A WE-CENTRIC SERVICE FOR MOBILE POLICE OFFICERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION IN AD-HOC GROUPS

Ronald van Eijk, Nicole de Koning, Marc Steen, Erik Reitsma

2007

Abstract

We-centric services are meant to stimulate and facilitate people to communicate and cooperate with others in dynamic or ad-hoc groups. Typically, a we-centric service provides hints and reasons to contact others, and, because these other people receive similar hints and reasons, stimulates and facilitates people to experience “we”. The paper describes the development and evaluation of one we-centric service prototype for police officers. We found that key-issues related to developing we-centric services are (1) finding the proper context elements and information sources to take into account when searching for relevant others, (2) presenting the people found and the context of those people in an appropriate way, i.e. with clear explanations and information on their current availability and (3) supporting reciprocal relationships.

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van Eijk R., de Koning N., Steen M. and Reitsma E. (2007). A WE-CENTRIC SERVICE FOR MOBILE POLICE OFFICERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION IN AD-HOC GROUPS . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-92-4, pages 61-67. DOI: 10.5220/0002353500610067


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Ronald van Eijk and Nicole de Koning and Marc Steen and Erik Reitsma},
title={A WE-CENTRIC SERVICE FOR MOBILE POLICE OFFICERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION IN AD-HOC GROUPS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={61-67},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002353500610067},
isbn={978-972-8865-92-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - A WE-CENTRIC SERVICE FOR MOBILE POLICE OFFICERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION IN AD-HOC GROUPS
SN - 978-972-8865-92-4
AU - van Eijk R.
AU - de Koning N.
AU - Steen M.
AU - Reitsma E.
PY - 2007
SP - 61
EP - 67
DO - 10.5220/0002353500610067