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	I am working in the research department of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW →) in Fraunhofer FIT (fb →), the Institute for Applied Information Technology of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ( → ).   Fraunhofer FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany wolfgang.greather(at)fit.fraunhofer.de
Networking	Top
	Meet me virtually - Ecole des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, 5 February 2013, talk on cooperation systems including presentations of EU-project VENIS ( → ) and Expedition Unternehmen ( fb → ).
	Meet me in Ilmenau - TU Ilmenau, 8 December 2011, Gastvortrag am Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Vorlesung Digitale Kommunikation ( → ).
	Meet me in Bonn - Villa Hammerschmidt, 21 October 2011, Auftaktveranstaltung Bonn Realis: Bonn Research Alliance of Innovative Information Systems in International Quality Food Chain and Crisis Communication.
	Meet me in Rome - Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA, 12-14 October 2011, kick-off for EU project 'Virtual Enterprises by Networked Interoperability Services' ( → ).
	Meet me in Oestrich-Winkel - Campus der European Business School, 21-23 September 2011, 22st EBS Symposium ( → ).
	XING ( → ) Facebook ( → ) Linkedin ( → ) Wayn ( → )
Research Projects	Top
	Expedition Unternehmen: Social Media - Herausforderung und Chancen für den Mittelstand ( fb → ).
	VENIS: Virtual Enterprises by Networked Interoperability Services ( → ).
	MobileACcess: Mobile and Cooperative Communication Environment for Secure Internet Services ( → ). Fraunhofer FIT develops a mobile application framework and innovative social services for mobile users ( → ). The project is partly funded by IKT.NRW and Ziel2.NRW programme ( → ) of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
	The SAGE project aims at supporting self-organized cooperative task management for the coordination of distributed software development processes. The project is partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( → ).
	Broadband for Barefoot Bankers (B4BB) is an 18-month programme partly funded by the European Commission to introduce selected ICT tools in grassroots MFIs and promote "IT & Microfinance" public-private partnership through Euro-Chinese seminars ( → ).
	Virtual communities come close to the fundamental vision underlying the world-wide Web, creating information through cooperation and interaction among the community's members. The FIT community toolbar adds powerful functionality for communication and cooperation to Web portals, thus helping active virtual communities to start and flourish. Recently, we added Community2Go, a Web interface for small-screen devices. It makes the toolbar's functionality accessible on PDAs and smartphones and is highly customizable.
	The WiKo project improves cooperative knowledge management for knowledge-intensive services. Specifically, WiKo designs and develops, tests and evaluates a platform for cooperative online consultancy. The WiKo platform provides services that make online consultancy as rich as real-world consultancy. Consultants and clients are regarded as a community that collaboratively collects, structures, and maintains a shared knowledge base and keeps its members informed about the activities of others.
	Smartmaps provides users with an overview of activities in shared information spaces like shared file systems, Web sites, or shared workspaces in a treemap. The treemap is constructed from the shared artifacts, links from the Smartmap to the artifacts are established, and actions on artifacts result in color coding of the respective part of the Smartmap. This presentation of activity enables activity-based navigation and helps in becoming aware of potential collaborators and advice giving experts ( → ).
	POLAR uses RFID technology to support group awareness. Location data of a community of co-located workers on a certain floor in a building is collected and used to derive abstract online representations, which portray individuals as well as groups and provide a context for the group members' own activity.
Student Projects	Top
	SS 2013: CSCW Experience Lab: memetrekker, collaborative checklist, models, LC Suite SS 2012: CSCW Experience Lab: Lightweight Collaboration Suite SS 2011: CSCW Experience Lab SS 2010: Development of cooperative applications for iPhone and MS Surface SS 2009: Developing mobile groupware using multi-touch devices e.g. iPhone SS 2008: CSCW in Practice SS 2007: Development of a social meeting point SS 2006: Development of a community platform
	Niloofar Dezfuli. Exploring tasks with interactive visualization. Master thesis, RWTH Aachen, 2009. Johanna Krichling. Optimierung der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion beim Taskmangement-System SAGE. Diploma thesis, Universität Koblenz-Landau, 2008. Yao Wang. Dynamic awareness for shared workspaces. Master thesis, RWTH Aachen, 2006.
Selected Publications	Top
	Y. Wang, W. Gräther, W. Prinz. Suitable Notification Intensity: the Dynamic Awareness System. In Proceedings of GROUP'07 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work. ACM Press, 2007, pp. 99-106.
	S. Braun, W. Gräther. Mobile Support for Communities of Interest: Design and Implementation of Community2Go. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pp. 9-16. Research Publishing, Singapore, 2007.
	S. Kolvenbach, W. Gräther, K. Klöckner. A Toolbar for Efficient Interaction in Online Communities. In Proceedings of 31th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2005, pp. 483-490.
	W. Prinz, U. Pankoke-Babatz, W. Gräther, T. Gross, S. Kolvenbach, L. Schäfer. Presenting Activity Information in an Inhabited Information Space. In D. Snowdon, E. Churchill, E. Frécon, eds., Inhabited Information Spaces: Living with your Data. Springer-Verlag, London, 2004, pp. 181-208.
	T. Gross, W. Wirsam, W. Gräther. AwarenessMaps: Visualising Awareness in Shared Workspaces. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2003. ACM Press, N.Y., 2003, pp. 784-785.
	W. Gräther, W. Prinz. Visualizing Activity in Shared Information Spaces. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, Vol. 2. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 2003, pp. 1096-1100.
	W. Gräther, W. Prinz. The Social Web Cockpit: Support for Virtual Communities. In Proceedings of GROUP'01 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work. ACM Press, 2001, pp. 252-259.
	F. Gebhardt, A. Voß, W. Gräther, B. Schmidt-Belz. Reasoning with complex cases. Kluwer, Boston, 264 pages. 1997.
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