End-user controlled group formation and access rights management in a shared workspace system

• DOI: 10.1145/1031607.1031702
• Publication Date: 2005-01-30T17:58:48Z
• Authors: Joerg M. Haake; Anja Haake; Till Schümmer; Mohamed Bourimi; Britta Landgraf
• Keywords: Work space

Group formation and access rights management become crucial issues when shared workspaces are used to support flexible, emerging group work. End-Users should be able form groups adapt for changing workspaces. Current workspace systems do not this sufficiently. Our approach combines a room metaphor-based with the key-metaphor facilitating both, end-user controlled flexible management. An evaluation of during four month use has indicated that end-users can manage their spaces.