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Developing Shared Context Within Group Stories

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Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use (CRIWG 2005)

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Eliciting and re-using knowledge within an organization requires a very structured communication process among its employees in order to avoid misunderstanding and confusion. The transfer of knowledge among actors can only be successful if a common interpretative focus and its context are set up. So far, information about the real context that surrounded team’s past activities can help their members to better understand situations at hand. In this paper, we argue that a combination of group storytelling technique and a groupware tool can help the elicitation and use of the context shared by a group. Moreover, our main goal is to discuss how groupware can help to structure and formalize the contextual information behind the scenes of a story told by a group, making it easier to understand, interpret and reuse the knowledge intrinsic to it.

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  1. Post-Graduate Program in Informatics, NCE&IM, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, PO Box 2324, CEP 20001-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Flávia Maria Santoro

  2. School of Applied Informatics, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur, 458, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Flávia Maria Santoro

  3. LIP 6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI, 8, rue de Capitain Scott, Paris, France

    Patrick Brézillon

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics, Brock University St. Catharines, L2S 3A1, ON, Canada

    Hugo Fukś

  2. Department for Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, 58084, Hagen, Germany

    Stephan Lukosch

  3. Center of Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco, PO Box 7851, Recife, PE, Brasil

    Ana Carolina Salgado

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Santoro, F.M., Brézillon, P. (2005). Developing Shared Context Within Group Stories. In: Fukś, H., Lukosch, S., Salgado, A.C. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11560296_18

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