Title : 
Considering Context Elements in Pre-Meeting Systems
         
        
            Author : 
David, Jose Maria N ; Rosa, Marcio G P ; Santoro, Flavia Maria ; Borges, Marcos R S
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Faculdade Ruy Barbosa
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Research has been done in order to propose solutions that enhance interactions among participants and improve activity coordination in the meeting cycle. Some of these are related to pre-meeting phase conduction. We argue that collaboration could be enhanced if we supplied relevant context information through awareness mechanisms. This paper aims at evaluating context elements in an asynchronous Web-based pre-meeting application. As a result, a context framework is discussed in order to support awareness design in the meeting support applications domain
         
        
            Keywords : 
decision making; group decision support systems; asynchronous Web-based pre-meeting application; awareness mechanisms; meeting cycle; participant interaction; relevant context information; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Context awareness; Costs; Guidelines; Informatics; Meeting planning; Productivity; Scheduling; Awareness; Context; Pre-meeting;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Nanjing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0164-X
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1-4244-0165-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CSCWD.2006.253211