Collaboration and technology : 17th international conference, CRIWG 2011, Paraty, Brazil, October 2-7, 2011 : proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Paraty, Brazil, in October 2011. The 12 revised papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are grouped into four themes that represent current areas of interest in groupware research: theoretical foundation, empirical studies, methods and techniques, and tools for communication and cooperation. Front Matter....Pages - An Ontological Model to Blend Didactic Instruction and Collaborative Learning....Pages 1-13 Boosting Participation in Virtual Communities....Pages 14-29 Context-Awareness on Software Artifacts in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review....Pages 30-44 Interference Management Mechanisms and Socio-cognitive Constructs in Cooperative Relationships....Pages 45-56 Motivation and Its Mechanisms in Virtual Communities....Pages 57-72 Collaborative Refactoring: Results of an Empirical Study Using Grounded Theory....Pages 73-80 Communicating in a Transnational Network of Social Activists: The Crucial Importance of Mailing List Usage....Pages 81-88 Does “Virtually Being There” Help? Comparing Collaborative Work between 3D and 2D Conditions....Pages 89-101 A Software Architecture for Collaborative Training in Virtual Worlds: F-16 Airplane Engine Maintenance....Pages 102-109 A Transfer Approach for Facilitation Knowledge in Computer-Supported Collaboration....Pages 110-125 Beyond GSS: Fitting Collaboration Technology to a Given Work Practice....Pages 126-141 Collaborative Features in Content Sharing Web 2.0 Social Networks: A Domain Engineering Based on the 3C Collaboration Model....Pages 142-157 Identifying the Need to Intervene: Analysis and Representation of Interaction Patterns in Group Programming Learning....Pages 158-174 A Collaboration Support Environment for Decision Enhancement in Business Process Improvement....Pages 175-190 A Collaborative Environment for Offshore Engineering Simulations....Pages 191-206 Design and Implementation of a 3D Collaborative Telerobotic Simulator....Pages 207-214 Hey yaa: A Haptic Warning Wearable to Support Deaf People Communication....Pages 215-223 Trusty: A Tool to Improve Communication and Collaboration in DSD....Pages 224-231 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in October/November 2013. The 18 revised papers presented together with 4 progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They are organized into six thematic sessions as follows social media, social networks, crowdsourcing, learning, collaboration design and software development. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Santiago, Chile, in September 2014.The 16 revised papers presented together with 18 progress papers and 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions.