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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)"”.
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INTROSPECT: A meta-level specification framework for dynamic, evolvable collaboration support
… years has been given to the research field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Although a relatively young research domain, CSCW includes a large, multi-disciplinary research community with individuals from both computer science and social science related fields. A fundamental …
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How Private is Private?: Effects of Degree of Information Sharing on Group Ideation
Many Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) applications go to great lengths to maximize transparency by making available participants\' actions and respective application states to all others in real-time. Designers might intend to enhance coordination through increased transparency, but what …
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An Examination of Presence and Engagement in Video Conferencing Systems and Virtual Environments
… explores the use of web-based XR platforms in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) as an alternative to contemporary video conferencing tools. We conducted a user study with 15 subjects to evaluate web-based XR platforms (Mozilla Hubs) with video conferencing (Zoom) and examined subject …
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Evaluation of the influence of personality types on performance of shared tasks in a collaborative environment
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is an area of computing that has been receiving much attention in recent years. Developments in groupware technology, such as MERL’s Diamondtouch and Microsoft’s Surface, have presented us with new, challenging and exciting ways to carry out group tasks. …
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A model-based approach to construction of integrated internet CSCW systems
… provide ubiquitous infrastructure for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) applications, many of which share similar fundamental requirements for coordination, collaboration and information management services. However, there is a lack of structured architectural support for …
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The effect of voice input on information exchange in computer supported asynchronous group communication
Computer support for group communication in the business environment is examined. Study of group activities in videotaped business meetings identified information exchange as the most frequent communication task. Existing computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) systems for group communication …
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Supporting Computer-Mediated Collaboration through User Customized Agents
… The areas surveyed were Agents, Online Help, Computer Supported Cooperative Work(CSCW) and Awareness in CSCW. Based on the review, a human subject experiment was conducted. The study investigated whether the style of agent advisory interface improved the performance of group members. There …
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Providing lightweight telepresence in mobile communication to enhance collaborative living
Two decades of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research has addressed how people work in groups and the role technology plays in the workplace. This body of work has resulted in a myriad of deployed technologies with underlying theories and evaluations. It is our hypothesis that similar …
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A Comparative Analysis of Style of User Interface Look and Feel in a Synchronous Computer Supported Cooperative Work Environment
… has an effect on the usability of a synchronous computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) environment for delivering Internet-based collaborative content. The problem motivating this study is that people who are located in different places need to be able to communicate with one another. One way …
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Effects of Technological Support on Decision Making Performance of Distributed Groups
… reduce group satisfaction. A richer taxonomy for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems is proposed whereby three orthogonal dimensions of group support are defined. These three dimensions of group support are: Communication support, decision support, and presence support. This new …
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The design of a protocol for collaboration in a distributed repository - Nomad
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is the study of how people use technology, with relation to hardware and software, to work together in shared time and space. Mobile office environments are becoming commonplace. Workers form virtual online communities on a global scale and use groupware …
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Managing mobility in practice : empirical studies of the everyday practices and technology use of film and television freelancers
Researchers in the fields of human computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) have increasingly sought to understand the role that mobility takes in shaping people’s actions and interactions via technologies. This thesis contributes to this endeavour by exploring the …
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Supporting learning-in-use : Some applications of activity theory to the analysis and design of ICT-enabled collaborative work and learning
… to the analysis and design of collaborative work and learning processes either partially or wholly enabled by the use of information and communication technology (ICT). Activity theory (AT) is a monistic, materialistic psychological meta-theory comprising several distinct strands of …
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Social collaboration for corporate innovation management
… media, like for instance the mass-scale networking of users of different self-portrayal and interaction platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or Xing, or the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ effect for large-scale idea platforms or as a marketing tool to reach target groups with dedicated messages.The …
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Micro-Coordination: Looking into the details of face-to-face coordination
… highly intricate coordinative actions. In this work, I look at how people coordinate joint activities at the moment of interaction and aim to unveil a range of coordinative issues, using "methodologies and approaches that fundamentally question the mainstream frameworks that define what counts …
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A human-like perceptual model for intelligent virtual agents = Modelo de percepción para agentes virtuales inteligentes
… one of the most successful awareness models in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), called the Spatial Model of Interaction (SMI), which manages awareness in CoUaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) through a set of key concepts. This perceptual model extends the key concepts of the SMI …
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Mobile Collaborative Virtual Environments: A Paradigm Shift from Desktop to Mobile Online Communities
… can be used anywhere and at any time. A working prototype is then presented that has been developed to supplement an existing desktop-based online virtual community. The prototype illustrates a generic, extensible and platform-independent architecture for translating a desktop …
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Facilitating collaboration: exploring a socio-technical approach to the design of a collaboratory for Library and Information Science
… of LIS; developing requirements and designing a working prototype collaboratory; and evaluating how the prototype collaboratory was perceived by LIS professionals. Overall, the results show that whereas the benefits of an LIS collaboratory reported by the study participants focused on the greater …