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...

Collaborative Working Environments (CWEs) are getting prominence these days. With the increase in the use of collaboration tools and technologies, a lot of sharing and privacy issues have also emerged. Due to its dynamic nature, a CWE needs to adapt the changes into accordingly. In this paper, we have implemented the Adaptive Dynamic Sharing and Privacy-aware Role Based Access Control (Adaptive...

In this paper we present Studierstube Workspace, an application framework which supports multiple users, multiple applications and multiple 3D and 2D interaction contexts in an augmented environment. We develop a design concept for collaborative working environments in virtual reality, especially the concept of multi-user aware applications and show how our implementation fits into this concept...

The aim of the paper is to present and discuss the main design concepts and principles, for a collaborative modelling environment for sciences addressed to young students 11–16 years old. The main issues under discussion concern central design questions such as: what must the main modelling primitives be when addressing young students, belonging to a wide range of cognitive possibilities? In wh...