CSCW as a field has been concerned since its early days with healthcare, studying how
healthcare work is collaboratively and practically achieved and designing systems to …

An understanding of the ways in which work coordination is achieved in practice is essential
to the development of effective CSCW technologies. However, previous studies are limited …

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
have long studied how technology can support material and relational aspects of care work …

Many information systems have failed when deployed into complex health-care settings. We
believe that one cause of these failures is the difficulty in systematically accounting for the …

Healthcare organizations are often organized in a modular, loosely coupled fashion where
separate and semi-autonomous work units specialize in different areas of care delivery. This …

The scope of CSCW, its focus on work, has been a topic of sporadic debate for many years—
indeed, from the very beginning in the late 1980s. But in recent years the issue has become …

While there is no question that workplace studies play a prominent role in Computer
Supported Cooperative Work, the exact nature of this role has been a subject of much …

This paper attempts to provide a relational understanding of the generative power of
information technologies: an understanding that sees information technologies as …

In recent years collaborative working has moved from being an optional extra of public
service practice to being a core competency for individuals and teams. Has this led to better …

Successful collaboration in health care teams can be attributed to numerous elements,
including processes at work in interpersonal relationships within the team (the interactional …