The design of the groupware systems is a progressively extended task, which is difficult to
tackle. There are not proposals to support the joint modeling of collaborative and interactive …

In the last years the production of systems supporting learning and work in-group has been
high. However, the design and development of this kind of systems is difficult, especially due …

The use of interactive applications to support group work is increasing. However, the
development and, in particular, the design of this kind of applications is complicated. In …

Degree: Dr. DegreeYear: 2004 Institute: Universiteit Twente (The Netherlands) Publisher:
Telematica Instituut, PO Box 589, 7500 AN Enschede, The Netherlands. Modern groupware …

Groupware applications have special features that, if they were taken into account from the
very beginning, could reasonably improve the quality of the system. Such features concern …

Groupware systems allow users to be part of a shared environment in order to carry out
groupwork. Members of a group belong to organizations in which each one fulfils general …

This paper discusses a conceptual model of groupware consisting of three complementary
components or models: a description of the objects and operations on these objects …

Designing Groupware systems requires methods and tools that cover all aspects of
Groupware systems. We present a method that utilizes known theoretical insights and …

Abstract Evaluation of collaborative systems is necessary in several situations. However,
evaluation is frequently done in an ad-hoc manner or not at all. This paper presents a survey …

This report presents the results of an e ort to evaluate a set of existing tools for developing
groupware. Our evaluation approach has been to put ourselves in the position of groupware …