From Webspace to Workspace and Back Again: Seamless Instantiation, Composition, and Use of Interactive Project Objects

Author

Zhao, Dejin ; Rosson, Mary Beth

Author_Institution

Comput.-Supported Collaboration & Learning Lab., Penn State Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

4-8 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

180

Abstract

Nonprogrammers who wish to construct and share online resources for a group (e.g., discussion boards, calendars, multi-media documents) may do so by using end-user Web construction tools such as BaseCamp, MSN Group, and CommunityZero to create group or community Websites. Others may prefer collaborative tools like Groove to support a more synchronous style of composition and interaction. However there is little if any support for combining these two approaches-to build, refine, and use shared resources using either a Web browser or real-time collaborative tools. In this short paper we use two user interaction scenarios to illustrate our current work on integrating these two styles of collaboration

Keywords

Internet; Web design; groupware; online front-ends; Web browser; Web sites; Web space; end-user Web construction tools; interactive project objects; online resources; real-time collaborative tools; Blogs; Buildings; Calendars; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Decision making; Hardware; Multimedia databases; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2006. VL/HCC 2006. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Brighton

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2586-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLHCC.2006.23

Filename

1698782