Enforcing Methodological Rules During Collaborative Brainstorming to Enhance Results

In order to get better results during brainstorming activities participants must respect some rules when they write notes about ideas and when they consider notes written by somebody else. We argue that the respect of these rules can be verified by a multi-agent system analyzing videos and notes produced by the participants in real time. This system can simplify the role of the meeting facilitator. Feedback is sent individually or is addressed globally to the entire team. This paper presents considerations about the necessity of rules, the structure of a multi-agent system for analyzing the respect of those rules and how experiments could show the level of acceptance by people of such a system. The goal of this prospective research is to add a non intrusive system during brainstorming sessions in order to enhance the quality of results.