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CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Work rhythms: analyzing visualizations of awareness histories of distributed groups
We examined records of minute-by-minute computer activity coupled with information about the location of the activity, online calendar appointments, and e-mail activity. We presen...
James Begole, John C. Tang, Randall B. Smith, Nico...
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Collaboration as an Activity Coordinating with Pseudo-Collective Objects
A coalition is a collaborative pattern in which people must work together to accomplish a task, but where organizational constraints stand in the way of their making use of the co...
David Zager
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
NetWORKers and their Activity in Intensional Networks
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Articulating User Needs in Collaborative Design: Towards an Activity-Theoretical Approach
This paper analyses the collaborative design of a high-technology product, a neuromagnetometer used in the analysis of the activity of the human cortex. The producer, Neuromag Com...
Reijo Miettinen, Mervi Hasu
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Conventions and Commitments in Distributed CSCW Groups
Conventions are necessary to establish in any recurrent cooperative arrangement. In electronic work, they are important so as to regulate the use of shared objects. Based on empir...
Gloria Mark
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware
Activity theory is based on the concept of tools mediating between subjects and objects. In this theory, an individual's creative interaction with his or her surroundings can ...
Morten Fjeld, Kristina Lauche, Martin Bichsel, Fre...
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Information Systems Development as an Activity
Mikko Korpela, Anja Mursu, Hettie Abimbola Soriyan
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Activity Theory and System Design: A View from the Trenches
An activity theory model and a mediating artifacts hierarchy were employed to help identify the needs for tools for customer support engineers who documented solutions to customer...
Patricia Collins, Shilpa Shukla, David F. Redmiles