Media spaces: bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment
Communications of the ACM
Integration of interpersonal space and shared workspace: ClearBoard design and experiments
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
User embodiment in collaborative virtual environments
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Shared spaces: transportation, artificiality, and spatiality
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Cooperative work environment using virtual workspace
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Logic of Change: Semantics of Object Systemswith Active Relations
Automated Software Engineering
A Middleware Infrastructure for Active Spaces
IEEE Pervasive Computing
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OOIS '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems
Object-Oriented Model for Representing Software Production Processes
ECOOP '97 Proceedings of the Workshops on Object-Oriented Technology
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Enterprise information systems IV
Introduction to multiple and collaborative tasks
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Case handling: a new paradigm for business process support
Data & Knowledge Engineering
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Though the concept of shared spaces had been known for quite a while, it did not become popular until the arrival of the internet and social software. Via this way, the concept has penetrated other IT-areas, including the area of Business Process Management, which brings about the needs of investigating the usage of shared spaces in connection to Business Process Support (BPS). The first part of this experience report describes the authors' experience of building, introducing in the operational practice, and using BPS systems based on the shared spaces architecture. It presents three examples of applications aimed at supporting collaboration/communication in the frame of business process instances. These systems use three different mechanisms for arranging communication/collaboration. The first system is based on collaborative planning; the second one is based on the specialized structure of the shared spaces, and the third one on changes in the status of the processes. The second part of the paper is devoted to the analysis of the examples from the first part in order to create a preliminary taxonomy of communication styles in systems with shared spaces architecture. For this end, the authors identified three binary parameters that characterize the way invitations to visit a shared space are issued. These parameters can be used for analyzing communication capabilities of BPS systems, as well as other types of computer systems, with the shared spaces architecture.