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The Unified Activity Management (UAM) project is defining a new organizing framework for supporting collaborative work around the concept of human activity by creating a Unified Activity representation, architecture, and user experience.
Activities are what we do everyday. An activity is any coherent set of actions that we take towards some end, be it specific or vague. Activities vary from small single-person tasks to large-scale collaborative projects. Business activities are the work of doing business. For example, consider a services company which bids on contracts by responding to RFPs (requests for proposals):
Effective business activities involve a combination of formal and informal work, often spread among a variety of people, tools, systems and service providers. An explicit activity object is needed to represent the collection of relationships that emerge between people, the artifacts they work on, their communication and coordination, the calendar, and the business processes they use to complete their work.
The UAM project includes:
- Studies to understand how people plan, manage, and share activities.
- Definition of an activity representation and semantics.
- Technical explorations of prototypes of architectures, clients, and activity services.
- Design explorations of activity-centric user experiences.
Product Impact
UAM works closely with the IBM Workplace development division and the Lotus brand.
Activity concepts are emerging in offerings such as Hannover under the Activity Centric Collaboration theme. The first such project was Activity Explorer, now in IBM Worklace 2.6, for which an Activity Patterns component is being developed.
More Information
UAM Value Propositions
| Guiding Principles
| Activity Semantics
Prototype
| Empirical Studies
| Activity Reuse
UAM Researchers | UAM Publications
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Last updated 1 Apr 2006
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