In fragmented work settings like networked organizations or virtual organizations, monolithic approaches to implement support for collaboration would require the actors involved to agree on the usage of the approach or tool under consideration. As the autonomy of actors in these settings makes...

The position paper reports on our experiences with building an Eclipse based BSCW client called BSCWeasel. The client opens new opportunities for using the BSCW system, which was developed as a web-based groupware solution providing coordination support concepts like Shared Workspaces, Awareness...

Many modern organizations can be seen as network organizations. Their participantsare individuals as well as organizations, they cooperate in distributed teams.Especially in knowledge-intensive domains (service engineering, consulting, etc.)project teams form with participants from very...

This contribution is a long-term study of the evolving use of the organization-widegroupware in a service network. We are describing the practices related to organization-wide groupwarein conjunction with local groupware-related practices and how they have proceeded since theorganization was...

In this paper, we describe an approach and a prototypeto enable participatory, collaborative tailoring ofand within a groupware application. Our approach suggestsextending the architecture of collaborative toolsbeyond just offering functionality to customise or tailorthem to fit a use scenario....

Virtuelle Organisationen bilden durch die Ihnen eigene Heterogenität und Auto-nomie der beteiligten Partner ein besonders anspruchsvolles Feld für technische Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten des Wissensmanagements. Wir leiten in diesem Bei-trag das Konzept der "Knowledge Community" bzw....

The Answer Garden supports knowledge sharing in two intertwined ways: by making relevant information retrievable and by mediating access to people with knowledge. We present a case study in which the Answer Garden approach was applied to encourage knowledge sharing in maintenance engineering of...

In diesem Artikel stellen wir einen innovativen Ansatz zur Linderung des Problems mangelnder Kompetenz-transparenz in virtuellen Organisationen vor. Ausgangspunkt unserer Überlegungen sind empirische Untersu-chungen darüber, wie Akteure in virtuellen Organisationen mit dem Problem umgehen, die...

We reflect on the opportunities offered by tangible computing in allowing an explicit and active role of users in the co-development of uses and systems. We introduce basic concepts and past approaches related to user participation and change in systems and system use, which we group in changing...

Wie in diesem Band an anderer Stelle öfter gezeigt, hat Online-Mediation in vie-len Konfliktszenarien ein gewisses Unterstützungspotential. Für die informierte Ausgestaltung konkreter technischer Systeme zur Mediationsunterstützung ist es jedoch hilfreich, Mediationserfahrungen,...