CSCW research at GMD-FIT: from basic groupware to the social Web

GMD-FIT, the Institute for Applied Information Technology, is a research unit of GMD, Germany's National Research Center for Information Technology. It is located on GMD's Schloss Birlinghoven campus near Bonn. FIT is committed to inventing and designing innovative information technology which is really needed and wanted by users, is based on an understanding of human communication and human information processing, and is seamlessly integrated into the user environment. We pursue a vision of information technology moving• from personal computing to social computing,• from distributing information to helping utilize information,• from rigid systems to user-adaptive environments, and• from automation tools to enabling systems.The main application areas of FIT are office and home environments, and the area of medicine.The FIT institute is grouped in two departments: Cooperation Support Systems (CSCW) and Human- Computer Interaction (HCI). The following sections give an overview of our work in the CSCW group.

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