ECSCW 2001

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Cooperation in massively distributed information spaces

   • Olav W. Bertelsen, Susanne Bødker

   Pages 1-17

3. Adaptability of Classification Schemes in Cooperation: what does it mean?

   • Carla Simone, Marcello Sarini

   Pages 19-38

4. Finding Patterns in the Fieldwork

   • David Martin, Tom Rodden, Mark Rouncefield, Ian Sommerville, Stephen Viller

   Pages 39-58

5. Team Automata for Spatial Access Control

   • Maurice H. ter Beek, Clarence A. Ellis, Jetty Kleijn, Grzegorz Rozenberg

   Pages 59-77

6. Supporting distributed software development by modes of collaboration

   • Till Schümmer, Jörg M. Haake

   Pages 79-98

7. Flexible Support for Application-Sharing Architecture

   • Goopeel Chung, Prasun Dewan

   Pages 99-118

8. Creating Coherent Environments for Collaboration

   • Christian Heath, Paul Luff, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Keiichi Yamazaki, Shinya Oyama

   Pages 119-138

9. Spaces of Practice

   • Monika Büscher, Preben Mogensen, Dan Shapiro

   Pages 139-158

10. Collaboratively Improvising Magic

    • Adam Drozd, John Bowers, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Mike Fraser

    Pages 159-178

11. Music Sharing as a Computer Supported Collaborative Application

    • Barry Brown, Abigail J. Sellen, Erik Geelhoed

    Pages 179-198

12. PolyLens: A Recommender System for Groups of Users

    • Mark O’Connor, Dan Cosley, Joseph A. Konstan, John Riedl

    Pages 199-218

13. y do tngrs luv 2 txt msg?

    • Rebecca E. Grinter, Margery A. Eldridge

    Pages 219-238

14. Coordinating Heterogeneous Work: Information and Representation in Medical Care

    • Madhu C. Reddy, Paul Dourish, Wanda Pratt

    Pages 239-258

15. Cognitive Properties of a Whiteboard: A Case Study in a Trauma Centre

    • Yan Xiao, Caterina Lasome, Jacqueline Moss, Colin F. Mackenzie, Samer Faraj

    Pages 259-278

16. On Finding Things Out: Situating Organisational Knowledge in CSCW

    • Kristina Groth, John Bowers

    Pages 279-298

17. The Effects of Network Delays on Group Work in Real-Time Groupware

    • Carl Gutwin

    Pages 299-318

18. Community Support and Identity Management

    • Michael Koch, Wolfgang Wörndl

    Pages 319-338

19. Reducing Interference in Single Display Groupware through Transparency

    • Ana Zanella, Saul Greenberg

    Pages 339-358

20. Harnessing Complexity in CSCW

    • Simon Kaplan, Lesley Seebeck

    Pages 359-378

Schmidt and Bannon (1992) introduced the concept of common information space by contrasting it with technical conceptions of shared information: Cooperative work is not facilitated simply by the provisioning of a shared database, but rather requires the active construction by the participants of a common information space where the meanings of the shared objects are debated and resolved, at least locally and temporarily. (Schmidt and Bannon, p. 22) A CIS, then, encompasses not only the information but also the practices by which actors establish its meaning for their collective work. These negotiated understandings of the information are as important as the availability of the information itself: The actors must attempt to jointly construct a common information space which goes beyond their individual personal information spaces. . . . The common information space is negotiated and established by the actors involved. (Schmidt and Bannon, p. 28) This is not to suggest that actors’ understandings of the information are identical; they are simply “common” enough to coordinate the work. People understand how the information is relevant for their own work. Therefore, individuals engaged in different activities will have different perspectives on the same information. The work of maintaining the common information space is the work that it takes to balance and accommodate these different perspectives. A “bug” report in software development is a simple example. Software developers and quality assurance personnel have access to the same bug report information. However, access to information is not sufficient to coordinate their work.

• Groupware
• automata
• communication
• complexity
• computer
• computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)
• control
• cooperation
• coordination
• identity
• identity management
• management
• music
• organization
• technology

• GMD-FIT, Germany

  Wolfgang Prinz, Volker Wulf

• RWTH Aachen, Germany

  Matthias Jarke

• University of Sussex, UK

  Yvonne Rogers

• Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

  Kjeld Schmidt

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