GATiB-CSCW, Medical Research Supported by a Service-Oriented Collaborative System

  • Authors:
  • Konrad Stark;Jonas Schulte;Thorsten Hampel;Erich Schikuta;Kurt Zatloukal;Johann Eder

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna, Austria;Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany;Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany;Dept. of Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna, Austria;Institute of Pathology, Medical University Graz, Austria;Dept. of Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna, Austria and Dept. of Informatics Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Medical research is a collaborative process in an interdisciplinary environment that may be effectively supported by a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) system. Such a system imposes specific requirements in order to allow flexible integration of data, analysis services and communication mechanisms. Persons with different expertise and access rights cooperate in mutually influencing contexts (e.g. clinical studies, research cooperations). Thus, appropriate virtual environments are needed to facilitate context-aware communication, deployment of biomedical tools as well as data and knowledge sharing. We systematically elaborate the main requirements of a medical CSCW system and present a conceptual model, as well as an architectural proposal satisfying the demands. We design a prototypical virtual workbench to support research and routine activities in the context of the GATiB (Genome Austria Tissue Bank) initiative.