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...

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,...

Der Bereich der Workflow-Management-Systeme [...] wird in jüngerer Zeit in verschiedenen Bereichen der Informatik genauer erforscht. Ziel der Bemühungen ist es, die besonderen Anforderungen, die WFMS an Rechner- und Programmsysteme stellen, zu ermitteln und zu befriedigen. [...]