NDLI: CoFra: Towards structurally selecting ICT tools and methods in multidisciplinary distributed projects

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sahni, D. Van den Bergh, J. Coninx, K.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Hasselt University - tUL - IBBT, Wetenschapspark 2, 3590 Diepenbeek - Belgium (Sahni, D.; Van den Bergh, J.; Coninx, K.)
Abstract	ICT tools and working methods are important to effectively work together in cross-organizational, multi-disciplinary projects. At the moment, there is no or very limited support to enable sharing knowledge about which ICT tools to use for collaboration and how to use them. In this paper we propose CoFra, a collaboration framework that facilitates stakeholders to share knowledge about ICT tools and work practices to improve the collaboration in dispersed multi-disciplinary teams. CoFra supports two main mechanisms: collaboration variables identifying characteristics of ICT tools and workflow to express best practices. Two prototype applications were created based upon the framework. A first user evaluation of these prototype applications shows that (1) the defined collaboration variables used are relevant and useful in the selection of ICT tool support and (2) that workflow depiction can improve knowledge sharing practices over traditional wiki usage.
Starting Page	188
Ending Page	197
File Size	343134
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424466191
e-ISBN	9781424466221
DOI	10.1109/CTS.2010.5478509
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-05-17
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Communication effectiveness Collaborative tools Decision making Programming Workflow Best practices Dispersion Tool Selection Prototypes Collaboration Collaborative work ICT Usability Framework
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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