A Coordination Language For Building Collaborative Applications

Cortés, Mauricio

doi:10.1023/a:1008798208890

Cited by 16 publications

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“…The five characteristics (Table 1) represent the functional support needed for a technology to be modified in the context of its use (Baldwin and Clark, 2000). Research on tailoring has explored augmentation and exclusion operations on operating systems (North and Shneiderman, 2000), groupware (Wulf et al, 1999), and coordination systems (Cortes, 2000). In operating system visualization work by North and Shneiderman (2000) and Dumas and Parsons (1995), best views of operating system windows were identified that functionally support user defined modifications.…”

Section: Component Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

Germonprez

Hovorka

Collopy

2007

JAIS

106

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Tailorable technologies are a class of information systems designed with the intention that users modify and redesign the technology in the context of use. Tailorable technologies support user goals, intentions, metaphor, and use patterns in the selection and integration of technology functions in the creation of new and unique information systems. We propose a theory of tailorable technology design and identify principles necessary for the initial design. Following a Kantian style of inquiry, we identified four definitional characteristics of tailorable technology: a dual design perspective, user engagement, recognizable environments, and component architectures. From these characteristics, we propose nine design principles that will support the phenomenon of tailoring. Through a year-long case study, we refined and evidenced the principles, finding found that designers of tailorable technologies build environments in which users can both interact and engage with the technology, supporting the proposed design principles. The findings highlight a distinction between a reflective environment, where users recognize and imagine uses for the technology, and an active environment in which users tailor the technology in accordance with the imagined uses. This research contributes to the clarification of the role of theory in design science, expands the concept of "possibilities for action" to IS design, and proposes a design theory of a class of information systems for testing and refinement.

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Section: Component Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

Germonprez

Hovorka

Collopy

2007

JAIS

106

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“…Some researchers have explored the opportunities for the design of flexible software toolkits (e.g. Malone et al, 1995;Wasserschaff and Bentley, 1997;Dourish and Keith, 2000) while others have focused on modeling languages (Cortes, 2000;Ellis and Keddara, 2000), design patterns (Hummes and Merialdo, 2000), or the technical foundations of flexible component-based system (Koch, 1995;Teege, 2000).…”

Section: Tailoring and Adaptation In Cscwmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensemaking in Technology-Use Mediation: Adapting Groupware Technology in Organizations

Bansler

Havn

2006

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Understanding how people in organizations appropriate and adapt groupware technologies to local contexts of use is a key issue for CSCW research, since it is critical to the success of these technologies. In this paper, we argue that the appropriation and adaptation of groupware and other types of advanced CSCW technologies is basically a problem of sensemaking. We analyze how a group of ''technology-use mediators'' (Orlikowski et al. Org. Sci. (1995) 6(4), 423) in a large, multinational company adapted a groupware technology (a ''virtual workspace'') to the local organizational context (and vice versa) by modifying features of the technology, providing ongoing support for users, and promoting appropriate conventions of use. Our findings corroborate earlier research on technology-use mediation, which suggests that such mediators can exert considerable influence on how a particular technology will be established and used in an organization. However, we also find that the process of technology-use mediation is much more complex and indeterminate than prior research suggests. The reason being, we argue, that new, advanced CSCW technologies, such as ''virtual workspaces'' and other groupware applications, challenge the mediators' and users' sensemaking, because the technologies are equivocal and, therefore, open to many possible and plausible interpretations.

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“…Our goal was to design and implement a coordination programming language that allow programmers build flexible groupware applications. DCWPL [3] enables programmers to specify how users can share information, as opposed to a computational language that allows programmers define the information that is being shared among a group of users. Moreover, several coordination programs can be developed for a given computational application.…”

Section: Coordination Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

An Implementation Model for Collaborative Applications

Cortés

Mishra²

2018

CLEIej

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A major challenge in building groupware systems is to provide support for control and coordina- tion of users actions on shared resources. This support includes the maintenance of the current state of the collaborative multi-user environment such as control of group interaction rules and coordination of users actions or tasks. We propose an extension of the visual presentation/underlying data model currently followed when developing interactive single user applications. We claim that groupware systems require two additional components: user-related data and group interaction rules. The former component maintains information about active users, their roles, and privileges. While the latter keeps the state of the current collaborative environment to control and coordinate user actions. Furthermore, our approach allows developers build each system component separately, promoting the decom- position of the application’s computational objects and its collaborative environment specifica- tion.

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A Coordination Language For Building Collaborative Applications

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

Sensemaking in Technology-Use Mediation: Adapting Groupware Technology in Organizations

An Implementation Model for Collaborative Applications

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