Integrating awareness in cooperative applications through the reaction-diffusion metaphor

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 495-530

  Simone, Carla ^a   Bandini, Stefania ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Awareness model; Cooperation; CSCW architecture; Metaphors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTEROPERABILITY;

AWARENESS MODEL; BY-PRODUCT AWARENESS; SOFTWARE MODULE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0036963707     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021213119071     Document Type: Article

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