Wide Area Collaboration
Wide Area Collaboration
Problem
- Wide area collaboration for operations design or review is likely to be chaotic
- Dispersed Participants
- Different Organizational Cultures and Procedures
- Distributed and Changing Information Environments
- Large Fan-Ins
- Limited Process Management Resources
- Example: Online Newsgroups
Technology
- COMLINK Environment
- Assertion-Based Information Access
Approach
- Develop Self-Extending, Self-Indexing System
- Conversation Grammars to Constrain Linking
- Semantic Tags for Linking & Accessing Inputs
- Generate Interfaces
- Display Interaction Flows
- Restrict User Input and Access
- Provide Online Review & Editing
Result