| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 472 pages) : illustrations |
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Computer supported cooperative work |
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Computer supported cooperative work.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of such coordination systems is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices for which these systems are developed is deficient, leaving systems develope |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-457) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Teams in the workplace -- Data processing.
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Computer engineering.
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Informatique.
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Computer engineering
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Teams in the workplace -- Data processing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781848000681 |
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1848000685 |
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