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Work, Workspace, and the Workspace Portal

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Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind (CT 2001)

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The workspace portals aim to provide the knowledge worker with access to all the information they need. This paper identifies social and technological requirements that are required to make the technology inclusive rather than exclusive. In discussing these requirements problems are identified, issues explored and solutions are suggested. This paper discusses how these issues are being addressed within the commercial context of the research and development activity of a software company.

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  1. Active Intranet plc, Vanderbilt Court, 5 Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, HG1 1EQ, UK

    Richard Brophy

  2. Gemisis, University of Salford, Technology House, Lissadel Street, Salford, M6 6AP, UK

    Will Venters

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  1. The Empirical Modeling Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Meurig Beynon

  2. Adaptive Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield Herts, AL10 9AB, UK

    Chrystopher L. Nehaniv  & Kerstin Dautenhahn  & 

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Brophy, R., Venters, W. (2001). Work, Workspace, and the Workspace Portal. In: Beynon, M., Nehaniv, C.L., Dautenhahn, K. (eds) Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind. CT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44617-6_37

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