The emergence of network facilities and the increased availability of personal computer systems over the last decade has seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the fifth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area which embraces both the development of new technologies and an understanding of the relationship between technology and society. This volume contains a collection of papers that encompass activities in the field. It includes papers addressing distribute virtual environments, the use of the Internet, studies of work and emerging models, 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. The collection of papers presented here will appeal to both researchers and practitioners alike, as they combine an understanding of the nature of work with the possibilities offered by new technologies.
Conceptualizing and Designing for Cooperative Work 1(48) The Production of Order and the Order of Production 1(16) Graham Button (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge) Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester) Plans as Situated Action: An Activity Theory Approach to Workflow Systems 17(16) Jakob E. Bardram (University of Aarhus) Rethinking CSCW systems: The architecture of MILANO 33(16) Alessandra Agostini Giorgio De Michelis (University of Milano) Maria Antonietta Grasso (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) Shared Information Spaces 49(48) Effects of the amount of shared information on communication efficiency in side by side and remote help dialogues 49(16) Laurent Karsenty (Aramiihs-CNRS) MetaWeb: Bringing synchronous groupware to the World Wide Web 65(16) Jonathan Trevor Thomas Koch Gerd Woetzel (GMD-FIT) Constructing Common Information Spaces 81(16) Liam Bannon (University of Limerick) Susanne Bodker (University of Aarhus) Cooperation in Real and Virtual Worlds 97(44) Task Conflict and Language Differences: Opportunities for Videoconferencing 97(12) Gayna Williams (Microsoft Corporation) The Social Construction and Visualisation of a New Norwegian Offshore Installation 109(16) Vidar Hepso (Statoil Research Centre) Staging a Public Poetry Performance in a Collaborative Virtual Environment 125(16) Steve Benford Chris Greenhalgh Dave Snowdon Adrian Bullock (University of Nottingham) Formalisms and Mediation 141(48) On Distribution, Drift and the Electronic Medical Record: Some Tools for a Sociology of the Formal 141(16) Marc Berg (Maastricht University) Tailoring Cooperation Support through Mediators 157(16) Anja Syri (GMD-FIT) Doing Software Development: Occasions for Automation and Formalisation 173(16) Rebecca E. Grinter (Bell Labs) Objects, Spaces and Bodies 189(48) Introducing Third Party Objects into the Spatial Model of Interaction 189(16) Steve Benford Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham) Cooperative Work and Lived Cognition: A Taxonomy of Embodied Actions 205(16) Toni Robertson (University of New South Wales) Aether: An Awareness Engine for CSCW 221(16) Ovidiu Sandor Christian Bogdan (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) John Bowers (University of Manchester) Sharing: Information and Process 237(44) Providing Flexible Services for Managing Shared State in Collaborative Systems 237(16) Hyong Sop Shim Robert W. Hall Atul Prakash Farnam Jahanian (University of Michigan) Supporting Groupware Conventions through Contextual Awareness 253(16) Gloria Mark Ludwin Fuchs Markus Sohlenkamp (GMD-FIT) Supporting the Flow of Information Through Constellations of Interaction 269(12) Tony Salvador (Intel Corporation) Sara Bly (Sara Bly Consulting) The Influence of Devices and Environments 281(48) Supporting cooperative working using shared notebooks 281(16) Phil Turner (The MARI Group Ltd.) Susan Turner (University of Northumbria at Newcastle) Does `roomware matter? Investigating the role of personal and public information devices and their combination in meeting room collaboration 297(16) Norbert A. Streitz Petra Rexroth Torsten Holmer (GMD-IPSI) Analysing movement and world transitions in virtual reality teleconferencing 313(16) Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham) Cooperation and Access Coordination 329(48) Designing for Cooperation at a Radio Station 329(16) Finn Kensing Jesper Simonsen Keld Bodker (Roskilde University) A Group-based Authorization Model for Cooperative Systems 345(16) Klaas Sikkel (GMD-FIT) Gatherers of Information: The Mission Process at the International Monetary Fund 361(16) Richard H. R. Harper (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge) Index of Authors 377
