Many teams are now adopting shared repositories for their work. Such adoption is
paradoxical, however, as past research has repeatedly shown major co-organizational …

This paper reports a field study of work in a complex setting: an airport. The study was
largely focused on the Air Traffic Control activities carried out in the airport control tower, but …

To ease the retrieval of documents published on the Web, the documents should be
classified in a way that users find helpful and meaningful. This paper presents an approach …

Online communities support the well-being of their members by encouraging their social
identity formation. In the context of an online community, online activism in the form of …

Historically, builders of CSCW tools have not focused on the creation of trust among users
as a critical design goal. Yet, high levels of trust produce a number of benefits, including …

Big Data, e-Science and Internet of Things have contributed to increase the production,
processing and storage of data, changing the way people deal and live with data. Although …

Since the 1970s, the economic base of the Swedish government-especially its welfare state-
has been steadily eroded. When there was a major crisis in the early 1990s, traditional …

By drawing from semiology, epistemology and philosophical hermeneutics, we discuss the
way that computer systems, particularly systems used in collaborative work, represent …

This paper discusses how representation andinterpretation affect the degree and character
of awarenessafforded by computer systems: awareness of people and ofinformation …

The design and conceptualization of Common Information Spaces (CIS) has long been
recognized as an important research topic within CSCW. Informed by recent developments …