Honours Project: - Napier University

Gregory Huet
Honours Project
99034735 Dr. William Buchanan
The integration of communication and work gives an idea of the aim of this application: The
communication is created through the use of the electronic calendar to fix for example
guidelines for management of a project. The deixis is the reference to the item. In our case,
the deixis is the group or the community which are the reference to a common interest
(artefact). The feedthrough is the manipulation of a shared object which can be observed by
the other participants. So communication through the artefact can be as important as direct
communication between the participants.
1.2.4 Collaboration
With the term “Collaboration” being used so frequently, the term needs better definition. This
list should become a more specific description for different kinds of communication than the
generic term “collaboration”.
• Asynchronous - Similar to Email, creation/ work at own time and pace.
• Synchronous - Similar to Chat, creation/ work concurrently with others.
• Web Collaboration - Threaded Discussions
• Web Discussions - Comments in line or by document filtering by date, person, etc.
• Web Subscription and Notification - Subscribe to be notified of new changes or
additions.
• Online meetings for Workgroups - Synchronous communications between predefined
individuals who share information and counsel, similar to gathering for a meeting and
exchanging information, planning, and discussing. Communication is more balanced,
listener/speaker, writer/reader.
• Presentation Broadcast - Synchronous communications similar to a presentation
meeting. Communication is greater in one direction than in another, speaker, writer.
• Advanced Security - Who can access certain parts of the web, sub folder, etc.
• Check in / Check out - Reserve a page/file/folder so no one else can edit it, while
someone is editing.
• Workflow Reports - Users assign responsibility for creation or modification to a team
member, set up approval process in the publishing processes.
2. Concepts of Web marketing
The financial approach is very important in the development of a such project. All tools like
software and hardware are needed to be defined properly for the development and the
implementation processes. These tools are provided by Napier University, so it limits the cost
of development. For the commercial version, it is very important to take in consideration the
cost factor to create a product at a low cost, because the market changed to become a free
place where nobody wants to pay for a service.
2.1 Financial approach
2.1.1 Free use
A lot of web sites offer free services, like MSN 4 and Hotmail by Microsoft. These services are
very powerful and useful that does explain their popularity around the world. So, it is
4 MSN web site : http://www.msn.com visited on the 1/11/2000
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