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WOAD: A Framework to Enable the End-User Development of Coordination-Oriented Functionalities

WOAD: A Framework to Enable the End-User Development of Coordination-Oriented Functionalities

Federico Cabitza, Carla Simone
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 22 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 20
ISSN: 1546-2234|EISSN: 1546-5012|EISBN13: 9781609603786|DOI: 10.4018/joeuc.2010101905
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Cabitza, Federico, and Carla Simone. "WOAD: A Framework to Enable the End-User Development of Coordination-Oriented Functionalities." JOEUC vol.22, no.2 2010: pp.1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2010101905

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Cabitza, F. & Simone, C. (2010). WOAD: A Framework to Enable the End-User Development of Coordination-Oriented Functionalities. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC), 22(2), 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2010101905

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Cabitza, Federico, and Carla Simone. "WOAD: A Framework to Enable the End-User Development of Coordination-Oriented Functionalities," Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) 22, no.2: 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2010101905

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Abstract

In this article, we present WOAD, a framework that was inspired and partly validated within a 2-year observational case study at a major teaching hospital. We present the WOAD framework by stating its main and motivating rationales, outlining its high-level architecture and then introducing its denotational language, LWOAD. We propose LWOAD to support users of an electronic document system in declaratively expressing, specifying and implementing content- and event-based mechanisms that fulfill coordinative requirements and make users aware of relevant conditions. Our focus addresses (a) the user-friendly and yet formal expression of local coordinative practices based on the work context; (b) the promotion of awareness of both these conventions and the context to enable actors to quickly respond; (c) the full deployment of coordination-oriented and context-aware functionalities into legacy electronic document systems. We give examples of LWOAD mechanisms taken from the case study and discuss their impact from the EUD perspective.

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