One-hundred days in an activity-centric collaboration environment based on shared objects

Michael J. Muller, Werner Geyer, Beth Brownholtz, Eric Wilcox, David R. Millen
2004 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '04  
This paper describes a new collaboration technology that is carefully poised between informal, ad hoc, easy-to-initiate collaborative tools, vs. more formal, structured, and highoverhead collaborative applications. Our approach focuses on the support of lightweight, informally structured, opportunistic activities featuring heterogeneous threads of shared objects with dynamic membership. We introduce our design concepts, and we provide a detailed first look at data from the first 100 days of
more » ... e by 20 researchers and 13 interns, who both confirmed our hypotheses and surprised us by reinventing the technology in several ways.
doi:10.1145/985692.985740 dblp:conf/chi/MullerGBWM04 fatcat:5fwcd6rirvaddnewyn4oy4e2gm