Awareness and cooperative work: the POLITeam approach

Author

Sohlenkamp, Markus ; Fuchs, Ludwin ; Genau, Andreas

Author_Institution

Inst. for Appl. Inf. Technol., Nat. Res. Center for Comput. Sci., St. Augustin, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

7-10 Jan 1997

Firstpage

549

Abstract

The paper investigates design issues which support awareness in collaborative environments. The work we present is part of the POLITeam project, an ongoing research effort aimed at the development of electronic tools to support the cooperation of German government sites distributed between Bonn and Berlin. The paper addresses social, ethical, legal, and technical issues which form important prerequisites for the design of awareness functionality in large organizations. These aspects have been identified as the result of a tight interaction process among the systems developers and selected pilot users in a federal ministry. Based on these requirements, we present the architectural model of the awareness service of the POLITeam system

Keywords

government data processing; groupware; legislation; professional aspects; social aspects of automation; German government sites; POLITeam approach; architectural model; awareness functionality; awareness service; collaborative environments; cooperative work; design issues; electronic tools; federal ministry; large organizations; pilot users; research effort; social issues; systems developers; technical issues; tight interaction process; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Context awareness; Feedback; Government; Information technology; Large-scale systems; Law; Legal factors; Temperature control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1997, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

ISSN

1060-3425

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7743-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1997.665659

Filename

665659