Abstract:

New paradigms such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) and User Centred Design (Von Hippel, 2005) as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009a) promote a distributed collaboration approach. However, a number of identified distances (Pallot, 2010a), abundantly described in the literature, raise collaboration barriers which affect the effectiveness and efficiency

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ECOSPACE newsletter double issue n°9 & 10 including latest project development on the Collaborative Environment Reference Architecture and Basic Collaborative Services as well as Shaping the Future of ENoLL and AMI Communities.

Take a look at the 4 short videos about Collaborative Working Environments produced by the ECOSPACE project:

1. Introducing the ECOSPACE Vision 
2. Presenting Trends & Paradigms related to Collaboration
3. Showing Concepts & Tools supporting  Collaborative Environments
4. Overviewing Architecture and Interoperable Collaborative Services

 

 

The ECOSPACE project is making progress on the realisation of Interoperable Collaborative Working Environments (ICWE) as a promise about having a kind of mobile phone GSM standard communication protocol for collaborative tools that they could interact with each other in order to better serve the users.

The motivation is to have collaboration tools interacting with one another in a simple way as

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Following the first special issue of the ECOSPACE Newsletter which was dedicated to the topic of Living Lab, here is the second special issue dedicated to the topic of interoperability within Collaborative Environments. ECOSPACE project is very active in the Open Collaborative Architecture Working Group (OCA WG) where other Collaborative Environments Integrated Projects (IP)are also involved, such ...more

All papers on Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) are online and available for free within the ICE'2008 conference proceedings

Click on the following topics:

• Collaborative Systems
• Innovation and Living Labs

Whether you have an interest in Living Labs and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) artefacts exploration and experimentation then take a look at the following paper which has been presented at the CWE'08 event that took place during the ICE'2008 conference in Lisbon from 23 to 25 June 2008.

Here is the link to this paper which is reporting about an empirical study conducted through

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