Research

fjeld, morten, design, activity theory, augmented, reality, virtual, graspable, groupware, objectification, physical tools, virtual tools, co-located interaction, cooperation, planning, configuration, social, computer

An overview of the primary groupware applications, including both synchronous (video, chat, shared drawing) and asynchronous (email, workflow, newsgroups) groupware.

Elaboration of the primary issues in designing collaborative systems, including issues of group size and structure, floor control, privacy, and groupware adoption.

Groupware is software that helps groups of people work together. This introduction explains the goals and purposes of groupware, and some of the challenges involved.

An annotated bibliography of computer supported cooperative work. This bibliography is a part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection.

In Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) environments data and operations can be shared by users and/or they can have their own defined data and operations which may not be shared by other users. The notion of views in (object-oriented) database systems can be applied in CSCW for realizing such environments. In this paper we define two kinds of environments, namely, local and global, by exten...

How the integration of Information Technology with organizational strategy and structure is evolving businesses into virtual entities; ACM Crossroads 4-1