Project description

The objective of this project is to design and evaluate new software paradigms for creating collaborative applications, with a focus on remote teaching applications. The project studies the use of component frameworks (based on Java Beans) in order to define generic situations within such applications. We developed a framework for the « get help » problem, i.e., the problem of a student requesting help from a tutor. In particular, we proposed a new framework for the run-time tailoring of the application through the distribution of new components that are automatically inserted at specific places within the application. Finally, we are currently designing an awareness framework for the automatic distribution of events within user groups, based on the interest of these groups.

Publications

Jakob Hummes, Arnd Kohrs, and Bernard Merialdo. Questionnaires: a framework using mobile code for component-based tele-exams. In Proceedings of IEEE 7th Intl. Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborating Enterprises (WET ICE), Stanford, CA, USA, June 1998. to be published.
Jakob Hummes, Arnd Kohrs, and Bernard Merialdo. Software components for cooperation: A solution for the ''get help'' problem. In F. Darses and P. Zarate, editors, COOP'98: Third International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Cannes, France, May 1998. INRIA.
Roland Alton-Scheidl, Rupert Schmutzer, Peter Paul Sint, and Tscherteu Gernot, editors. Voting, Rating, Annotation -- Web4Groups and other projects: approaches and first experiences, volume 104 of Schriftenreihe der Österreichischen Computer Gesellschaft. Oldenbourg Verlag, Wien, München, 1997.
Jakob Hummes and Bernard Merialdo. Object components for cooperation, a highly customizable tutoring-system with javabeans. In G. Henri ter Hofte and Hermen J. van der Lugt, editors, OOGP'97: The International Workshop on Object Oriented Groupware Platforms -- Advance Proceedings, part of ECSCW'97, pages 50-53, 75 AN Enschede, The Netherlands, September 1997. Telematics Research Center.
Jakob Hummes, Alain Karsenty, and Bernard Merialdo. Active Annotations in the Word Wide Web. In ECSCW'97 -- Conference Supplement, pages 51-52. Lancaster University, September 1997. Poster session.
Jakob Hummes, Alain Karsenty, and Bernard Merialdo. Active Annotations of Web Pages. In Alton-Scheidl et al. [Alton-Scheidl et al., 1997].
Jakob Hummes. Position paper for the CSCW'96 Workshop "CSCW and the Internet", Cambridge. ACM SIGOIS Bulletin, 17(3):15-16, December 1996.