In der im Oldenbourg Verlag erscheinenden Zeitschrift “i-com” für interaktive und kooperative Medien ist zuletzt ein Themenheft zu AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) erschienen.

Das von Steffen Budweg, Myriam Lewkowicz, Claudia Müller und Alexander Richter herausgegebene Themenheft ist inzwischen online verfügbar.

Neben dem (Editorial) durch die Gastherausgeber ist folgender Beitrag zum Forschungsprojekt SI-Screen mit Mitwirkung unserer Forschungsgruppe entstanden:

• Social Interaction Screen. Making Social Networking Services Accessible for Elderly People.
  Martin Burkhard, Michael Koch, i-com Vol. 11, No. 3, December: 3–7. [.pdf]

Weitere Beiträge im Themenheft sind von Michael Prilla und Thomas Herrmann von der Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Federico Cabitza und Carla Simone von der Universität Milano-Bicocca; Hilda Tellioglu, Lisa Ehrenstrasser und Wolfgang Spreicer von der Universität Wien; Asarnusch Rashid, Christian Reichelt, Natilie Röll und Tom Zentek vom FZI Karlsruhe sowie von Steffen Budweg, Myriam Lewkowicz, Claudia Müller und Sandra Schering von den Universitäten Duisburg-Essen und Siegen.

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In den letzten Monaten haben wir mit anderen Mitstreitern ein Themenheft zu “Social Computing in Corporations” für die im Oldenbourg Verlag erscheinende Zeitschrift “it Information Technology” zusammengestellt.

Das Heft ist inzwischen online verfügbar: http://www.oldenbourg-link.com/toc/itit/54/5

Neben dem Editorial sind folgende beiden Beiträge mit Mitwirkung unserer Gruppe entstanden:

• A Review of Microblogging in the Enterprise, Alexander Stocker, Alexander Richter, and Kai Riemer, it – Information Technology, Vol. 54, No. 5, October: 205-211.
• Social Software Beyond the Desktop — Ambient Awareness and Ubiquitous Activity Streaming, Florian Ott and Michael Koch, it – Information Technology, Vol. 54, No. 5, October: 243-252.

Weitere Beiträge im Themenheft sind von Petra Schubert und Susan P. Williams von der Universität Koblenz-Landau, von Andrea Back und Peter Irmler von der Universität St. Gallen, von Wolfgang Prinz und Sabine Kolbenbach von Fraunhofer FIT sowie von Christoph Schmaltz und Imran Aziz von der Dachis Group.

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Der Artikel “Model-driven development of a person-centric mashup for social software” ist ab sofort vorab online verfügbar und erscheint in der nächsten Ausgabe des Journals “Social Network Analysis and Mining“.

Abstract:
Based on the success of social software, modern information and communication systems are continuously moving from an information-centric data perspective to a more person-centric view. Easy access to federated activity streams of colleagues and other awareness information that is aggregated from different distributed intra- and extra-organizational systems become more and more important for the daily knowledge work. The increasing number of platforms every person uses requires a flexible data integration solution that keeps track of the connections between the pieces of information and the persons involved in their creation in order to create a unified and aggregated view for work groups, teams and communities. This unified data collection is especially important for social network analysis and data mining as individual profiles and activities are meanwhile typically distributed over various source systems. In this paper we present the CommunityMashup, a person-centric multi-user data integration solution for social software and similar systems that facilitates data aggregation and filtering while retaining the link to the pieces of information in the source systems. To support continuous evolution and flexible integration of frequently changing heterogeneous APIs and interfaces, we apply a model-driven development approach based on a therefore created person-centric data model. In addition to the conceptual design of the CommunityMashup, we present a reference implementation based upon open source components. Our overall goal is to build a multi-user mashup middleware for social software that offers an universal entry point in combination with unified data access for different client devices and can be used in various application scenarios with regard to individually specified service levels, e.g. continuous availability.

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Call For Papers

Special Issue „Enterprise 2.0 / Social Computing in Corporations“
„it – Information Technology“ (www.it-information-technology.de)

With the Web 2.0 we have seen broad participation coming to the Internet. The Web evolved from a platform where only few people publish for a large number of readers to a platform where everybody can contribute.

Increasing participation and engagement is also an issue in corporations – particularly in the field of knowledge management. In addition to making a larger body of knowledge available, providing means to participate and thereby to be visible in the corporation can also help to improve the motivation of employees.

Since supporting participation and visibility in the corporation is closely related to supporting social interaction, the term Social Software was coined for the corresponding support software. Under the umbrella of the terms Social Computing (in Corporations) or Enterprise 2.0 science and industry are currently experimenting with the use of Social Software in organizations – to support participation of employees and make knowledge available when needed.

In this special issue we want to present the current state of the discussion and research on this topic (Enterprise 2.0) in selected contributions.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• basic methods and procedures
• technological trends
• new applications
• technopolitical aspects
• sociotechnical design parameters
• evaluation, success factors
• questions of standardization

Contributions should be written in English and should not be longer than 6 pages (each page about 5.000 characters without figures). See the “Instructions for Contributors” for more details. instructions_for_contributors.pdf

Deadlines:

• 31.12.2011 Title and short summary of article to guest editor (you can also contact the guest editor in advance to check if a topic might fit)
• 20.1.2012 Feedback from guest editor if proposed article is fitting
• 15.5.2012 Manuscript of article for review
• 15.7.2012 Feedback to manuscript from guest editor
• 31.8.2012 Camera Ready final version of article
• Publication planned in Issue 6 / 2012

Contact information of guest editor:
Michael Koch
Bundeswehr University Munich
E-Mail: michael.koch@unibw.de
Tel: +49 89 6004-3777

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