Climate scientists build large, complex simulations with little or no software engineering
training—and don't readily adopt the latest software engineering tools and techniques. This …

Socio-technical systems integrate technical and organizational structures and are related to
various stakeholders and their perspectives. The design of socio-technical systems has to …

The maintenance of semantic consistency between numerous heterogeneous electronic
product catalogues (EPC) that are distributed, autonomous, interdependent and emergent …

Concept mapping is designed to externalize and represent knowledge. Together with their
visual presentation concept maps should support focused and sustainable interaction …

The socio-technical walkthrough is a methodological approach to take this multitude of
aspects into account and to make them the subject of analysis, communication, negotiation …

The work presented in this thesis was conducted at four institutions and under four main
graduate supervisors from different fields. Even though the supervision periods were …

It is difficult to imagine anything more fascinating than trying to understand collaborative
work, and how it can be supported by computers. This Thesis suggests that we are just …

Synchronous collaborative sensemaking faces challenges because of the barriers among
individuals' knowledge domains, the diversity of information distributed among individuals …

Most cooperation support systems require information about the organisational context in
which they are used. This is particularly required when systems are used in a large …