Dr. Yu You and Panu Åkerman from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland were presenting a poster about their Virtual Office Program. Their aim "is to explore new mobile technologies and architectures and leverage web technologies to enable smooth and ad-hoc collaboration and office work for enterprise and normal users with their PCs and mobile phones."

Amongst their main research areas

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During this years ECSCW, Alex Voss, Gary Olson, Meik Poschen and Steffen Budweg have been co-chairing a follow-up workshop on Collaboration in and for eResearch: http://www.e-researchcommunity.org/news/ecscw07/index.html

The event was a follow-up workshop to the CWE-VRE workshop in Edinburgh in May 2007 (also with participants from Ecospace).

Organized with a number of colleagues from the U

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Michael Muller (IBM research) presents an approach to aggregate activity relevant data based on a tag search. It allows the collection of information (tasks, documents, booksmarks, etc.) into an "activity", based on the tags asscoiated with the objects. An activity can be a document, a task, or a person. This research is part of IBMs work on activity centric computing and it fits very nicely with

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Together with Michael Koch (UniBW München), Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, Ecospace) organised a workshop on the relationship between CSCW/CWE and Web 2.0. Results of the workshop can be found in Michaels blog.

Presun Dewan (Univ. North Carolina) and Rajesh Hegde (Mircosoft Research) present an interesting approach to resolve version conflicts that occur in distributed software development. It is based on an automatic notification about potential conflicts based on an observation of the current user activities in distributed software development environments. The notification mechanism is combined with

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From the ECSCW 2007 conference in Limerick:

Today Carla Simone (Univ. Milano Bicocca) presented an interesting paper on conventions and awareness that aims at linking the provision of awareness information  with cooperation conventions. This research confirms our approach as it is closely related to the expectation awareness concept that has been implememted in BSCW in the context of Ecospace. 

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The proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) are now available on the WWW. They cover
the periode 1991 - 2005.

Springer/Kluwer has generously agreed to publish the proceedings free of charge under the Creative Commons copyright scheme.

Please find this large collection of relevant CWE papers at: http://www.ecscw.org