Context-Sensitive Awareness Services for Communities of Practice

The eLogbook is a Web-Based collaborative environment particularly adapted to the needs of communities of practice. It is deployed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and developed within the framework of the Palette European Project. This paper presents the eLogbook “Context- Sensitive View” intended to increase the environment usability and acceptability by communities of practice and to support collaboration and communication by embedding different types of awareness “cues” within an innovative user- friendly interface

Tackling Acceptability Issues in Communities of Practice by Providing a Lightweight Email-based Interface to eLogbook: a Web 2.0 Collaborative Activity and Asset Management System

eLogbook is a Web-based collaborative environment designed for communities of practice. It enables users to manage joint activities, share related assets and get contextual awareness. In addition to the original Web- based access, an email-based eLogbook interface is under development. The purpose of this lightweight interface is twofold. First, it eases eLogbook access when using smart phones or PDA. Second, it eases eLogbook acceptance for community members hesitating to learn an additional Web environment. Thanks to the proposed interface, members of a community can benefit from the ease of use of an email client combined with the power of an activity and asset management system without burden. The Web-based eLogbook access can be kept for supporting further community evolutions, when participation becomes more regular and activities become more complex. This paper presents the motivation, the design and the incentives of the email-based eLogbook interface

Feed-Oriented Awareness Services for eLogbook Mobile Users

The eLogbook is a collaborative Web-based environment deployed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It consists of an activity- oriented space where a community of educators, teaching assistants and students can form groups, conduct activities and perform several actions over stored and shared assets. Moreover, the eLogbook offers awareness services in order to sustain collaboration and coordination among the community members. This paper presents adaptive feed-oriented services designed and implemented to deliver awareness to mobile users, taking into account their device limitations and their activity context

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