… important work group characteristics. This article proposes a set of generic groupware
design requirements based on this analysis. These requirements include the need to support …

… The main contributions of the article are (a) the creation of a generic set of requirements for
RMS, … In Section 3, we discuss requirements on RM tools in distributed NPD organizations. In …

… of groupware through the key features that comprise GroupKit. … groupware systems when
compared to the effort required to … The developer does not have to worry about creating new …

… ); new tools can be introduced; and new rooms can even be … icons in Figure 1 are doorways
into a generic meeting room, a ‘… , where we will see how a group could have configured a …

… Depending on factors such as task, group, duration and context, cooperative work can have
… book, we propose various guidelines for component groupware. – Generic architectures are …

… Furthermore, we propose a set of benefits and resistances, … , very often groupware assumes
that the group has a shared goal … , in the following, we will consider a generic cell and the …

… and are built by developers to accommodate the group’s work… more elegant, but demand that
the programmer learn a new … discussions about what is required for groupware toolkits, and …

… , but are not limited to, groupware, group decision support … The generic process included
four major steps: (1) generating … We have proposed a framework to integrate GSS, JAD, and …

… since each new partner might impose new requirements and/or … of groupware we can identify
categories like integrated group … of requirements we tried to define groupware and have an …

… Second, the notion of personalizable groupware is proposed, … Designers of groupware face
more rigid criteria. Of course, the … First, groupware use can be so generic or transparent that …