Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is
also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and …

The paper outlines an approach to CSCW systems design based on the concept of
'coordination mechanisms.'The concept of coordination mechanisms has been developed …

As hard as it may be for modern computer users to believe in this era of smartphones,
tablets, and touchscreens, early computers were not interactive. They were used to read files …

Crowdsourcing is not a new practice but it is a concept that has gained substantial attention
during recent disasters. Drawing from previous work in the crisis informatics, disaster …

[57] ABSTRACT A computer system and method provide networked com puter users with
information about which other users are task proximate to the user, thereby facilitating …

Significant progress has been made in awareness research in Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work over the last 25 years. This survey addresses awareness and effortless …

Despite the growth of interest in the field of CSCW, and the increasingly large number of
systems whichhave been developed, it is still the case that fewsystems have been adopted …

In defining a virtual team-working solution as with any new organisational form, success
relies not merely on the introduction and adoption of Information and Communication …

Process, workflow and groupware projects both in the commercial and research worlds have
each approached the problem of human communication and coordination with different sets …

This case study explores the nature of work for one group of systems administrators. Their
virtual work domain offered little support for collaboration and mechanisms in the physical …