Main description:
This comprehensive introduction to the field represents the best of the published literature on groupware and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). The papers were chosen for their breadth of coverage of the field, their clarity of expression and presentation, their excellence in terms of technical innovation or behavioral insight, their historical significance, and their utility as sources for further reading. Taken as a whole, the papers and their introductions are a complete sourcebook to the field.
This book will be useful for computer professionals involved in the development or purchase of groupware technology as well as for researchers and managers. It should also serve as a valuable text for university courses on CSCW, groupware, and human-computer interaction.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to Computer-Supported Cooperative work
Chapter 2. The Adoption, Deployment, and Use of Groupware
Chapter 3. Human Behavior in Groups and Organizations
Chapter 4. Groupware Design and Evaluation Methodologies
Chapter 5. Case Studies of Cooperative Work
Chapter 6. Enabling Technologies and Theories
Chapter 7. Electronic Mail and Computer Conferencing
Chapter 8. Structured Messages, Agents and Workflows
Chapter 9. Cooperative Hypertext and Organizational Memory
Chapter 10. Desktop Conferencing
Chapter 11. System and Language Support for Desktop Conferencing
Chapter 12. Electronic Meeting and Decision Rooms
Chapter 13. Media Spaces
Chapter 14. The Future of Groupware for CSCW
This comprehensive introduction to the field represents the best of the published literature on groupware and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). The papers were chosen for their breadth of coverage of the field, their clarity of expression and presentation, their excellence in terms of technical innovation or behavioral insight, their historical significance, and their utility as sources for further reading. Taken as a whole, the papers and their introductions are a complete sourcebook to the field.
This book will be useful for computer professionals involved in the development or purchase of groupware technology as well as for researchers and managers. It should also serve as a valuable text for university courses on CSCW, groupware, and human-computer interaction.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to Computer-Supported Cooperative work
Chapter 2. The Adoption, Deployment, and Use of Groupware
Chapter 3. Human Behavior in Groups and Organizations
Chapter 4. Groupware Design and Evaluation Methodologies
Chapter 5. Case Studies of Cooperative Work
Chapter 6. Enabling Technologies and Theories
Chapter 7. Electronic Mail and Computer Conferencing
Chapter 8. Structured Messages, Agents and Workflows
Chapter 9. Cooperative Hypertext and Organizational Memory
Chapter 10. Desktop Conferencing
Chapter 11. System and Language Support for Desktop Conferencing
Chapter 12. Electronic Meeting and Decision Rooms
Chapter 13. Media Spaces
Chapter 14. The Future of Groupware for CSCW