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The emergence of network facilities and the increased availability of personal computer systems over the last decade has seen a growing interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume contains the proceedings of the sixth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), a multi-disciplinary area which embraces both the development of new technologies and an understanding of the relationship between technology and society.
These proceedings present a collection of papers that encompass activities in the field, treating such subjects as virtual environments, uses of the Internet, studies of cooperative work and emerging models, studies of groupware systems in use in real-world settings, and theories and techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The articles feature emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches to the expansion of this important class of applications.
Audience: This work reflects the best of the current research and practice within CSCW. It will appeal to both researchers and practitioners whose work involves computer and information science, human-computer interaction, information systems, hypermedia, organisational/social informatics and social studies of science and technology.
List of contents
Taking the Work out of Workflow: Mechanisms for Document-Centered Collaboration.- The Manufaktur: Supporting Work Practice in (Landscape) Architecture.- Six Roles of Documents in Professionals' Work.- AREA: A Cross-Application Notification Service for Groupware.- Moving Out of the Meeting Room.- Activity Awareness: A Framework for Sharing Knowledge of People, Projects, and Places.- The Properties of Mixed Reality Boundaries.- The Adoption and Use of 'BABBLE': A Field Study of Chat in the Workplace.- Meeting at the Desktop: An Empirical Study of Virtually Collocated Teams.- Broadcasting On-Line Social Interaction as Inhabited Television.- A Groupware's Life.- The Network Communities of SeniorNet.- GestureLaser and GestureLaser Car.- Exploring Support for Knowledge Management in Mobile Work.- Dynamics in Wastewater Treatment:.- WebDAV.- Informing Collaborative Information Visualisation Through an Ethnography of Ambulance Control.- Moving document collections online: The evolution of a shared repository.- PSI: A Platform for Shared Interaction.- An Experiment in Interoperating Heterogeneous Collaborative Systems.- NESSIE: An Awareness Environment for Cooperative Settings.- Meaning-Making Across Remote Sites: How Delays in Transmission Affect Interaction.- Augmenting the Workaday World with Elvin.
