Abstract Knowledge Management (KM) is a diffuse and controversial term, which has been
used by a large number of research disciplines. CSCW, over the last 20 years, has taken a …

Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades most aspects of our lives and
changes everyday's practices in work and leisure time. When designing innovative ICTs, we …

We describe studies of preferences about information sharing aimed at identifying
fundamental concerns with privacy and at understanding how people might abstract the …

The introduction of IT has changed the way we live in many ways. Historically, it can even be
argued that socially embedded applications of information technology challenge and …

Access control models are usually static, ie, permissions are granted based on a policy that
only changes seldom. Especially for scenarios in health care and disaster management, a …

In the last few years, teenagers have been on the forefront of adopting short message
service (SMS), a mobile phone-based text messaging system, and instant messaging (IM), a …

Component technologies are perceived as an important means to keep software
architectures flexible. Flexibility offered by component technologies typically addresses …

This thesis contributes to the field of collaborative information systems and Computer-
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It extends the notion of technological support for …

Previous efforts in end-user development have focused on facilitating the mechanics of
learning programming, leaving aside social and cultural factors equally important in getting …

Information security and assurance are new frontiers for collaborative design. In this context,
information assurance (IA) refers to methodologies to protect engineering information by …