Verification of discussions using consensus building support system organized by city development

Abstract

We have developed the consensus building support system using web technology and have been conducting verification of social experiment by online discussion with the theme of city development. In the past social experiments, we have organized discussions. However, when disseminating the systems to real society in the future, other organizations/person will organize the online discussions. Therefore, we conduct social experiments that a city development association organize online discussions. We verify the effect and the problem about the social experiments. From this verification, we found that incentives have a major influence on participant behavior.