FieldWise: a mobile knowledge management architecture

ABSTRACT

The paper presents results of a research project that has aimed at developing a knowledge management architecture for mobile work domains. The architecture developed, called FieldWise, was based on fieldwork in two organisations and feedback from users of prototype systems. This paper describes the empirically grounded requirements of FieldWise, how these have been realised in the architecture, and how the architecture has been implemented in the news journalism domain. FieldWise adds to the field of CSCW by offering an empirically grounded architecture with a set of novel features that have not been previously reported in the literature.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Computers in other domains

    • Personal computers and PC applications

• Human-centered computing

  • Collaborative and social computing

• Information systems

  • Data management systems