2010-01-12: Workspace as collection of services
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Workspace is a collection of services which allow users to collaboratively work on a project together.
Bothma thesis, Designing a Generic Collaborative Working Environment ( M. A. Martinez-Carreras, 2007)
The functions describe the purpose that the workspace activity accomplishes: (Tang, 1998)
- Store Information - preserve information in some form for future recall, typically after attaining explicit group agreement
- Convey ideas - Transmitting ideas to others in some textual, graphic or gestural form
- Represent ideas - express tentative ideas in some tangible form to allow one's self to perceive, react and build on them
- Engage attention - directing attention to a region in the workspace, typically to refer to an object or to provide focus of attention
Workspace provides multiple views of object
- who is working on it
- what is it
- what resources support it
- what tools and methods were developed for it
- todo items about it
- history of development
- relationship to other projects/objects
- project plan/goals
