While prior studies on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) users have mainly looked at FLOSS users in the context of FLOSS communities, little is known about whether and how FLOSS communities play a role in the context of its users’ careers. This study takes an inductive approach to investigate the phenomena that are emergent and poorly understood. As promising themes emerge from a pilot st...

This paper describes a system called ePro for supporting face-to-face group activities . ePro connects a sensorembedded board and a computer simulation, and is currently used to discuss urban planning and environmental problems. Group members collaboratively construct a town by placing pieces such as houses on the board. The computer simulation program automatically recognizes the arrangement o...

This paper presents a methodology of discovering social action patterns in collaborative learning activities for use in improving activity design, and in particular for restructuring existing designs involving face-to-face social actions to enhance their social dynamics and thus better ensure the achievement of a specified aim. An activity in this context is defined as a sequence of actions tha...