Die Aneignung und Einbettung von Computersystemen in den Nutzungskontext stellt einen zentralen, nichtsdestotrotz von der bisherigen Forschung ungenügend adressierten Aspekt der Softwarenutzung dar. Es muss dabei klar sein, dass Aneignung ein kollektiver und kreativer Prozess gesehen werden...

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...

Knowledge is an important resource in economy these days. It is typically distributed among different actors and embodied in various artefacts (cf. Saloman 1993; Hutchins 1995; Ackerman and Halverson 1998). So, on the level of national economies as well as on the level of an individual organizations, it...