Activity Explorer: Activity-centric collaboration from research to product

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 713-738

  Geyer, Werner ^a   Muller, Michael J ^a   Moore, Martin Thomas ^b   Wilcox, Eric ^a,c   Cheng, Li Te ^a   Brownholtz, Beth ^a   Hill, Charles ^b   Millen, David R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c AIGA Boston Experience Design Computing Machinery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY-CENTRIC COLLABORATION; CONTEXTUAL COLLABORATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GROUPWARE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 33845210157     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: 00188670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.454.0713     Document Type: Review

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