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ECSCW
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Plans as Situated Action: An Activity Theory Approach to Workflow Systems
: Within the community of CSCW the notion and nature of workflow systems as prescriptions of human work has been debated and criticised. Based on the work of Suchman (1987) the not...
Jakob Bardram
HICSS
2005
IEEE
162views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
An Agent-Based Approach to Study Virtual Learning Communities
This paper focuses on agent-based approach to study the relationship between the individual behavior of participants and the overall development of a virtual community, to help pe...
Yiwen Zhang, Mohan Tanniru
ECSCW
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Do Categories Have Politics? The Language/Action Perspective Reconsidered
: 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 wi...
Lucy A. Suchman
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Daphne R. Raban, Mihai Moldovan, Quentin Jones
CSCW
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Enlightening a co-located community with a semi-public notification system
This work seeks to strengthen interaction within a research community through a centrally-located physical device that presents online presence information in a semi-public space....
Goldie B. Terrell, D. Scott McCrickard