Supporting awareness of others is an idea that holds promise for improving the usability of real-time distributed groupware. However, there is little principled information availa...
Tailoring groupware has to deal with adapting properties of a shared information space as well as with adapting properties of the cooperation support to the group's needs. In...
Group awareness is an important part of synchronous collaboration, and support for group awareness can greatly improve groupware usability. However, it is still difficult to build ...
Shared-workspace groupware has not become common in the workplace, despite many positive results from the research lab. One reason for this lack of success is that most shared work...
Carl Gutwin, Saul Greenberg, Roger Blum, Jeff Dyck...
: Most of the current academic and professional work requires collaboration between the members of a working group. Groupware tools play a prevailing role in supporting this collab...
This paper addresses the conflicting dimension of groupware, seeking the reconciliation of two very different assumptions about the users' attitudes using groupware tools: use...
Intensive research and development has been conducted in the design and creation of groupware systems for distributed users. While for some activities, these groupware tools are wi...
Conventions for conducting work with groupware are essential. They include rules for how the groupware functionality should be used for communication about work, for how data shoul...
This paper describes the design of groupware for virtual organizations that share certain characteristics. First the concept of virtual organizations is introduced. Then our appli...
Markus Rittenbruch, Helge Kahler, Armin B. Cremers
Groupware is often used in distributed organizations to support communication and coordination. Managers direct resources and set up goals for the deployment of groupware. It is h...