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Studying Appropriation in Activity-Centric Collaboration

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Overview This paper describes a case study of appropriation of a research prototype by a 33- member research community, leading to reinvention of the prototype and a successful transfer to product. Based on those experiences, the paper proposes some lessons learned about designing for appropriation. This paper contains two sections. The major section describes a case study of appropriation in an activity-centric collaboration environment. The second section proposes lessons learned about designing for appropriation in collaborative computing environments.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Development and Design, Collaborative Web, Collaboration Tools

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