Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices : Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) / by Kjeld Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Kjeld, author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Computer supported cooperative work 1431-1496

Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1431-1496

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Management information systems.

Computer science.

Database management.

Information storage and retrieval.

Application software.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Database Management.

Information Storage and Retrieval.

Computer Applications.

Local Subjects:

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Database Management.

Information Storage and Retrieval.

Computer Applications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 472 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2011.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2011.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

The development of computing technologies have from the very beginning been tightly interwoven with the development of cooperative work, but over the last couple of decades, computing technologies are increasingly being developed and used for coordinative purposes, as a means of regulating complex activities involving multiple professional actors, in factories and hospitals, in pharmaceutical laboratories and architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of the applications of these coordination technologies is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices, for which these coordination technologies are being developed, is quite deficient, leaving systems designers and software engineers to base their system designs on rudimentary technologies. The research reflected in this book addresses these very problems. The book contains a series of articles that has played an important role in establishing the conceptual foundations of the research area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). These articles are complemented by four new chapters in which CSCW's research program is subjected to critical examination and clarification.

Contents:

Preface

Part I: Progress Report

Cooperative work and coordinative practices

Part II: Surveying the connections

Riding a tiger, or CSCW(1991)

Taking CSCW seriously (1992)

The organisation of cooperative work (1994)

Coordination mechanisms (1996)

Of maps and scripts (1997)

The critical role of workplace studies in CSCW (2000)

The problem with 'awareness' (2002)

Remarks on the complexity of cooperative work (2002)

Ordering systems (2004)

Part III: CSCW reconsidered

Formation and Fragmentation

Frail foundations

Dispelling the mythology of computational artifacts

References

Index.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-1-84800-068-1

9781848000681

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