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Designing Mobile Shared Workspaces for Loosely Coupled Workgroups

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Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use (CRIWG 2007)

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Recent advances in mobile computing devices and wireless communication have brought the opportunity to transport the shared workspace metaphor to mobile work scenarios. Unfortunately, there are few guidelines to support the design of these mobile shared workspaces. This paper proposes a design process and several guidelines to support the modeling of these groupware systems. Particularly, workspaces that support loosely coupled workgroups. The process and guidelines are based on a literature review and authors’ experience in the development of mobile shared workspaces.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile., Blanco Encalada 2120, Santiago, Chile

    Andrés Neyem, Sergio F. Ochoa & José A. Pino

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Neyem, A., Ochoa, S.F., Pino, J.A. (2007). Designing Mobile Shared Workspaces for Loosely Coupled Workgroups. In: Haake, J.M., Ochoa, S.F., Cechich, A. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4715. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74812-0_14

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