lis590cscw

Week 3:

Method

I'm somewhat familiar with the CSCW proceedings, having to have to go through the material for a couple of papers in the past. I've attended just a handful of the conferences in the area, but some of the names were familiar, even from way back in 1996.

I started with names that I recognized - looking at topics that I either expected or was surprised to see their names alongside. The small amount of evidence, in the abstract and title, helped in constructing a narrative of how they got to where they are in their research trajectory.

Topics:

there are several functions to the papers - some as time capsules of existing tools - others as something with a bit longer shelf-life trying to advance the kind of work that is possible

From ACM CSCW

Identifying and analyzing multiple threads in computer-mediated and face-to-face conversations

Voice loops as cooperative aids in space shuttle mission control

Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems

Walking away from the desktop computer: distributed collaboration and mobility in a product design team

Getting others to get it right: an ethnography of design work in the fashion industry

Back to labor: returning to labor process discussions in the study of work

Thunderwire: a field study of an audio-only media space

Documents and professional practice: “bad” organisational reasons for “good” clinical records

Computer support for clinical practice: embedding andevolving protocols of care

Paperwork at 78kph

lowered fidelity - some of the cognitive features

threaded conversation

HF - voice loops in traffic/space op

relationships to physical spaces - what functions are supported well, and what metaphors break down? place vs. space

protocols in systems design

some implementation papers - case studies of working with the tools over time - methodology - emipirical, ethnographic, longitudinal - only a few with long direct quotes from participants

synthetic space - old / idiosyncratic term for virtual?

issues of awareness and disruption - impact studies

studies of work - non-computer heavy work

From JCSCW - 1995 + 1996

The coordination of work activities: Cooperation and conflict in a hospital context

Information needs in technical work settings and their implications for the design of computer tools

Coordination mechanisms: Towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design

Collaborative conceptual design: A large software project case study

From the social to the systematic

Why people do and don't wear active badges: A case study

Time, technology and groups: An integration

A model of social, emotional and symbolic aspects of computer-mediated communication within organizations

more of a focus on dealing with automation and automated agents in the journal - special issue? - also on theoretical concerns, like agreement and cooperation modeling...

Originators

Domestic

UC-Irvine - CS

Georgia Tech - CS

Michigan x 3 - work/CS

Ohio State - hf

CMU x 3 - hci

Calgary - CS

Boston - management

SUNY - CS

MIT - Media Lab

International

Nottingham x 2 - cs, work

Lancaster x 3 - cs

Manchester x 2 - psych

Oslo - informatics

RIT Stockholm - hci

Finland

Aarhus

Darmstadt x 2 - IS + GMD/FIT

Kyoto - IS

Queensland - CS

Corporate

Lotus

Sun

NASA

Apple x 2

RAND

PARC x 4 - PARC Europe x 1

Interval

AT&T

Big names - wholly subjective

Olson

Kraut

Dourish

Benford

Moran

Hudson

Gutwin

Greenberg