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 |  | Evaluation of Documents’ Approval Support 
 System for Public Office |   
 | Yoshihiro UEDA, Katsuaki HAYASHI, Naotaka KATO, Tetsushi UODANA 
 and Haruhiko KIMURA 
 |  In this research, a workflow system by which paper documents can be approved 
 with computers (paper approval) in the similar way to electronic documents 
 (electronic approval) was developed. The system especially aims at applying 
 to the documents’ approval at public offices. By the function of paper 
 approval, flexible and complex human operations for documents’ approval 
 can be applied as conventional manner without implementing the operations 
 in the workflow system. The results of evaluation showed the followings. 
 (1)By the electronic approval, approval speed became higher and information 
 sharing became more efficient than these by the paper approval. (2)When 
 rules for usage of two kinds of approval were not shown to users, the 
 paper approval was used more conveniently. (3)The results of (1) and (2) 
 suggested that it was important to draw up guidelines for efficient usage 
 of the system. (4)By the usage of the system according to the guidelines, 
 approval speed and information sharing became efficient. Thus total efficiency 
 of document's approval can be achieved.
 
 
 
  
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 | ■ | Keywords ■■■ |   
 |  | public office, documents’ approval, 
 workflow, paper document |  
 
 
 
  
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