Interdisciplinary Development of a Collaborative Portal for a Heterogeneous Scientific Community
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A distributed interdisciplinary team consisting of computer scientists, designers, ergonomic scientists, psychologists, and engineers from four universities are developing a web portal with and for the German human-machine interaction community. The portal integrates existing and new information services with a collaboration platform. In particular it is designed to enhance collaboration and communication within the community. This paper highlights some aspects of the iterative design process and outlines the interaction principles, which are expected to support the desired virtual community building process.
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