CAREER: Integrating CSCW Technology and Practice using Metalevel Architectures

协作小组是动态的事务，其中的活动模式、工作方式、互动程度、信息结构和其他要素根据开展工作的环境和背景而动态地出现。相比之下，我们提供的支持协作的技术是静态的和僵化的。传统的软件体系结构仅支持有限程度的适应和动态响应。结合分析、设计和评估，本研究调查了元级体系结构，这是一种从根本上支持动态应用程序响应的替代方法。如果成功，这将产生应用程序和应用程序平台，为协作提供比目前可能的更无缝的支持。它还在CSCW研究的两个主要领域--社会分析和技术设计之间建立了新的联系。这两个感兴趣的领域之间的复杂关系是研究和教学的重大挑战。这项研究进一步支持了对新一代CSCW研究人员的培训，他们不仅熟悉拼图的两个部分，而且拥有将它们组合在一起的技能。

Collaborating groups are dynamic affairs in which patterns of activity, working styles, levels of interaction, information structures and other elements emerge dynamically in response to the circumstances and settings in which work is carried out. In contrast, the technologies that we offer to support collaboration are static and rigid. Conventional software architectures support only limited degrees of adaptation and dynamic response. Combining analysis, design, and evaluation, this research investigates metalevel architectures, an alternative approach supporting radically dynamic application response. If successful, this will yield both applications and application platforms which provide much more seamless support for collaboration than is currently possible. It also forges new connections between the two major areas of CSCW research, social analysis and technical design. The complex relationship between these two areas of interest is a major challenge to research and teaching. This research further supports the training of a new generation of CSCW researchers who are not just familiar with both halves of the puzzle, but have the skills to put them together.