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 …

This book seeks to establish an interdisciplinary, applied social scientific model for
researchers and students that advocates a cooperative effort between machines and …

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 …

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 …

Over the last 10 years, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has identified a
base set of findings. These findings are taken almost as assumptions within the field. In …

Abstract This chapter surveys Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) research
and groupware development. In the 1980s, as computer and software vendor companies …

The research field Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is concerned with
understanding social interaction and the design, development, and evaluation of technical …

Publisher Summary Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) is the name of the
research area that studies the use of computing and communication technologies to support …

The design of computer applications is not solely a matter of constructing something
technical. The constitution of the design situation as well as the situations of use have many …