ProSEC: research group on HCI and CSCW
ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin
Component-based tailorability: Enabling highly flexible software applications
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A collaborative approval process for accessing sensitive data
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Towards a user-oriented environment for web services composition
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on End-user software engineering
Announcing activity: design and evaluation of an intentionally enriched awareness service
Human-Computer Interaction
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Tailorability is generally regarded as a key property of groupware systems due to the dynamics and diversity of cooperative work. This article investigates the use of software components as a generic architectural concept for designing tailorable groupware applications. First, the issues raised by this approach are discussed. The results of a first exploratory experiment led us to concentrate on the support of distributed tailorable CSCW applications. We discuss the question of an appropriate component model and develop requirements for a platform for the flexible deployment of distributed component-based applications. As a consequence of these reflections, we have developed the FLEXIBEANS component model and the EVOLVE platform whose design principles are described. Furthermore, an application example using the approach to design a tailorable distributed coordination tool is given. Finally, we summarize and propose venues of further research.