To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
Over the last several years, studies of instant messaging have observed its increasing role in the workplace[1] and in social situations[2]. We propose that modifying applications...
Recent proliferation of computing devices has brought attention to heterogeneous collaborative systems, where key challenges arise from the resource limitations and disparities. S...
For many years, researchers and software developers have been seeking to develop systems and applications to enable efficient and effective group work and organizational memory. ...
This paper introduces AORTA, a software architecture that provides object-level coordination and shared workspace awareness support to synchronous and distributed collaborative app...