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Sarah Tausch, Fabian Nußberger, Heinrich Hussmann
Supporting the Disney Method with an Interactive Feedback System
In Extended Abstracts of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '15. Seoul, Korea, April 18 - 23, 2015. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Collaborative creativity techniques such as brainstorming, the Six Thinking Hats or the Disney method are common ways to generate ideas in groups. The Disney method is based on three roles aiming at helping groups to consider different views on a topic. As it is difficult for novices to comply with the requirements of this technique, we developed an interactive system supporting groups using this method. Each group member is provided with a tablet to enter ideas and choose the role in which a contribution is made, represented by different colors. We conducted a user study with eight groups and compared two versions: a baseline without additional support and a version with an additional feedback mechanism providing functional feedback about the distribution of the roles. Our main contributions are: (1) a system using feedback to support the Disney method and (2) results indicating that functional feedback can help modest group members to engage more in the group process.