The key challenge for the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community is
how best to understand work for the purposes of design, and how best to design systems for …

The CSCW community is reliant upon technology-centric models of groupware and
collaboration that frame how we examine and design for cooperative work. This paper both …

Abstract The design of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems involves a
variety of disciplinary approaches, drawing as much on sociological and psychological …

We argue there is still much confusion about what is meant by cooperative work, and
therefore what is meant by CSCW. It does not arise simply where more than one person is …

The past decade has seen the development of a perspective holding that technology is
socially constructed. This paper examines the social construction of one group of …

This workshop aims to advance our knowledge of how CSCW technologies can be better
aligned with grassroots politics of collaboration. What politics are inherent in CSCW tools …

This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed
the" great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of social …

The history of this special issue of the CSCW Journal goes back to 1997 and a book entitled
''Social Science, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great …

Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is an interdisciplinary research area
concerned with developing computing technologies that facilitate, mediate, or regulate …

In the mid-1980s, when most hands-on computer use was still confined to one person and
one computer, a group comprising social scientists and technologists began convening …