Looking at different examples of real life “communities”, one can roughly distinguish communities formed by people who are interested in the same topic and communities of people that share some kind of common environment. The first kind of communities can be called “communities of interest”. Examples for such communities are experts in a particular domain or collectors. Examples for communities...

The research and practice literature was examined to determine whether community support programs are responsive to ethnocultural issues and to derive strategies for developing culturally relevant programming. Great variation exists across cultures in family practices, conceptions of mental illness, stigma attributed to mental illness, and expectations of the provider system. Ethnic minority cu...

This research explores agent technology to support the information needs of patients and community pharmacists toward a beneficial outcome for the patient. As patients make more use of over the counter (OTC) medications to manage their own conditions, they must achieve effective communication in dealings with community pharmacists to avoid drug interactions and for guidance to seek consultation...

Ubiquitous community support systems have the potential to ease daily life through delivering valuable interactive information and member contacts right in the place where they are needed. Since in real life humans move permanently between communities, we aim at building an interoperable community infrastructure which focuses on seamless switching between different community types. We show how ...

Communities have been shown to be a very valuable source of knowledge. Thus, community support has become an important issue for Knowledge Management efforts. Community support systems must reflect the loose coupling of community members as well as the heterogeneity of communities. The heterogeneity of community members brings with it a semantic heterogeneity of terminology and perspective on t...

This paper describes the concept of interactive community notes: the notes that can be retrieved on a mobile training assistant during a workout. The notes are posted by the members of a sport community and convey useful information about the track: training tips, comments, music advice, and impressions of the track. The notes can beneficially substitute the presence of a training mate or a coa...

This paper contributes to the development of a theory of Community Informatics by proposing a theoretical framework for the development of information systems for supporting community activities. Often, community informatics applications are adhoc systems, without adequate theoretical support. In our research we have studied and developed an approach that is theoretically sound and can be used ...

This paper identifies a set of workflow patterns necessary to support community-oriented localisation. Workflow pattern discovery is based on use case analysis of five community translation tools, and modelled using the Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL) notation. An analysis is presented of the support for these baseline patterns in two mainstream enterprise-oriented Translation Management S...

Knowledge is recognized as a crucial resource in today’s Knowledge Intensive Organizations. Creating effective Knowledge Management systems is one of the key success factors in Process Improvement initiatives like the CMMI, SPICE etc. This contribution aims to provide a starting point for discussion on how to design a Knowledge Management System to support System Engineering activities. After m...

One target of a ubiquitous computing environment is to create and activate communities in which people interact in a lively manner based on their interests and situations. To achieve that goal, we have been developing a “ubiquitous community support system (UbiCoSup)” for event spaces since 2002 because event spaces have rich contents and interactions among certain interest groups and myriad su...