Title :
Social and computing solutions for voluntary communities of practice: designing community space
Author :
Muller, Michael ; Carotenuto, Linda ; Fontaine, Michael ; Friedman, Jessica ; Newberg, Helene ; Simpson, Matthew ; Slusher, Jason ; Stevenson, Kenneth
Author_Institution :
Lotus Dev. Corp., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We describe CommunitySpace, a component of a project to support voluntary, electronic communities of practice. We detail some of our design decisions, emphasizing issues of flexibility, diversity, and democracy. These design decisions will have impact upon the user interface to CommunitySpace, but they have much more immediate impact upon the architecture, representation, and dynamics of usage of the system. Our work is in the requirements and design phase, and we are interested in the comments of our peers on our evolving ideas
Keywords :
groupware; interactive systems; social sciences computing; user interfaces; CommunitySpace; community space design; computing solutions; design decisions; user interface; voluntary communities of practice; Chemistry; Consumer electronics; Delay; Innovation management; Knowledge management; Software tools; Technological innovation; Trademarks; User interfaces; Waste materials;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1999. (WET ICE '99) Proceedings. IEEE 8th International Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Stanford, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0365-9
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1999.805212
