Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper
proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries …

In this dynamic review and synthesis of empirical research and theoretical discussion of
design as cognitive activity, Willemien Visser reconciles and integrates the classical view of …

The simultaneous evolution of personal computing tools and networks has focused attention
on the notion of harnessing computer technology to assist in human collaboration on group …

How can we understand why a bank teller has different needs for a user interface than those
of casual users of a machine teller, or why a graphic designer needs a different user …

This paper investigates an important, yet under-researched topic in CSCW, namely shared,
or common, information spaces. Precisely what is meant by this term, however, is not always …

We propose a novel approach to human interaction with artificial intelligence systems (HAII),
alternative to the mainstream dyadic one where humans and AI are seen as interacting …

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 …

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 …

We use the term requirements to denote what are often called functional requirements.
Requirements are located in the environment, which is distinguished from the machine to be …

Proceedings of the 1997 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work: Of maps
and scriptsâ•flthe status of formal c Page 1 Of maps and scripts The status of formal constructs …