Explorations in an activity-centric collaboration environment

ABSTRACT

This demonstration presents a new hybrid collaboration technology that partakes of selected qualities of informal, ad hoc, easy-to-initiate collaborative tools, and more formal, structured, and disciplined collaborative applications. Our approach focuses on the support of lightweight, informally structured, opportunistic activities featuring heterogeneous threads of shared objects with dynamic membership as well as blended synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. We will introduce the system, and then invite audience members to use it in several exercises.

REFERENCES

• 1: Werner Geyer , Jürgen Vogel , Li-Te Cheng , Michael Muller, Supporting activity-centric collaboration through peer-to-peer shared objects, Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, November 09-12, 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA [doi>10.1145/958160.958179]
• 2: Michael J. Muller , Werner Geyer , Beth Brownholtz , Eric Wilcox , David R. Millen, One-hundred days in an activity-centric collaboration environment based on shared objects, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.375-382, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria [doi>10.1145/985692.985740]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.3 Communications Applications

Keywords:
CSCW, activity-centric collaboration, computer-mediated communication