical hypertext version of the Issue-Based Information System that Werner Kunz and Horst Rittel had proposed in 1970, for recording the questions, positions, and arguments behind a design. He later turned IBIS into dialogue mapping, a way of facilitating meetings by mapping the discussion live.

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