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

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