CrAc - Cooperative Activities
Non-profit organizations, open source communities or cooperations of companies are characterised through activities that participants mostly provide honorary. The research project CrAc developed a proof-of-concept prototype that supports the collaboration of protagonists in volunteer organizations.
Project Description
The collaboration in non-profit organizations, in open source communities or in cooperations of companies is characterised through a similar way of thinking and through comparable interests of the participants. In the majority of cases the completion of the tasks requires collaboration. Due to a responsibility assignment that mostly is uncoordinated and unbalanced, the task fulfillment takes place supoptimally. Potential and motivation of the participants are slowed down and the lacking technical support can result in a minimized effectiveness of the activities.
The aim of CrAc is the development of interdisciplinary concepts basing on the profile of the participants that allows a dynamic assignment of collaborative tasks. Profiles of tasks and participants as well as the responsibility assignment should be continuously adapted to the real conditions taking into account the evaluation of the task fulfillment. Thereby the effectiveness of volunteering should be increased and the creative potential within the volunteer organizations should be stimulated.
The concepts were prototypical implemented in the form of a software framework that is independent of a certain domain to attain a responsibility assignment that is efficient, adequate and balanced. Participants that acted passively up to now should be motivated to complete tasks and participants that are heavily involved should be relieved.
Project partners
The following companies and scientifical institutions are working together in the research and development project CrAc:
- JKU-Linz, Institut für Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW)
- JKU-Linz, Abteilung für Kooperative Informationssysteme (CIS)
- JKU, Institut für Organisation (ORG)
- FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH, Campus Hagenberg
- Kunstuniversität Linz, Abteilung für Zeitbasierte und Interaktive Medien
- X-Net Services GmbH
- blp GeoServices GmbH
- GTN - Global Training Network GmbH
- Ideenweberei OG
- Freie Waldorfschule Linz - Verein zur Förderung der Waldorfpädagogik
- Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz, Landesverband Oberösterreich
Key Data of the Project
Project start: November 2014
Project duration: 36 months
Funding framework: COIN - program "Cooperation and Networks"
The project has received funding from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in the national structural program COIN - 'Cooperation and Networks'.