Concepts for usable patterns of groupware applications

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Beitragende

  • Thomas Herrmann - , Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund (Autor:in)
  • Marcel Hoffmann - , Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund (Autor:in)
  • Isa Jahnke - , Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund (Autor:in)
  • Andrea Kienle - , Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund (Autor:in)
  • Gabriele Kunau - , Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund (Autor:in)
  • Kai Uwe Loser - , Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund (Autor:in)
  • Natalja Menold - , Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund (Autor:in)

Abstract

Patterns, which are based on in-depth practical experience, can be instructing for the design of groupware applications as sociotechnical systems. On the basis of a summary of the concept of patterns - as elaborated by the architect Christopher Alexander - its adoptions within computer science are retraced and relationships to the area of groupware are described. General principles for patterns within this domain are formulated and supported by examples from a wide range of experience with knowledge management systems. The analysis reveals that every pattern of a groupware application has to combine the description of social as well as technical structures, and that a single pattern can only be understood in the context of a pattern language. It also shows that such a language has to integrate patterns of socio-technical solutions with measures and procedures for introducing them, and that the language not only has to express one type of directed relationship between the patterns but a variety of different types which have to be deliberately assigned to the patterns.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten349-358
Seitenumfang10
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2003
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Konferenz

TitelGROUP'03: Proceedings of the 2003 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
Dauer9 - 12 November 2003
StadtSanibel Island, FL
LandUSA/Vereinigte Staaten

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0003-1106-474X/work/151436760

Schlagworte

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Schlagwörter

  • CSCW, Knowledge management, Pattern, Pattern language, Socio-technical systems