Editorial Introduction - Supporting Group Work

Control for Asynchronous Group Work 1 Introduction

Controlling the development of di erent versions of a document can be a complex task, even for a single author to handle. This task is likely to become more complex as the number of authors increases, and more complex still if those authors are distributed geographically with only limited means of communication, such as electronic mail, to connect them. If this last situation makes version cont...

Supporting Intellectual Work Through Artifact Rendering and Group Review

Supporting Awareness in Creative Group Work by Exposing Design Rationale

When creativity is taken as a long-term, complex, and collaborative activity, support for awareness is required for group members to monitor the development of ideas, track how these ideas became narrowed, and understand how alternatives are being implemented and integrated by colleagues. In this paper, we investigate the effects of exposing design rationale to convey awareness, specifically ac...

AN INTRODUCTION TO GROUP WORK PRACTICE , 5 / e

Editorial: Introduction and Motivations

If you google for “open system” you get plenty of information about security services and consulting firms, as well as IT companies and industries. They explain about firewalls, vpn, intrusion detection, security standards, violations, protection of corporate assets, anti-spam, anti-virus, authentication, service and maintenance, proxy, and audits. Their mission is “to build and foster relation...