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Fiia: user-centered development of adaptive groupware systems

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Christopher Wolfe,

T.C. Nicholas Graham,

W. Greg Phillips,

Banani RoyAuthors Info & Claims

EICS '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

Pages 275 - 284

https://doi.org/10.1145/1570433.1570484

Published: 15 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Adaptive groupware systems support changes in users' locations, devices, roles and collaborative structure. Developing such systems is difficult due to the complex distributed systems programming involved. In this paper, we introduce Fiia, a novel architectural style for groupware. Fiia is user-centered, in that it allows easy specification of groupware structured around users' settings, devices and applications, and where adaptations are specified at a high level similar to scenarios. The Fiia.Net toolkit automatically maps Fiia architectures to a wide range of possible distributed systems, under control of an annotation language. Together, these allow developers to work at a high level, while retaining control over distribution choices.

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Fiia: user-centered development of adaptive groupware systems
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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EICS '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

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DOI:10.1145/1570433

General Chair:
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Queen's University, Canada
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University of Grenoble, France
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University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

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