Activity-centric support for ad hoc knowledge work - A case study of co-Activity Manager

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2263-2272

  Houben, Steven ^a   Bardram, Jakob E ^a   Vermeulen, Jo ^b   Luyten, Kris ^b   Coninx, Karin ^b  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Activity centric computing; Collaborative work; Desktop interface

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; ACTIVITY-CENTRIC COLLABORATION; ACTIVITY-CENTRIC COMPUTING; COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES; COLLABORATIVE WORK; DESKTOP INTERFACES; DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION; MULTIDISCIPLINARY SOFTWARE;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MANAGERS;

EID: 84877977031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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