The user-centred philosophy of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) challenges the established principles of many existing technologies. In turn, the development of CSCW is dependent on the facilities offered by these technologies. It is therefore important to examine and understand this relationship. This talk will review key developments in CSCW and consider the potential impact of thes...

Business process via collaboration can benefit from the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community. The purpose of this paper is to provide a survey of CSCW research to examine the current IT-based collaboration techniques capable of supporting business processes. The CSCW field is categorised by the issues tackled by researchers. Each category is analysed based on past approaches and...

Groupware for cooperative work (CSCW) and for collaborative learning (CSCL) have many important commonalities as well as different requirements. By transforming a generic CSCW platform into an environment to support a particular vision of education as collaborative knowledge building, we saw how functionality had to be adopted, transformed and refined to meet the specific educational social set...

Collaborative work using groupware systems is a dynamic process in which many tasks, in different application domains, are carried out. Currently, one of the biggest challenges in the field of CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) research is to establish conceptual models which allow for the analysis of collaborative activities and their resulting products. In this article, we propose an ...

This panel session brings together a diverse group of people to explore the concept of organizational memory. Closely related to organizational learning, organizational memory is the property of organizations that provides continuity and learning. Organizational memory is not just the aggregate of the memories of the organization's members-it is a social phenomenon. The panel session explores t...

This paper attempts to build a bridge between the fields of Computer Supported Cooperative Work and learning in online communities. Of particular importance is their use of information and communication technologies. Each field has independently developed notions of inertia in the behaviour of users of these technologies. The notion of media stickiness is examined and related to that of imprint...

The paper has three parts. In the first part we apply the theory of commuting pairs of (pseudo) difference operators to the (formal) asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials: using purely geometrical arguments we show heuristically that the asymptotics, for large degrees, of orthogonal polynomial with respect to varying weights is intimately related to certain spinor bundles on a hyperelliptic alg...

First time, an analytical two-dimensional (2D) elasticity solution for arbitrarily supported axially functionally graded (FG) beam is developed. Linear gradation of the material property along the axis of the beam is considered. Using the strain displacement and constitutive relations, governing partial differential equations (PDEs) is obtained by employing Ressiner mixed var...

Good afternoon. First of all, I’d like to thank the two opponents, Professor Sharrock and Professor Engeström for their positive assessment of my dissertation as well as for the both critical and helpful comments they have offered. I guess that anybody who has the major part of his or her work for more than a decade evaluated by highly esteemed colleagues will look forward to reading their asse...

There are many human activities for which information about the geographical location where they take place is of paramount importance. In the last years there has been increasing interest in the combination of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) and geographical information. In this paper we analyze the concepts and elements of CSCW that are most relevant to geocollaboration. We defin...