Component technologies are perceived as an important means to keep software architectures flexible. Flexibility offered by componenttechnologies typically addresses software developers at design time. However, the design of software which should support socialsystems, such as work groups or...

Many IT design methodologies have been developed to guide professional designers towards aproduction of ‘good’ software that is useful to the users in the application fields addressed. But recentresearch has also stressed the creative activities of the users as an important part of...

The objective of this paper is the design of computer supported joint actionspaces. It is argued against a view of functionality as residing in computer applications. Insuch a view the creation of functionality is equivalent to the creation of computerapplications. Functionality, in the view...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an important factor in ourpersonal lives as well as in our social organizations—at work, at home, in our hospitals, in thepolitical institutions and in the public media. While in work settings the dynamics of sharedbusiness goals,...

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...

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....

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...

I received a masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, specializing in Database Systems and Artificial Intelligence. Becoming more and more interested into the interplay between social systems and software systems, I decided to work in much more...

Communities frequently encounter design problems they have to deal with, be it theirown representation in different media (e.g. the World Wide Web), or a design problem fromthe “real world” (e.g. urban planning). Major connotations with the term “Community” arethat there may be a great...