Creating an Employment Collaborative

Creating an advanced collaborative open resource network

As part of of the ARPA MADE initiative, we are beginning to develop ACORN, an Advanced Collaborative Open Resource Network, ACORN will provide the infrastructure to create an electronic community which will be able to design and sell engineered products in competitive markets as well as conduct research and development by collaborating through a network. Creating such a community is a task of n...

Creating Metadata through Collaborative Tagging

Since the introduction of social software and Web 2.0 technologies, discussion about the influence and importance of a broad range of new tools for various fields has followed (Safran, Gütl, & Helic, 2007; Boulos & Wheeler, 2007). Considerable potential for Web 2.0-based applications is seen in supporting information retrieval and classification of online resources. The Internet offers a huge a...

Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design

Complex design problems require more knowledge than any single person possesses because the knowledge relevant to a problem is usually distributed among stakeholders. Bringing different and often controversial points of view together to create a shared understanding among these stakeholders can lead to new insights, new ideas, and new artifacts. New media that allow owners of problems to contri...

Creating Large-Scale Collaborative Virtual Environments

Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) actively support human collaboration within a computer based virtual space. CVEs employing distributed virtual reality technologies have the potential to support very large numbers of simultaneous participants. However the creation of such systems remains problematic. Particular issues include the realisation of sociologically appropriate affordances fo...

Creating and Using the Collaborative Telelearning Environment