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Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices: Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Kjeld Schmidt
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Description for Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices: Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Hardcover. Information technology has for decades been used for organisational purposes such as accounting, but is increasingly being applied to the activities of multiple users in complex professional environments. This book covers the latest systems design parameters. Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Num Pages: 488 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 880.
Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of such coordination systems is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices for which these systems are developed is deficient, leaving systems developers and software engineers to base their designs on commonsensical requirements analyses. The research ... Read more
Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of such coordination systems is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices for which these systems are developed is deficient, leaving systems developers and software engineers to base their designs on commonsensical requirements analyses. The research ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Number of pages
460
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Condition
New
Weight
879g
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848000674
SKU
V9781848000674
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99-15
Reviews for Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices: Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
From the reviews: “A book dealing with the history of CSCW and technological development … . This is a valuable and informative piece of work. … this book contributes with a number of very interesting and thought-provoking discussions that force the reader to reflect and examine one’s own position. … I very much appreciate the extensive work that Schmidt ... Read more