Talk:Computer-supported collaboration

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Someone should dig through acm.org/cscw2004 and make the list of subfields, applications, research questions, a lot more robust. The call for participation frames the field as follows:

"...technology that affect groups, organizations communities and societies. Although work is an important area of focus for the conference - the conference has traditionally focused on such topics as the use of email, chat, voicemail and videoconferencing in supporting people's work activities and working relationships - technology is increasingly supporting a wide range of recreational and social activities. As consumer markets continue to expand, more and more people are able to connect online and we are moving toward a Computer Supported Cooperative World. Appropriate topic areas for CSCW 2004 therefore include all contexts in which technology is used to mediate human activities such as communication, coordination, cooperation, competition, entertainment, games, art, and music."

The current article barely links to computer-mediated communication. That needs to be better distinguished. They also mention "coordination and communication technologies" including:

"Innovations and experiences with Intranets, the Internet, WWW"

"Innovative installations: CSCW and the arts"

"Innovative technologies and architectures to support group activity, awareness and telepresence

"Social and organizational effects of introducing technologies"

"Theoretical aspects of coordination and communication"

"Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative practices"

"Ethnographic and case studies of work practice"

"Working with and through collections of heterogeneous technologies"

"Emerging issues for global systems"

Also there ought to be a link to every person who has every given a plenary address at any CSCW conference in this article. Although, silly buzzphrases like Open Source Society and Hacking the Law can be left out. Such plenary titles are just embarassing though they do illustrate a certain naive belief that by changing a bunch of lines of code, people can change law, politics, and culture.

Hope springs eternal.

[edit] Computability

It is reasonable to imagine that such a system may be capable of solving entire classes of problem that cannot be solved by classical symbol-processing systems that can be mapped to "Turing machines."

This bizarre claim is totally unsubstantiated and should be removed. Leibniz 20:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CSCW renaming/vocabulary

In my eyes the existing version is not very well in line with CSCW research. In General, it would be nice to work with references to existing research literature when explaining CSCW (or any other scientific discipline's) vocabulary. Some other concerns:

- I wonder why CSC has been chosen as a main subject while all conferences/journals use CSCW as the discipline's reference term.

- I am pretty sure that the CMC people would object the notion of being a subdiscipline of CSC/CSCW. Occasionally there may be communication that does not imply collaboration...