Full Description
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is an interdisciplinary research area devoted to exploring the issues of designing computer-based systems that enhance the abilities to cooperate and integrate activities in an efficient and flexible manner for people in cooperative work situations.
This volume is a rigorous selection of papers that represent both practical and theoretical approaches to CSCW from many leading researchers in the field. As an interdisciplinary area of research, CSCW brings together widely disparate research traditions and perspectives from computer, human, organisational and design sciences. The papers selected reflect a variety of approaches and cultures in the field.
Audience: Of interest to a wide audience because of the huge practical impact of the issues and the interdisciplinary nature of the problems and solutions proposed. In particular: researchers and professionals in computing, sociology, cognitive science, human factors, and system design.
Contents
Distributed Social Worlds.- Work, Locales and Distributed Social Worlds.- POLITeam Bridging the Gap between Bonn and Berlin for and with the Users.- Fragmented Exchange: Disarticulation and the Need for Regionalized Communication Spaces.- Cooperation and Power.- Workflow from Within and Without: Technology and Cooperative Work on the Print Industry Shopfloor.- Cooperation and Power.- Collaborative Activities.- Reconsidering the Virtual Workplace: Flexible Support for Collaborative Activity.- Contact: Support for Distributed Cooperative Writing.- CSCW for Strategic Management in Swiss Enterprises: An Empirical Study.- CSCW Mechanisms I.- Medium versus Mechanism: Supporting Collaboration Through Customisation.- The Session Capture and Replay Paradigm for Asynchronous Collaboration.- Electronic Meetings I.- Virtual Reality Tele-Conferencing: Implementation and Experience.- Can the GestureCam be a Surrogate?.- The Use of Hypermedia in Group Problem Solving: An Evaluation of the DOLPHIN Electronic Meeting Room Environment.- CSCW Mechanisms II.- The Parting of the Ways: Divergence, Data Management and Collaborative Work.- A General Multi-User Undo/Redo Model.- Supporting Cooperative Awareness with Local Event Mechanisms: The GroupDesk System.- Electronic Meetings II.- Why Groupware Succeeds: Discretion or Mandate?.- MAJIC Videoconferencing System: Experiments, Evaluation and Improvement.- Multimedia Support of Collaboration in a Teleservice Team.- Workplace Studies.- What Are Workplace Studies For?.- Chalk and Cheese: BPR and Ethnomethodologically Informed Ethnography in CSCW.- ECSCW'95 Directory: Authors and Programme Committee Members.- Index of Authors.
