This paper focuses on the process of designing and implementing an online support community for patients. After anintroduction we describe a process for translating the socio-technical needs of cancer patients into systemrequirements as well as the development steps towards a functioning...

Virtual Communities (VCs) offer ubiquitous access to information andexchange possibilities for people in similar circumstances. This is especially valuable forpatients with chronic / life-threatening diseases as they exhibit strong needs forinformation and interaction. Grounded on the preceding...

Virtual Communities (VCs) offer ubiquitous access to information and exchange possibilities forpeople in similar situations. This is especially valuable for patients with chronic / life-threatening diseasesas they have strong needs for information and interaction with peers. It is seldom...

In the field of Open Innovation, virtual communities set up by companies in order to integrate customers into their innovation process are a new and promising instrument.[...]

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for overcoming interoperability issues and especially for extending the IT support of business processes to devices. It is based on the encapsulation of devices as services, and therefore on design principles of service oriented...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for enabling a continuous IT support of medical processes in hospitals. However, there is a lack of specific design patterns for realizing the concept in an effective and efficient way. This paper addresses this research gap by...

The purpose of this article is to show the importance of trust as a design aspect of context aware systems. We use anexample of a context aware application, identify user’s uncertainties and follow Muir’s [1] logic of a trust network toshow the relevant trust relations. Based on these...