General talk about software patterns

[Till Schümmer <till.schuemmer AT FernUni-Hagen.de>]

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Dear colleagues,

we are pleased to inform you that John Wiley & Sons has now published
the book:

PATTERNS FOR COMPUTER-MEDIATED INTERACTION
by: Till Schuemmer and Stephan Lukosch
John Wiley & Sons 2007, 600 p., ISBN: 978-0470025611

With the advent of Web 2.0 applications, collaborative applications
become more interesting again. Examples of such applications are, e.g.,
multi-player games, interactive web sites, mobile phones, collaborative
learning systems, interactive workspaces and smart environments. In
these areas there is a shift of interest from human computer interaction
to computer-mediated interaction. The book presents patterns that help
practitioners and researchers to design collaborative applications
taking social and technical aspects into account and thereby borrowing
the wisdom of CSCW research of the last decades.

A companion web site is on-line at http://www.cmi-patterns.org/. We
invite you to share your experience with the patterns on this site,
contribute great examples of innovative collaborative systems, or even
extend the pattern collection with new patterns.

Yours sincerely,

Till Schuemmer and Stephan Lukosch

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Dr. Till Schuemmer

FernUniversitaet Hagen
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Cooperative Systems

Till.Schuemmer AT Fernuni-Hagen.de
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Learn more about patterns for
computer-mediated interaction:
http://www.cmi-patterns.org/
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