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LWOAD: A Specification Language to Enable the End-User Develoment of Coordinative Functionalities

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2009)

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In this paper, we present an observational case study at a major teaching hospital, which both inspired and gave us valuable feedback on the design and development of LWOAD. LWOAD is a denotational language we propose to support users of an electronic document system in declaratively expressing, specifying and implementing computational mechanisms that fulfill coordinative requirements. Our focus addresses (a) the user-friendly and formal expression of local coordinative practices; (b) the agile mocking-up of corresponding functionalities; (c) the full deployment of coordination-oriented and context-aware behaviors into legacy electronic document systems. We give examples of LWOAD mechanisms taken from the case study and discuss their impact for the EUD of coordinative functionalities.

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  1. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, viale Sarca 336, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Federico Cabitza & Carla Simone

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  1. University of Siegen, Hölderlinstr. 3, 57068, Siegen, Germany

    Volkmar Pipek

  2. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

    Mary Beth Rosson

  3. Philips Research Europe, High Tech campus 34 - WB - 5.27, 5656 AE, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Boris de Ruyter

  4. Faculty of Information System and New Media, University of Siegen, Hölderlinstr. 3, 57068, Siegen, Germany

    Volker Wulf

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Cabitza, F., Simone, C. (2009). LWOAD: A Specification Language to Enable the End-User Develoment of Coordinative Functionalities. In: Pipek, V., Rosson, M.B., de Ruyter, B., Wulf, V. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00427-8_9

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