Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings
Communications of the ACM
Semistructured messages are surprisingly useful for computer-supported coordination
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems
Communications of the ACM
Supporting collaboration in Hypermedia: issues and experiences
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Support of cooperative work by electronic circulation folders
COCS '90 Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEE CS TC-OA conference on Office information systems
TeamWorkStation: towards a seamless shared workspace
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Distributed multiparty desktop conferencing system: MERMAID
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
What is coordination theory and how can it help design cooperative work systems?
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Groupware: some issues and experiences
Communications of the ACM
Distributed operation of the X.500 directory
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Studies in computer supported cooperative work
Cooperation, coordination and control in computer-supported work
Communications of the ACM
Integration of inter-personal space and shared workspace: ClearBoard design and experiments
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Supporting collaborative writing of hyperdocuments in SEPIA
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Two years before the mist: experiences with Aquanet
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Design issues for a Dexter-based hypermedia system
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Hyperform: using extensibility to develop dynamic, open, and distributed hypertext systems
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Current Trends in Distributed Systems
New Results and New Trends in Computer Science
A language/action perspective on the design of cooperative work
Human-Computer Interaction
Review: Information services: an overview
Computer Communications
Multimedia communications for users
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Tasks have to be increasingly solved by teams whose members reside at remote locations. The management of crises is a typical task that poses a need for the spontaneous identification of expertise and subsequent cooperation between individuals and teams. Support for the formation of teams is a central aspect, which has been neglected by cooperative-work systems, labelled as groupware, until now. Most of today's systems are primarily aimed at groups that have already been formed. This paper presents a groupware system called TeamBuilder aimed at supporting team formation. TeamBuilder is being developed and tested as part of the research on CSCW at the Institut fur Informatik und Gesellschaft (IIG), Telematics Department, at Freiburg University. The paper is structured to give an overview of the basic infrastructure, architecture, concepts and work with TeamBuilder. The fundamental need identified is for a decentralized environment building upon the worldwide computer networking infrastructure which emphasizes information sharing and offers a spectrum of communication media. Information is kept by many individuals, building a pool of decentralized information sources. The intended benefit of the proposed decentralized infrastructure is the fostering of the participation of many individuals and organizations in information sharing by seamless transitions between individual and cooperative work at the user interface and networking level.