Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, held in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, during September 14-18, 2008. The 30 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submission. The topics covered are groupware solutions, co-located groups, groupware for health care, collaborative systems development, collaborative emergency response, groupware approaches, patterns of collaboration, thinklets-based process design, mobile applications, knowledge and learning, groupware technologies, and collaborative modeling.

Inhalt
Groupware Solutions.- Attention-Based Management of Information Flows in Synchronous Electronic Brainstorming.- Implementing a System for Collaborative Search of Local Services.- Shared Resource Availability within Ubiquitous Collaboration Environments.- Co-located Groups.- Context Awareness and Uncertainty in Collocated Collaborative Systems.- Information Needs for Meeting Facilitation.- Groupware for Health Care.- Risk Assessment in Healthcare Collaborative Settings: A Case Study Using SHELL.- Persuasive Virtual Communities to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle among Patients with Chronic Diseases.- Collaborative Systems Development.- Supporting the Social Practices of Distributed Pair Programming.- Using Second Life in Programming's Communities of Practice.- Integrating Collaborative Program Development and Debugging within a Virtual Environment.- Collaborative Emergency Response.- Evaluating a Mobile Emergency Response System.- Maturity Levels of Information Technologies in Emergency Response Organizations.- Groupware Approaches.- The Semantic Architecture Tool (SemAT) for Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Development.- Towards a Virtual Environment for Regulated Interaction Using the Social Theatres Model.- Addressing Co-text Loss with Multiple Visualizations for Chat Messages.- Patterns of Collaboration.- Modifiers for Quality Assurance in Group Facilitation.- Linking to Several Messages for Convergence: A Case Study in the AulaNet Forum.- Understanding Methodological Differences to Study Convergence in Group Support System Sessions.- ThinkLets-Based Process Design.- Repeatable Collaboration Processes for Mature Organizational Policy Making.- Mobile Applications.- Comparing Usage Performance on Mobile Applications.- Coordination Patterns to Support MobileCollaboration.- Knowledge and Learning.- LeadFlow4LD: Learning and Data Flow Composition-Based Solution for Learning Design in CSCL.- A Version Control System as a Tool and Methodology to Foster Children's Collaboration in Spatial Configuration Decision Tasks.- Facilitating Audio-Based Collaborative Storytelling for Informal Knowledge Management.- Groupware Technologies.- Toward a Taxonomy of Groupware Technologies.- PaperFlow: A Platform for Cooperative Editing of Scientific Publications.- A Model Based Approach for GUI Development in Groupware Systems.- Collaborative Modeling.- Comparative Study of Tools for Collaborative Task Modelling: An Empirical and Heuristic-Based Evaluation.- Using Interactive Whiteboard Technology to Support Collaborative Modeling.- Supporting the System Requirements Elicitation through Collaborative Observations.