NDLI: A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Geo-Collaborative Systems

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Author	Antunes, Pedro André, Paula
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Geo-collaborative systems address the computational support to situations where people are working in different locations, gathering geographically-related data in the field and sharing knowledge. We propose a conceptual framework identifying the design issues that fundamentally set the stage for eliciting the requirements of geo-collaborative systems. The conceptual framework has five elements: places, teams, tasks, artifacts and geo-referenced knowledge. We also highlight two important relationships between some of these elements: (1) a task-artifact relationship, related with the need to increase the organizational decision making abilities through concerted efforts; and (2) an artifact-knowledge relationship, related with the need to support mechanisms for jointly understanding geo-referenced data. The conceptual framework was applied to the development of a groupware tool aiming to increase the productivity of the geological mapping process followed by a national agency with competence in this area. The paper describes in detail how the conceptual framework influenced the groupware design. The obtained results indicate that the framework can focus the designers on the human aspects of geo-collaboration and guide them through the initial design stages.
Starting Page	273
Ending Page	295
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09262644
Journal	Group Decision and Negotiation
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15729907
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-05-23
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	geo-collaboration geo-collaborative systems geo-informatics groupware sensemaking Social Sciences Operations Research/Decision Theory
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Strategy and Management Social Sciences Management of Technology and Innovation Decision Sciences

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