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Intelligent information-sharing systems

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The Information Lens system is a prototype intelligent information-sharing system that is designed to include not only good user interfaces for supporting the problem-solving activity of individuals, but also good organizational interfaces for supporting the problem-solving activities of groups.

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                                    Communications of the ACM  Volume 30, Issue 5
                                    May 1987
                                    93 pages
                                    ISSN:0001-0782
                                    EISSN:1557-7317
                                    DOI:10.1145/22899
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