Groupware : design, implementation, and use : 14th international workshop, CRIWG 2008, Omaha, NE, USA, September 14-18, 2008 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, held in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, during September 14-18, 2008. The 30 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submission. The topics covered are groupware solutions, co-located groups, groupware for health care, collaborative systems development, collaborative emergency response, groupware approaches, patterns of collaboration, thinklets-based process design, mobile applications, knowledge and learning, groupware technologies, and collaborative modeling. Front Matter....Pages - Attention-Based Management of Information Flows in Synchronous Electronic Brainstorming....Pages 1-16 Implementing a System for Collaborative Search of Local Services....Pages 17-24 Shared Resource Availability within Ubiquitous Collaboration Environments....Pages 25-40 Context Awareness and Uncertainty in Collocated Collaborative Systems....Pages 41-56 Information Needs for Meeting Facilitation....Pages 57-64 Risk Assessment in Healthcare Collaborative Settings: A Case Study Using SHELL....Pages 65-73 Persuasive Virtual Communities to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle among Patients with Chronic Diseases....Pages 74-82 Supporting the Social Practices of Distributed Pair Programming....Pages 83-98 Using Second Life in Programming’s Communities of Practice....Pages 99-106 Integrating Collaborative Program Development and Debugging within a Virtual Environment....Pages 107-120 Evaluating a Mobile Emergency Response System....Pages 121-134 Maturity Levels of Information Technologies in Emergency Response Organizations....Pages 135-150 The Semantic Architecture Tool (SemAT) for Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Development....Pages 151-163 Towards a Virtual Environment for Regulated Interaction Using the Social Theatres Model....Pages 164-170 Addressing Co-text Loss with Multiple Visualizations for Chat Messages....Pages 171-182 Modifiers for Quality Assurance in Group Facilitation....Pages 183-195 Linking to Several Messages for Convergence: A Case Study in the AulaNet Forum....Pages 196-203 Understanding Methodological Differences to Study Convergence in Group Support System Sessions....Pages 204-216 Repeatable Collaboration Processes for Mature Organizational Policy Making....Pages 217-232 Comparing Usage Performance on Mobile Applications....Pages 233-247 Coordination Patterns to Support Mobile Collaboration....Pages 248-265 LeadFlow4LD: Learning and Data Flow Composition-Based Solution for Learning Design in CSCL....Pages 266-280 A Version Control System as a Tool and Methodology to Foster Children’s Collaboration in Spatial Configuration Decision Tasks....Pages 281-288 Facilitating Audio-Based Collaborative Storytelling for Informal Knowledge Management....Pages 289-304 Toward a Taxonomy of Groupware Technologies....Pages 305-317 PaperFlow: A Platform for Cooperative Editing of Scientific Publications....Pages 318-323 A Model Based Approach for GUI Development in Groupware Systems....Pages 324-339 Comparative Study of Tools for Collaborative Task Modelling: An Empirical and Heuristic-Based Evaluation....Pages 340-355 Using Interactive Whiteboard Technology to Support Collaborative Modeling....Pages 356-363 Supporting the System Requirements Elicitation through Collaborative Observations....Pages 364-379 Back Matter....Pages -