Week 8: Concepts and Questions, Part 1

Now that we've had a chance to look at a variety of collaborative computing tools and environments, we'll begin discussion the underlying theories and questions that can be used to assess them. This week we'll talk about the growing impact of mobile and ubiquitous computing, the importance of presence and/or awareness, and the role of temporality in collaborative systems.

Week 8 Readings

The following readings are available in the Content section of myCourses:

Dourish, P. 2006. Re-space-ing place: "place" and "space" ten years on. InProceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 299-308. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180921

Schmidt, K. 2002. The Problem with 'Awareness': Introductory Remarks on 'Awareness in CSCW'. Comput. Supported Coop. Work 11, 3 (Nov. 2002), 285-298. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021272909573

Bardram, J. E. and Hansen, T. R. 2004. The AWARE architecture: supporting context-mediated social awareness in mobile cooperation. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 192-201. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1031607.1031639