Selecting Computing Devices to Support Mobile Collaboration

Guerrero, Luis A.; Ochoa, Sergio F.; Pino, José A.; Collázos, César A.

doi:10.1007/s10726-006-9020-3

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“…In contrast to analogue, the digital radio enables to transmit data on a narrow-band, but the rate is limited to 3 kbit/s, which does not allow transmitting much data, like multimedia. Based on empirical studies Guerrero et al (2006) and Peng et al (2007) developed conception frameworks, which determine appropriate devices besides digital radio for certain cooperation contexts. Both frameworks deem tablet PCs and PDAs as the most suitable in terms of mobility.…”

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“…However, in order to articulate information needs, infrastructures are needed. Independent from knowledge about both frameworks for selecting devices for specific contexts (Guerrero et al, 2006;Peng et al, 2007) the interviewees confirmed: "if we're talking about an ideal situation, then I have a smartphone in my patrol car and the officer-in-charge uses a different device that gives him even more functionality" (IM04). Right now the communication path is still via radio, but smartphones are already used for purposes like using Google Maps for satellite views or navigation (I04), because the control centre gives an address and the on-site team often does not know the exact location.…”

Section: Articulation Of Information Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Calendars: Time Coordination and Overview in Families and Beyond

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Grönvall

2013

ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, C

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ECSCW 2013 received 82 competitive paper and note submissions. After extensive review, 15 were selected to form the core of the traditional single-track technical programme for the conference. These are supplemented by exciting workshops and masterclasses that cover a broad range of topics and allow for wider and more active participation. These additional contributions will be published in the Volume 2 Proceedings, together with the expanded selection of demonstrations, videos, and work in progress.Work in progress has been introduced as a new peer reviewed category for ECSCW 2013, and those papers will be included in the Volume 2 Proceedings that will be available online.The technical program this year focuses on work and the enterprise as well as on the challenges of involving citizens, patients, and others into collaborative settings. The papers embrace new theories, and discuss known ones. They challenge the ways we think about and study work and contribute to the discussions of the blurring boundaries between home and work life. They introduce recent and emergent technologies, and study known social and collaborative technologies. Classical settings in computer supported cooperative work are looked upon anew. With contributions from all over the world, the papers in interesting ways help focus on the European perspective in our community.Many people have worked hard to ensure the success of this conference, and we briefly acknowledge them here: all the authors who submitted high quality papers; all those who contributed through taking part in workshops, masterclasses, demonstrations, and the new category of work in progress; the 64 members of a global programme committee, who dedicated time and energy to reviewing and discussing individual contributions and shaping the programme; the people who helped organise the programme: the workshop and masterclass chairs, the chairs of demos and videos, work in progress, student volunteers, and various other practical arrangements. Finally, we acknowledge the student volunteers who provided support throughout the event; and we thank the sponsors and those who offered their support to the conference. Abstract. The title of this paper comes from comments made by an 'angry' ethnographer during a debriefing session. It reflects his frustration with a certain analytic mentality that would have him justify his observations in terms of the number of times he had witnessed certain occurrences in the field. Concomitant to this was a concern with the amount of time he had spent in the field and the implication that the duration of fieldwork somehow justified the things that he had seen; the implication being that the more time he spent immersed in the study setting the more valid his findings and, conversely, the less time, the less valid they were. For his interlocutors, these issues speak to the grounds upon which we might draw general insights and lessons from ethnographic research regarding the social or collaborative organisation of human activities. However, the strong i...

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Articulation Of Information Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Calendars: Time Coordination and Overview in Families and Beyond

Bødker

Grönvall

2013

ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, C

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“…Although using these applications is better than using paper-based information, they do not support instances for collaboration among the actors involved in the inspection process. In addition, these solutions are based on PDAs, therefore they have several usability problems to do hand-written annotations (Guerrero et al 2006;Ochoa et al 2007). In fact, COIN also runs on PDAs, but our usability tests indicated that platform is not appropriate to support construction inspection processes: PDAs are not comfortable enough to input unstructured and intensive data (Guerrero et al 2006).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, there are collaborative solutions proposed to support mobile workers in specific settings (André and Antunes 2004;Guerrero et al 2006;MenchacaMendez et al 2004;Muñoz et al 2003;Zurita et al 2005), different to construction management. These proposals have shown to be useful to support particular collaborative processes; however, they were not designed as general solutions, therefore it is not easy to reuse or adapt them.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating Loosely-Coupled Work in Construction Inspection Activities

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Artículo de publicación ISIInspections represent key activities in construction projects. They allow coordinating the work of the main contractor and the subcontracted companies participating in the project. Today the inspection activities and the coordination process are done using information recorded into paper-based blueprints. As a consequence of it, coordinating the activities derived from inspection processes become expensive, slow and error-prone. This paper presents a mobile shared workspace, named COIN (Construction Inspector), which helps the participants in a construction project to overcome these limitations. COIN was particularly designed to be used on tablet PCs, but it is able to run on several computing devices. This workspace has been tested in a controlled work scenario. The preliminary results are highly positive, indicating this proposal could have an important impact on the construction management process.This work was partially supported by Fondecyt (Chile), grants No: 11060467 and 1080352

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“…ColaboQuim is designed on top of a hardware architecture shown in figure 2. This architecture design was based on our previous work [7,8].…”

Section: Colaboquimmentioning

confidence: 99%