Timeline collaboration

Abstract

This paper explores timelines as a web-based tool for collaboration between citizens and municipal caseworkers. The paper takes its outset in a case study of planning and control of parental leave; a process that may involve surprisingly many actors. As part of the case study, a webbased timeline, CaseLine, was designed. This design crosses the boundaries between leisure and work, in ways that are different from what is often seen in current HCI. The timeline has several roles on these boundaries: It is a shared planning and visualization tool that may be used by parents and caseworkers alone or together, it serves as a contract and a sandbox, as a record and a plan, as inspiration for planning and an authoritative road, as a common information space and a fragmented exchange. Serving all these roles does not happen smoothly, and the paper discusses the challenges of such timeline interaction in, and beyond this case.

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“…The general response to the use of the framework, was that after passing the initial hurdle of learning the work flow of the framework, it can save a developer a lot of time, compared to having to writing the validation of client and server side by hand. One of the authors (not the original developer of AdapForms) have utilised the AdapForms framework in the context of the eGov+ project, as reported in [2,3]. Our experience with the framework closely resembles those reported above.…”

“…However, this is not possible in the case of repeated sub-forms, where the user may specify any number of occurrences of a given data type. In these cases, an extra annotation level to the instance paths is introduced, so the paths become /applicant/jobs[1]/company and /applicant/jobs [2]/company for the first and second repeat, respectively. This syntax is also similar to XPath.…”

“…The framework has also been used in connection with the parental leave case of the eGov+ project and included in the prototype developed in connection with this case and described in [2,3].…”

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“…One typical format in the context of Futures Research is a timeline, like in the case of the applications Web of Fate and the New York Times Technology Timeline. Just as with Gantt-Charts and Roadmaps, these timelines have the advantage of organising Futures related data into a time context [90]. Foresight 2.0 applications additionally benefit from an application programming interface (API) or export features to ensure applicability of results.…”

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