University of Illinois Atlantis Support
Abstract
This project is concerned with developing next generation collaboration frameworks. Progress in enhancing the usability of collaborative systems hinges on improving our understanding of group work, and applying the resulting insights to the development of collaborate work support frameworks. This work builds on the work of sociologist Anselm Strauss and his notion of social worlds where a theoretical framework is applied in developing the Work Locales and Distributed Social Worlds (wOrlds) collaboration system prototype, and the prototype is in turn used to validate and further enhance the theoretical framework. The success of the wOrlds project perhaps can best be measured by the number of complex issues that have been uncovered and the lessons learned in the projects attempt to support the work of distributed social worlds with computer based solutions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA367577
Entities
People
- Simon M. Kaplan
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign