Groupware Goes to School

Groupware goes to school: adapting BSCW to the classroom

Groupware for cooperative work (CSCW) and for collaborative learning (CSCL) have many important commonalities as well as di€erent requirements. By transforming a generic CSCW platform into an environment to support a particular vision of education as collaborative knowledge building, we discovered how functionality had to be adopted, transformed and re®ned to meet the speci®c educational social...

"Why did that happen?" - Building appropriate mental models on groupware functions

Mental models are cognitive structures, which are built to understand certain aspects of the real world. Planning and control of human activity are based on them (cf. Johnson-Laird 1980; Dutke 1994). Learning a computer application goes along with the development of appropriate mental models (Norman 1983; Dutke 1994). To support users in building up mental models, computer applications and thei...

DECENTRALIZED AD-HOC GROUPWARE API AND FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE COLLABORATION By WEI-HSING (DAN) LEE A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE

GroupWare, an approch of improving organizational learning capability in the university (case study: Farhangian University)

Introduction:This study was carried out to investigate the role of group wares in increasing organizational learning capability in Farhangian University. In order to investigate the effects of deterrence (barriers) or promotion (facilitation) of the group ware and information technology on organizational learning capability was studied. Methods: The present study was performed by mixed method. ...

Reusing Groupware Applications

Many groupware applications have been developed and continue being developed over white-box groupware platforms. These platforms have brought important contributions to the development of groupware systems. However, the lack of compatibility among these platforms is limiting the portability of such solutions. This paper presents a middleware, which allows to improve the portability of new and l...