Local and Global Electronic Calendaring

该研究项目建议研究群件日历系统在广泛采用它们的一些组织中的使用情况。由于本地日历实践因站点而异，因此产生了不同的日历文化，在这些组织中提供不同的协调行为。此外，因特网工程任务组(IETF)为支持日历应用程序互操作性而创建的开放标准即将可用，这意味着日历可以更容易地跨组织边界(即，在企业、公共机构和家庭之间)共享。因此，在各组织之间使用共享群件日历(即“全球日历”做法)有了新的机会。PI将审查IETF-CALSH标准设计及其对企业和家庭环境中日历使用和技术采用的潜在影响，并特别关注合并专业日历和个人日历的做法和影响。这项研究将促进我们对组织内部和跨组织以及家庭和工作之间的集体时间管理实践的理解。

This research project proposes to study the use of groupware calendar systems within a number of organizations that have widely adopted them. Because local calendaring practices vary from site to site, the result is a variety of calendar cultures that afford different coordination behaviors within these organizations. In addition, the imminent availability of open standards created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in support of calendar application interoperability means that calendars can more easily be shared across organizational boundaries (i.e., between businesses, public institutions and homes.) Thus, there are new opportunities for the use of shared groupware calendars across organizations (i.e., "global calendaring" practices). The PI will examine the IETF-Calsh standards design and their potential impacts on calendaring use and technology adoption across businesses as well as in home environments, with special attention to the practices and impacts of merging professional and personal calendars. This research will advance our understanding of collective time management practices within and across organizations, as well as between home and work.