CrAc - Cooperative Activities

CrAc – Cooperative Activities

Contribution

Participation in research-project
Ideation & drafting of solutions
Academic research & analysis
Academic evaluation
Writing of publication
Prototype development
Semantic web / OWL prototype

What is CrAc?

CrAc aims for the development of interdisciplinary concepts allowing for dynamic, profile-based assignments of cooperative tasks to volunteers. The main focus of CrAc is to adapt and align the profiles of tasks and volunteers as well as the task assignments basing on a continuous assessment of the task fulfillment. These concepts will be developed as a prototype serves as a domain-independent framework to gain an adequate, efficient and balanced task assignment for volunteers and fosters formerly passive volunteers to participate and fulfill tasks.

Motivation

In Austria, more than three million people are engaged in non-profit organizations
Non-profit organizations provide services, which lead to economic value by indirect profitability
Common mindset and similar interests of actors are crucial for the fulfillment of the usually un-salaried, cooperative activities
Insufficient system support hampers an efficient, adequate and balanced task distribution
This situation decreases motivation for task fulfillment and quality of services

Aim

Following the “Design Research Approach” requirements are derived from CrAc project goals in cooperat-ion with all partners
An open-source software prototype allows efficient and adequate task distribution to motivate passive actors while unburdening others

Consortium

The CrAc consortium combines interdisciplinary expertise from industry and science with practical knowledge of non-profit organizations

Evaluation

Project results are incrementally evaluated by presentation to and solicitation of feedback from the partners
Applicability and sustainability of results are ensured in cooperation with the demonstrators on the basis of case studies
The CrAc outcome and scientific findings will be accessible via research publications and the CrAc WebSite