In their initial articulation of the direction of the CSCW field, scholars advanced an open-
ended agenda. This continuing commitment to open-ness to different contexts and …

In this book, Richard Harper uses the International Monetary Fund as a case study to show
how thinking differently about IT systems can dramatically improve the manageability and …

New approaches in the design of information technologies for work practices are drawing
upon theories from sociology, anthropology, and social philosophy. Under the labels of …

Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography introduces a
new'ethnographic'approach that will enable designers to create collaborative and interactive …

Collaborative information technologies have been claimed to enhance collaboration in
organizations, under certain conditions. This claim was found problematic in several …

This multi-disciplinary book develops three intertwined themes: the perspective of situated
action from cognitive science, a model of social context as a framework for inspiring artifact …

Human-computer interaction (HCI) investigators must consider the sequential nature of
interaction and must often weigh behavioral, cognitive, and social factors when studying and …

This paper reports on a field study of the procurement, implementation and use of a local
area network devoted to running CSCW-related applications in an organization within the …

There can be no doubt that in 1896 John Dewey was anticipating important aspects of what
we now know as activity theory.(Tolman & Pikkola, 1989, p. 46) I find myself these days as a …

This article considers current research in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW),
computer-mediated communication (CMC), and distributed artificial intelligence (DAl). These …