Title
Activity explorer: activity-centric collaboration from research to product
Abstract
Activity Explorer is the first product from IBM that supports the notion of activity-centric collaboration. This new collaboration paradigm organizes and integrates resources, tools, and people around the computational concept of a work activity, with the goal of increasing work quality and efficiency. In essence, activity-centric collaboration is an important and compelling example of contextual collaboration. Activity Explorer emerged from a multiyear research effort on activity-centric collaboration. This paper presents an overview of the most significant milestones of this research program and highlights the most interesting findings. The research behind Activity Explorer is based on many empirical studies, design explorations, and infrastructural engineering and technical simulations. We demonstrate how our research not only influenced product direction, but also the IBM vision for activity-centric collaboration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1147/sj.454.0713
IBM Systems Journal
Field
DocType
Volume
Research program,IBM,Systems engineering,Engineering,Milestone (project management),Empirical research
Journal
45
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0018-8670
30
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.47
31
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Werner Geyer1128987.53
Michael J. Muller22310303.58
M. T. Moore3301.47
E. Wilcox4301.47
L.-T. Cheng5301.47
B. Brownholtz6301.47
C. Hill7301.81
David R. Millen82085163.74