Title :
Venturing into social software
Author_Institution :
Collaborative User Experience, IBM Res., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. IBM´s new Center for Social Software is built around Venture Research - design and deployment of scaling social systems in businesses and on the Web. It´s a spin on testing software ldquoin the wildrdquo that has resulted in new products and insights into organizational impacts. In this presentation, the author gives examples of successes and challenges, demonstrate some of crowd-gathering software, and invite participation.
Keywords :
Internet; program testing; socio-economic effects; software engineering; Center for Social Software; IBM; Venture Research; Web; business; crowd-gathering software; organizational impacts; scaling social systems; social software; spin on testing software; Biographies; Calendars; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer science; International collaboration; Laboratories; Magnetic heads; Real time systems; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2009. CTS '09. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4584-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4586-8
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2009.5067428
