Activity Explorer: Activity-centric collaboration from research to product Export

@article{citeulike:966481, 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.}, author = {Geyer, W. and Muller, M. J. and Moore, M. T. and Wilcox, E. and Cheng, L. T. and Brownholtz, B. and Hill, C. and Millen, D. R.}, citeulike-article-id = {966481}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj45-4.html}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/454/geyer.html}, journal = {IBM Systems Journal}, keywords = {activity, collaboration}, number = {4}, posted-at = {2006-12-05 13:10:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Activity Explorer: Activity-centric collaboration from research to product}, url = {http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj45-4.html}, volume = {45}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:966481 L3 - citeulike-article-id:966481 N2 - 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. IS - 4 JF - IBM Systems Journal TI - Activity Explorer: Activity-centric collaboration from research to product VL - 45 KW - activity KW - collaboration AU - Geyer, W AU - Muller, MJ AU - Moore, MT AU - Wilcox, E AU - Cheng, LT AU - Brownholtz, B AU - Hill, C AU - Millen, DR PY - 2006/// UR - http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj45-4.html ER -