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The following topics are dealt: visual programming environment; distributed collaborative learning; multilingual conference support system; workflow support systems; and mobile ad hoc collaboration.
This paper presents an overview of visual programming environment named Splish which enables an icon-based visual programming to develop a program which runs on a microcontroller board family called Arduino which is a popular platform for physical computing. A user program can be developed visually on a PC side, and the compiled code will be transferred to the microcontroller board so that runtime...
Contemporary development environments do not directly and explicitly support developers in having a conversation about the code they write and maintain. This problem is aggravated when geographically dispersed teams need to collaborate on development artifacts. CodeTalk allows developers to have conversations about source code elements. They can mark code sections they are concerned about and annotate...
Nowadays, individuals are increasingly brought together to work in communities and groups towards a common goal. We developed the Collaboration Platform, a set of modules and libraries which aims at facilitating and offering support to a set of procedures commonly found within collaborative environments. In this particular paper we present employment of this platform as the main development base for...
For foreign students attending lectures held in a language other than their own, there is a limit to the amount of information they are able to retain. An "all-for-one" multilingual conference system has been developed that provides support for such students. "All-for-one" means that native speakers support the presence of foreign students, and in this system, assistance is provided...
In this paper, we present Zuzie2, a computer application designed to help people extend their interpretation of the meaning of their activities, and propose that Zuzie2 is effective in cultivating the power of understanding and expression. In an earlier paper we presented the Constructive Scrapbook computer application which has the potential to make the user analyze expressions, extract significances...
This paper presents a study of the learning process in a distance collaborative learning environment with a chat system and a Wiki, and development of a new chat system based on the study. Collaborative learning as the combination of conversation and collaborative work was investigated, which revealed 1) There is a time lag between conversation and work, 2) Awareness of other learners is problematic...
Workflow Support System(WSS) is an information system intended to manage the cooperative work following a workflow description aiming at improvement of organizational function. To archive the goal, WSS tries to manage people's work, it also have to be considered that the working people have various condition such as work time and skill level. This research proposes to use simulation of WSS to evaluate...
The post-cognitive theories provide frameworks within which dynamic phenomenon can be conceptualized. The activities can be human-centric or machine-centric or a combination of both. It is interesting to study how the frameworks compare and contrast in a specific context. In this paper, four post-cognitive theories are compared to elucidate their commonalities and differences in the context of collaboration...
Collaborative environments possess highly competitive settings not only from an individual's perspective, but also from the whole group's point-of-view. It starts becoming necessary to assess what makes users feel more compelled to collaborate with each other in such settings as well as identifying key interactive patterns which affect their behaviors. This assessment is becoming more and more possible...
In this paper, the problems facing designers of peer-to-peer instant messaging protocols, specifically those intended to run over mobile ad-hoc networks, are discussed. In particular, the challenges of identity management and presence dissemination are addressed, with an efficient and user-friendly protocol described that solves them. As a side effect, a form of social network mining is offered that...
Efficient collaboration and task management is challenging in distributed, dynamically-formed organizations such as ad hoc disaster response teams. Ineffective collaboration may result in poor performance and loss of life. In this paper, we present Overseer, an open multi-agent system that leverages context information in a mobile setting to facilitate collaboration and task allocation. We describe...
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