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Hierarchy and Competition in CSCW applications: Model and case study

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/4628
ISSN: 1166-8636
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1998
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Hermes Science Publishing
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CSCW applications need to adapt themselves to the functional and organizational structures of people that use them. However they do not usually support division in groups with a certain hierarchical structure among them. In this paper, we propose and study a theoretical model of groupware appliations that reflects those hierarchical interactions. The proposed model is also intended to evaluate the effects in performance derived from competitive and collaborative relationships among the components of a hierarchy of groups. In order to demonstrate the above ideas, a groupware game, called Alymod, was designed and implemented using a modified version of a well-known CSCW Toolkit, namely Groupkit. Groupkit was modified in order to support group interactions in the same CSCW application. In Alymod, participants compete or collaborate within a hierarchical structure to achieve a common goal (completing gaps in a text, finishing numerical series, resolving University course examinations, etc.).
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Hierarchical system, cooperation-competition, groupware
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Journal of Decision Systems, 1998, vol. 7 SI, p. 239-261.
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