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 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...

In this chapter we depict collaborative aspects of tailoring software. We provide a categorization distinguishing between three levels of intensity of user ties regarding tools usage (“shared use”, “shared context”, and “shared tool”) and discuss approaches to support collaborative...