Doug Gurian-Sherman and Noel Gurwick are senior scientists in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Food and Environment Program. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible ...

In this paper authors describe the development of an emergent collaborative working environment netWork Oasis and the practical findings discovered during the Oasis development process. The findings of the project indicate strongly that there is a need for further research and development of tools, practices and methods in the field of collaborative networked organisations (CNO). The main findi...

STEM is an interactive web application designed to support and facilitate socio-technical discussions in a collaborative environment. This interactive demo shows how STEM aims to encompass issues with collaborative tools such as organisation of discussion threads by relevancy, interdependency and iteration of previous discussions.

A society of knowledge requires a mobile, interconnected scientific community: in this paper, we present a concept for a new type of collaborative working environments for knowledge gain and research, focusing on the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Thriving on phenomena, which appear in the atomic scale, nanotechnology is a very promising multi disciplinary field, where physics, chemis...

In this thesis, boundary-crossing collaborative knowledge work aiming for innovation and use of ICT is in focus. The starting point for the research was the proposition that we still have much to learn about boundarycrossing collaboration for innovation and the use of ICT before we can design enabling and supporting ICT and collaborative working environments. Thus, the purpose has been to study...

Upon leaving the hospital, parents of high-risk infants experience a variety of challenges in providing care at home. In this work, we present results from a qualitative study to understand the role of social interaction and information-sharing surrounding high-risk infants among both home caregivers and health professionals. These results demonstrate challenges in communication and social supp...

We have been investigating collaborative expert-consultation dialogues in which two participants (the executing agent and the consultant) work together to construct a plan for achieving the executing agent’s domain goal. Our analysis of naturally occurring dialogue and our search for an architecture for response generation in collaborative situations have led us to identify a number of features...

In this paper we present Studierstube Workspace, an application framework for augmented reality. We develop a concept for a collaborative working environments that simultaneously supports multiple users as well as multiple applications and in particular multi-tasking. The co-presence of multiple users interacting with multiple concurrently executing applications opens up new possibilities in th...

In these days when we go to public places like banks or post-offices, we always have to reckon with the risk of armed robbery, or terrorist attack. These places are protected by special security crew, but the increasing demand on improved security requires redundant and failsafe methods which eliminates the human factor. In this paper an Intelligent Space based project is introduced which can d...

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