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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of the most revolutionary aspects of the internet is that everyone1 can be a sender and airher views world-wide. The opportunity to communicate asynchronously with othersindependent of time and place makes the medium most attractive. Our vision is to use thatoption to enable every interested...

Participatory approaches for the design and the introduction of computersystems are drawing increasingly more attention among researchers as well asamong practitioners. While participatory design (Schuler and Namioka 1993)might be considered as only "helpful" for the development of...