Support for work practice is better conceptualised as support for activity taking place in a
multidimensional space than as prescription of temporal task sequences. The notion of …

Computer science in the United States is hard pressed to show broad utility to help justify
billion dollar research programs and the value of educating well over 40,000 bachelor of …

The present report documents the research activities undertaken in Task 3.2 of the COMIC
project. The objective of the three years of research of Strand 3 is to develop a conceptual …

The user-centred philosophy of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) challenges
the established principles of many existing technologies. In turn, the development of CSCW …

Real-time groupware systems, where several users work simultaneously with the same
information, are notoriously difficult to construct. This thesis describes the design and …

This document is COMIC Deliverable D4. 1 “Requirements and metaphors of shared
interaction”. It presents results from the first year of COMIC on the topic of novel mechanisms …

This paper explores how the perspectives that we adopt in understanding how people work,
shape the technologies that we design to be part of that work. Using examples from our …

We suggest that a mechanism for facilitating the context-specificity of technologies in use
already exists in organizations, but is under-appreciated, under-utilized, and under …

We present a prototype human assistant system for space crew assessment and mission
management. Our system is based on case episodes from American and Russian space …