Electronic mail, email, is one of the most widespread computer applications today. While
email in general is very popular among its users, there are also drawbacks with email …

CSCW at large seems to be pursuing two diverging strategies: on one hand a strategy
aiming at coordination technologies that reduce the complexity of coordinating cooperative …

Coordination mechanisms (CMs) can be defined as any kind of computable construct whose
aim is to organize activities performed by a group of actors that are called to collaborate for …

This paper describes an activity designed for a site of special interest in which clues to its
history are gathered as visitors explore the site before interacting with two displays which …

The Language-Action Perspective was first introduced in the field of information systems (IS)
in 1980 by Flores and Ludlow [14] who argued that human beings are fundamentally …

Groupware is designed to provide opportunities for physically dispersed computer users to
co-operate in a manner akin to a face-to-face meeting. Little is understood, however, of the …

Most existing groupware products are either too passive or very intrusive. They either
passively wait for user action or actively interfere with normal workstation activity by intruding …

Oregon Graduate Institute reports a laboratory experiment thatcompared three different
communications modalities (face‐to‐face, audio‐only, and audio and video) across two co …

This paper considers a range of theoretical approaches to the understanding of
organisations and the implications these views have for the design of computer supported …

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 …