ECSCW 2007

The emergence and widespread use of personal computers and network technologies have seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the tenth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area that embraces the development of new technologies grounded in actual cooperative practices.

These proceedings contain a collection of papers addressing novel interaction technologies for CSCW systems, new models and architectures for groupware systems, studies of communication and coordination among mobile actors, studies of cooperative work in complex settings, studies of groupware systems in actual use in real-world settings, and theories and techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The papers present emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches to the development of this important class of applications.

The work in this volume represents the best of the current research and practice within CSCW.

Klappentext

This volume presents the proceedings of the tenth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area that embraces the development of new technologies grounded in actual cooperative practices. These proceedings contain a collection of papers that reflects the breadth and depth of research activities in this field. The volume includes papers addressing novel interaction technologies for CSCW systems, new models and architectures for groupware systems, studies of communication and coordination among mobile actors, studies of cooperative work in complex settings, studies of groupware systems in actual use in real-world settings, and theories and techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The papers present emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches to the development of this important class of applications.

The work in this volume provides a snapshot of the current state of research and practice within CSCW. The collection of papers presented here will appeal to researchers and practitioners alike, as they combine an understanding of the nature of work with the possibilities offered by new technologies.

Inhalt
What did I miss? Visualizing the Past through video traces.- Social bookmarking and exploratory search.- Instrumental action: the timely exchange of implements during surgical operations.- Prior-to-request and request behaviors within elderly day care: Implications for developing service robots for use in multiparty settings.- Designing family photo displays.- The Awareness Network: To Whom Should I Display My Actions? And, Whose Actions Should I Monitor?.- and do it the usual way: fostering awareness of work conventions in document-mediated collaboration.- A safe space to vent: Conciliation and conflict in distributed teams.- Semi-synchronous conflict detection and resolution in asynchronous software development.- Tag-based metonymic search in an activity-centric aggregation service.- The distributed work of local action: Interaction amongst virtually collocated research teams.- Bringing round-robin signature to computer-mediated communication.- Asymmetrical collaboration in print shop-customer relationships.- Dressing up for school work: Supporting a collaborative environment with heterogeneous technologies.- Exploring cooperation through a binder: A context for IT tools in elderly care at home.- Common Information Spaces along the illness trajectories of chronic patients.- Gifts from friends and strangers: A study of mobile music sharing.- Making the home network at home: Digital housekeeping.- Behaviours and preferences when coordinating mediated interruptions: Social and system influence.- Health care categories have politics too: Unpacking the managerial agendas of electronic triage systems.- How-To pages: Informal systems of expertise sharing.- Seeing Ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW.- Cues to common knowledge.