Supporting Collaborative Work: A Tale of Two Projects

Опубликовано 17 августа 2016, 20:40

A substantial amount of work today is accomplished through collaborative activities, which may be open-ended and opportunistic or structured and well defined, with participants with similar skills and knowledge or from different disciplines. Our group has been investigating, and developing tools to support, several different scenarios of collaborative work. On one end of the spectrum, we have developed WikiDev2.0, a tool that supports the work of software- development teams by integrating information about relevant software artifacts on a wiki-based platform. On the other end, we have developed MERITS, a virtual-world platform that enables interdisciplinary health-sciences teams to practice (through simulation) their collaborative tasks. In this presentation, I will discuss the two projects and I will draw some general lessons from our experience.