The importance of overhearing, and other ways of monitoring communicative behaviour not explicitly directed at oneself, has been illustrated in numerous ethnographic studies of computer-supported cooperative work. This paper is concerned with a particular form of monitoring. A &&peripheral participant'' is de"ned as someone who has a legitimate interest in monitoring a joint task (being carried...

The authors combine their experiences in three independent studies of informal learning in the contexts of the workplace, school and leisure. They uncover aspects of collaborative work, learning and play involving the use of different learning and teaching techniques, and supported by appropriations of the regular use of the applications. The importance of play, both for application learning an...

This paper presents the analysis of a number of existing Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) models and tools, and proposes a generic conceptual framework based on the strengths and commonalities of existing models. This generic framework is based on four key concepts, viz. activity, worker, information and service. This framework is illustrated with the modelling of some applications.

The aim of this survey was to gather data from both implant recipients and professionals on the ease of use of the Naída CI Q70 (Naída CI) sound processor from Advanced Bionics and on the usefulness of the new functions and features available. A secondary objective was to investigate fitting practices with the new processor. A comprehensive user satisfaction survey was conducted in a total of 1...

Healthcare professionals working with upper limb (UL) amputees more often than not, have the privilege of working with a generally healthy patient population. Traumatic loss of the upper limb in previously active and productive persons does not remove their intrinsic motivation for active participation in life. As they recover from the abrupt change in their functional status, this innate drive...

Gait maturation is a major developmental milestone in early childhood. In contrast, gait changes in the elderly usually signal the need for a change of lifestyle and possibly supported living. There is an indisputable need to acquire reference data in order to examine the variability in healthy people and mechanisms of gait maturation, malfunction and decline. Current decisions about the qualit...

Plastic user interfaces are intentionally developed to automatically adapt themselves to changes in the user’s working context. Although some Web single-user interactive systems already integrate some plastic capabilities, this research topic remains quasi-unexplored in the domain of Computer Supported Cooperative Work. This paper is centered on prototyping a plastic collaborative whiteboard, w...

On November 26, 2010, ISR Professor Gloria Mark presented the keynote talk at the Seventh National CCSCW (China Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) Conference, held in Nanjing, China. The talk was entitled “From the Silk Road to the Silicon Highway: Collaboration in a Global World.” With Chinese academics and industry researchers in attendance, Mark spoke on social and technical issues that ne...

Auf den weltweiten Wettbewerb reagieren Unternehmen heute mit weltweitem Vertrieb, Produktion, Forschung und Entwicklung. Das damit institutionalisierte weltweit vernetzte Arbeiten erfordert neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit. Die Daimler-Benz Forschung erarbeitet hierfür einen ganzheitlichen Lösungsansatz mit den Elementen Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Concurrent Engineering und High Perfor...

Despite impressive gains over the past three decades in the development and evaluation of empirically supported psychotherapies, such treatments are not used widely by front-line practicing clinicians. In an attempt to address this science-practice gap, efforts have turned recently to constructing lists of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) and disseminating information about these treatme...