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	I am working in the research division of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW →) in Fraunhofer FIT ( → ), the Institute for Applied Information Technology of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ( → ).   Fraunhofer FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany woflgang.graether(at)fit.fraunhofer.de
Networking	Top
	Meet me in Aachen - UMIC building at RWTH Aachen University, 26 February 2010 UMIC Workshop on Future Mobile Applications ( → ).
	Meet me in Bonn - main building of the University of Bonn, 16-18 September 2009 mobileHCI09 conference ( → ).
	Meet me in Bonn - Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, 1 September 2009 BSCW-Forum 2009 ( → ).
	Meet me in Leiden - The Netherlands, 23-24 June 2009 15th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising ( → ).
	XING ( → ) Linkedin ( → ) Wayn ( → )
Research Projects	Top
	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 ( → ).
	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.
	The goal of the lab is the development of a CommunityWare solution for B-IT ( → ) students. Based on a requirement analysis, the platform component (user-registration, interest profiles, communication forums, visualization of community-activities, etc. ) will be specified. This is followed by the realization of the components which can be based on existing software components. The lab work will be structured in working-groups. Each group will be responsible for one component of the platform.
	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 ( → ).
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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