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In early stages of design and modeling, computers and computer applications are often considered an obstacle, rather than a facilitator of the process. Most notably, brainstorms, process modeling with business experts, or development planning, are often performed by a team in front of a whiteboard. While ”whiteboarding” is recognized as an effective tool, low-tech solutions that allow remote participants to contribute are still not generally available.
This is a striking observation, considering that vast majority of teams in large organizations are distributed teams. And this has also been one of the key triggers behind the project described in this article, where a team of corporate researchers decided to identify state of the art technologies that could facilitate the scenario mentioned above.
This paper is an account of a research project in the area of enterprise collaboration, with a strong focus on the aspects of human computer interaction in mixed mode environments, especially in areas of collaboration where computers still play a secondary role. It is describing a currently running corporate research project.
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Kowalkiewicz, M. (2012). IdeaWall: Mixed Mode Distributed Collaboration in Enterprise Environments. In: Abramowicz, W., Kriksciuniene, D., Sakalauskas, V. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30359-3_12
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