Project Mushroom:

Publications

	Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London.

Papers

• Healey, P.G.T. and Bryan-Kinns, N. (2000) Analysing Asynchronous Collaboration. HCI 2000, 14th Annual Conference of the British HCI Group, 5th - 8th September 2000, University of Sunderland.
• Healey, P.G.T. (1999) Accounting for Collaboration: Estimating Effort, Transparency and Coherence, 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium, Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems. November 5-7, 1999 Sea Crest Conference Center on Cape Cod North Falmouth, Massachusetts.
• Bryan-Kinns, N and Makwana, R. (1999) Understanding the Effort Involved in Collaboration and its Effects on Community Knowledge, ECSCW99: The 6th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Scandic Copenhagen Hotel, Copenhagen Denmark 12-16 September 1999.
• Makwana, R. and Bryan-Kinns, N (1999) Incorporating General Systems Theory to help Analyse and Understand a Collaborating Group's Dynamics ECSCW99: The 6th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Scandic Copenhagen Hotel, Copenhagen Denmark 12-16 September 1999.
• Tim Kindberg, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Ranjit Makwana (1999) Supporting the Shared Care of Diabetic Patients, in Group99, Arizona, April 1999.
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  This paper reports on a study of clinicians who care for diabetic patients, and on the design of an application to support their work. The clinicians' long-term activity is rooted in a series of private sessions with the patient. Clinicians exchange information but the timeliness, specificity and other salient features of the communication are often unsatisfactory. Problems consequently arise such as the omission or duplication of tests. We describe a conceptual framework to account for the effectiveness of knowledge-sharing in groups such as these, and use it to motivate an application aimed at improving the clinicians' levels of communication and coordination.
• Tim Kindberg (1998), Security for Network Places, Presented at the Distributed Systems Security Workshop, ECOOP98, Brussels, June 1998.
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  The concept of a network place is of a persistent environment in which a collection of users share information objects and communicate with one another. This paper discusses the security issues for network places (diabetic patient care in this case), including those of confidentiality and integrity of patient data.
• Tim Kindberg (1997), An Open Architecture for Replicated Shared Objects, presented at The PerDiS Workshop on Persistence and Distribution in Java, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1997. [ gzipped postscript (21K) and uncompressed postscript (70K), PDF ]
  Outlines an architecture to support object-sharing over the Internet. The design uses events as the main interaction mechanism for objects, and covers a framework for supporting replicated, persistent objects written in Java.
• Kindberg, T., Coulouris, G., Dollimore, J. and Heikkinen, J. (1996), Sharing Objects over the Internet: the Mushroom Approach. Proc. IEEE Global Internet, (London, Nov. 1996), 67-71.
  Describes the use of Mushroom for collaboratively developing Web sites, and outlines features of the Mushroom naming scheme and other system aspects.
• Tim Kindberg (1996), A Stake in Cyberspace, the Seventh ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Connemara, Eire, September 1996.
  Outlines the Mushroom model and system architecture.
• Tim Kindberg (1996), Mushroom: a framework for collaboration and interaction across the Internet, the International Workshop on CSCW and the Web, Sankt Augustin, Germany, February 1996. gzipped (35K) and uncompressed postscript (95K).

Technical reports

• Mpathy User Guide, December 1999. PDF (579K)
  Guide to the diabetic patient care management software developed on the Mushroom platform.
• Tim Kindberg (1998), On uncertainty: a study of diabetic patient care.
  [gzipped postscript (38K), uncompressed postscript (99K) PDF. ]
  Reports on a study of clinicians who care for diabetic patients. It concerns work that is loosely coupled much of the time, and seeks an epistemological approach to CSCW.
• Tim Kindberg (1998), An event-based platform for collaborative object-sharing,
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  Discusses the use of events as the main object-interaction mechanism and presents a software framework to provide collaborating distributed users with highly available, persistent shared objects written in Java.
• The Project Mushroom Manifesto, February 1996.
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• Notes on Concurrency Control in Groupware, 1995.

Last updated 7 December 2000.

George Coulouris