Collaborative Working Environment

A Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) supports people (e.g., E-professionals) in their individual and cooperative work. Research in CWE involves organisational, technical, and social issues.

The following applications or services are considered as elements of a CWE:

• E-Mail
• Instant Messaging
• Application sharing
• Video Conferencing
• Collaborative workspace and Document Management
• Task- and Workflow-Management
• Wiki group or community effort to edit wiki pages (e.g. wiki pages describing concepts to enable a common understanding within a group or community)
• Blogging where entries are categorised by groups or communities or other concepts supporting collaboration

References

• New Collaborative Working Environments 2020, Collaboration@Work Experts Group, 15 March 2006
• Towards a middleware for collaborative work environments
• The Future Workspace, Hans Schaffers, Torsten Brodt, Marc Pallot, Wolfgang Prinz (editors), 1 March 2006

External links

• project website dedicated to eProfessionals Collaboration Space
• European Commission "New Working Environments" website for the wide public
• website for researchers
• Eworkforum.org Online discussion forum for E-work practitioners & researchers