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Abstract | ||
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Due to the proliferation of computer networks the electronic support of geographically distributed groups has become increasingly
important. With respect to groups we can distinguish between teams and communities. In general, team members know each other
and collaborate to achieve a common goal while community members have just common interests or preferences. Often there is
no personal contact between community members. The electronic support for both group types has developed independently. While
community support systems concentrated mostly on the building process, i.e. finding people with similar interests, groupware
focused on the collaboration process, i.e. the synchronization and exchange of information in the context of a specific team
task. The paper proposes awareness as a common base for both community support systems to improve contact building as well
as for groupware to maintain group work at a high performance level. We discuss communities and teams in educational settings
and propose an architecture which integrates the awareness mechanism.
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Year | DOI | Keywords |
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1998 | 10.1007/3-540-49247-X_6 | community support,community member,contact building,common interest,common goal,community support system,common link,awareness mechanism,electronic support,collaboration process,building process,common base,computer network |
Field | DocType | ISBN |
Information system,Recommender system,Architecture,Exchange of information,Computer science,Collaborative software,Decision support system,Group work,Knowledge management,Discussion group | Conference | 3-540-65475-5 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
31 | 3.16 | 13 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johann H. Schlichter | 1 | 113 | 16.73 |
| Michael Koch | 2 | 70 | 9.34 |
| Chengmao Xu | 3 | 31 | 3.16 |